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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3015 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a Federal firearms 

licensee from selling or delivering certain semiautomatic centerfire rifles 

to a person under 21 years of age, with exceptions for active duty 

military personnel and full-time law enforcement officers, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 7, 2021 

Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Mr. CLEAVER, Ms. DEGETTE, 

Mr. EVANS, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. LANGEVIN, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. 

NORTON, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, and 

Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a Federal 

firearms licensee from selling or delivering certain semiautomatic centerfire rifles to a person under 21 years 

of age, with exceptions for active duty military personnel 

and full-time law enforcement officers, 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 ‘‘Raise the Age Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSEE 

2 SELLING OR DELIVERING CERTAIN SEMI3 AUTOMATIC CENTERFIRE RIFLES TO A PER4 SON UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE, WITH EXCEP5 TIONS. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 922(b)(1) of title 18, 

7 United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 

8 ‘‘(1)(A) any firearm or ammunition to any indi9 vidual who the licensee knows or has reasonable 

10 cause to believe has not attained 18 years of age; 

11 ‘‘(B) any semiautomatic centerfire rifle that 

12 has, or has the capacity to accept, an ammunition 

13 feeding device with a capacity exceeding 5 rounds, to 

14 any individual who the licensee knows or has reason15 able cause to believe has not attained 21 years of 

16 age and is not a qualified individual; or 

17 ‘‘(C) if the firearm or ammunition is not a 

18 semiautomatic centerfire rifle described in subpara19 graph (B) and is other than a shotgun or rifle, or 

20 ammunition for a shotgun or rifle, to any individual 

21 who the licensee knows or has reasonable cause to 

22 believe has not attained 21 years of age;’’. 

23 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 922(c)(1) 

24 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘in the case of any 

25 firearm’’ and all that follows through ‘‘eighteen years or 

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1 matic centerfire rifle that has, or has the capacity to ac2 cept, an ammunition feeding device with a capacity exceed3 ing 5 rounds, I am at least 21 years of age or a qualified 

4 individual (as defined in section 921(a)(30) of title 18, 

5 United States Code), in the case of a firearm other than 

6 a semiautomatic centerfire rifle that has, or has the capac7 ity to accept, an ammunition feeding device with a capac8 ity exceeding 5 rounds, a shotgun or a rifle, I am at least 

9 21 years of age, or that, in the case of a shotgun or a 

10 rifle, I am at least 18 years of age’’. 

11 (c) QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL DEFINED.—Section 

12 921(a) of such title is amended by inserting after para13 graph (29) the following: 

14 ‘‘(30) The term ‘qualified individual’ means— 

15 ‘‘(A) a member of the Armed Forces on active 

16 duty; and 

17 ‘‘(B) a full-time employee of the United States, 

18 a State, or a political subdivision of a State who in 

19 the course of his or her official duties is authorized 

20 to carry a firearm. 

21 ‘‘(31) The term ‘ammunition feeding device’ means 

22 a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device, but 

23 does not include an attached tubular device which is only 

24 capable of operating with .22 caliber rimfire ammuni25 tion.’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. OPERATION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVES2 TIGATION’S PUBLIC ACCESS LINE. 

3 (a) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 

4 of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal 

5 Bureau of Investigation (in this section referred to as the 

6 ‘‘FBI’’) shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary 

7 of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 

8 House of Representatives a report regarding operation of 

9 the FBI’s public access line. 

10 (b) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The report required by 

11 subsection (a) shall, at a minimum, include the following: 

12 (1) A description of the protocols and proce13 dures in effect with respect to information-sharing 

14 between the public access line and the field offices 

15 of the FBI. 

16 (2) Recommendations for improving the proto17 cols and procedures to improve the information-shar18 ing. 

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