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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 5949 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to enhance the privacy of legal 

gun owners, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 12, 2023 

Mr. ROSENDALE (for himself, Mr. GOSAR, Ms. VAN DUYNE, Mr. MOORE of 

Alabama, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. BUCK, Mr. BRECHEEN, Mr. DUNCAN, and Mr. COLLINS) introduced the following bill 

OCTOBER 25, 2023 

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to enhance the 

privacy of legal gun owners, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Gun Own5 ers’ Privacy Act of 2023’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ENHANCEMENT OF PRIVACY OF LEGAL GUN OWN2 ERS. 

3 (a) DISPOSITION OF RECORDS.—Section 923(g) of 

4 title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 

5 end the following: 

6 ‘‘(8)(A) Nothing in this paragraph shall be inter7 preted to expand or restrict the authority of the Bureau 

8 of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to carry out 

9 any provision of this chapter. 

10 ‘‘(B)(i) A department, agency, or instrumentality of 

11 the Federal Government may not store any record or 

12 bound volume required under this chapter that is received 

13 by the department, agency, or instrumentality on or after 

14 the date of the enactment of this clause, unless the record 

15 or bound volume is needed in an ongoing bona fide crimi16 nal investigation or prosecution. 

17 ‘‘(ii) In the case of such a record or bound volume 

18 received by such a department, agency, or instrumentality 

19 before such date of enactment, the department, agency, 

20 or instrumentality shall destroy the record and any infor21 mation from the record or bound volume that the depart22 ment, agency, or instrumentality has stored, unless the 

23 record or bound volume is needed in an ongoing bona fide 

24 criminal investigation or prosecution. 

25 ‘‘(C) A department or agency of the Federal Govern26 ment may not acquire directly from a licensed importer, 


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1 licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer a record required 

2 to be maintained by the licensee under this chapter. On 

3 request of such a department or agency, the Attorney Gen4 eral may provide the department or agency, as the case 

5 may be, with such a record obtained by the Attorney Gen6 eral pursuant to this chapter.’’. 

7 (b) LIMITATION ON CONTENT OF REQUIRED RE8 PORTS AND RECORDS.— 

9 (1) MULTIPLE FIREARM SALES REPORTS.—Sec10 tion 923(g)(3)(A) of such title is amended by adding 

11 at the end the following: ‘‘The Attorney General may 

12 not require or authorize any personal identifying in13 formation to be included on the form.’’. 

14 (2) FIREARM TRANSACTION RECORDS.—Section 

15 926 of such title is amended by adding at the end 

16 the following: 

17 ‘‘(d) The Attorney General may not require or au18 thorize any personal identifying information of an indi19 vidual seeking to acquire a firearm to be included in any 

20 record required to be kept pursuant to this chapter.’’. 

21 (c) DEFINITION OF PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFOR22 MATION.—Section 921(a) of such title is amended by in23 serting after paragraph (30) the following: 

24 ‘‘(31) The term ‘personal identifying information’ 

25 means any representation of information that permits the 


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1 identity of an individual to whom the information applies 

2 to be reasonably inferred by either direct or indirect 

3 means, including information enabling the contacting of 

4 the individual.’’. 

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