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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 5209 

To require the Attorney General to make publicly available a list of federally 

licensed firearms dealers with a high number of short time-to-crime 

firearm traces, and to prohibit Federal departments and agencies from 

contracting with such dealers. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 

Mr. PADILLA (for himself, Ms. WARREN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. BOOKER, Ms. 

DUCKWORTH, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, and Mr. MURPHY) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 

Judiciary 

A BILL 

To require the Attorney General to make publicly available 

a list of federally licensed firearms dealers with a high 

number of short time-to-crime firearm traces, and to 

prohibit Federal departments and agencies from contracting with such dealers. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Hands Firearm 

5 Procurement Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FEDERAL GUN TRACING NOTIFICATIONS. 

2 Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment 

3 of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General, 

4 acting through the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, To5 bacco, Firearms, and Explosives, shall publish or make 

6 publicly available a list of covered firearms dealers. 

7 SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL CONTRACTS WITH CER8 TAIN FEDERAL FIREARMS DEALERS. 

9 (a) PROHIBITION.—A Federal agency may not enter 

10 into a contract with a licensed dealer that has been listed 

11 as a covered firearms dealer during the current calendar 

12 year or either of the preceding 2 calendar years. 

13 (b) WAIVER AUTHORITY.— 

14 (1) IN GENERAL.—Upon a request by the Sec15 retary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Se16 curity, the Attorney General may waive the applica17 bility of subsection (a) to a contract, to protect the 

18 national security of the United States. 

19 (2) NOTICE.—The Attorney General shall im20 mediately notify the Chair and Ranking Minority 

21 Member of the Committee on the Judiciary of the 

22 House of Representatives and the Chair and Rank23 ing Minority Member of the Committee on the Judi24 ciary of the Senate of any waiver granted under 

25 paragraph (1). Notice under this paragraph may be 

26 submitted in classified form. 


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1 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect 

2 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 

3 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

4 In this Act: 

5 (1) COVERED FIREARMS DEALER.—The term 

6 ‘‘covered firearms dealer’’ means a licensed dealer 

7 with respect to whom, during not less than 2 of the 

8 3 calendar years before the publication of the appli9 cable list under section 2, the National Tracing Cen10 ter of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, 

11 and Explosives has traced to the firearms business 

12 of the licensed dealer not less than 25 firearms with 

13 a time-to-crime of not more than 3 years. 

14 (2) FEDERAL AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal 

15 agency’’ means a department, agency, office, or 

16 other establishment in the executive, legislative, or 

17 judicial branch of the Government of the United 

18 States. 

19 (3) FIREARM.—The term ‘‘firearm’’ has the 

20 meaning given that term in section 921(a) of title 

21 18, United States Code. 

22 (4) LICENSED DEALER.—The term ‘‘licensed 

23 dealer’’ has the meaning given that term in section 

24 921(a) of title 18, United States Code. 


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1 (5) TIME-TO-CRIME.—The term ‘‘time-to2 crime’’ means, with respect to a firearm, the period 

3 between the date of the last known retail sale of the 

4 firearm and the date a law enforcement agency re5 covers the firearm as a result of an actual or sus6 pected purchase, use, or possession of the firearm in, 

7 or that constitutes, a crime. 

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