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                           FEBRUARY 14, 2019 
                                 
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                     RULES COMMITTEE PRINT 116-5

                TEXT OF H.R. 8, BIPARTISAN BACKGROUND 
                         CHECKS ACT OF 2019
                         
      [Showing the text of H.R. 8 as ordered reported by the 
                     Committee on the Judiciary]

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2     This Act may be cited as the ``Bipartisan Back

3 ground Checks Act of 2019''.

4 SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

5     The purpose of this Act is to utilize the current back

6 ground checks process in the United States to ensure indi-

7 viduals prohibited from gun possession are not able to ob-

8 tain firearms. 

9 SEC. 3. FIREARMS TRANSFERS.

10     Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is

11 amended--

12         (1) by striking subsection (s);

13         (2) by redesignating subsection (t) as sub-

14     section (s); and

15        (3) by inserting after subsection (s), as redesig-

16     nated, the following: 

17     ``(t)(1)(A) It shall be unlawful for any person who

18 is not a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or li-


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