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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3552 

To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide 

notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a 

background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 27, 2019 

Mr. CICILLINE (for himself, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. SIRES, Ms. HILL of California, Mr. LEVIN of 

Michigan, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. MUCARSEL-POWELL, Mr. 

DESAULNIER, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. NEGUSE, 

Mr. CASE, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. MENG, and Ms. BROWNLEY of California) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 

Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 

to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted 

by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, 

and for other purposes. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Unlawful Gun Buyer 

3 Alert Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES 

5 OF PROHIBITED PURCHASE OR ATTEMPTED 

6 PURCHASE OF A FIREARM. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the NICS Improvement 

8 Amendments Act of 2007 (34 U.S.C. 40911–40917) is 

9 amended by adding at the end the following: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 108. NOTIFICATION TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGEN11 CIES OF PROHIBITED PURCHASE OR AT12 TEMPTED PURCHASE OF A FIREARM. 

13 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a background 

14 check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Back15 ground Check System pursuant to the request of a li16 censed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer 

17 of firearms (as such terms are defined in section 921 of 

18 title 18, United States Code), which background check de19 termines that the receipt of a firearm by a person would 

20 violate subsection (g) or (n) of section 922 of such title, 

21 including any such case in which the determination is 

22 made after 3 business days have elapsed since the licensee 

23 contacted the System and a firearm has been transferred 

24 to that person, the System shall notify the law enforce25 ment agencies described in subsection (b) of this section. 


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1 ‘‘(b) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES DESCRIBED.— 

2 The law enforcement agencies described in this subsection 

3 are the law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction 

4 over the location from which the licensee contacted the 

5 system and the law enforcement agencies that have juris6 diction over the location of the residence of the person for 

7 which the background check was conducted, as follows: 

8 ‘‘(1) The field office of the Federal Bureau of 

9 Investigation. 

10 ‘‘(2) The local law enforcement agency. 

11 ‘‘(3) The State law enforcement agency.’’. 

12 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

13 of such Act (34 U.S.C. 10101 note) is amended by insert14 ing after the item relating to section 107 the following: 

‘‘108. Notification to law enforcement agencies of prohibited purchase or attempted purchase of a firearm.’’. 

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