I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6080 
To provide for the availability of personalized handguns from federally licensed 
firearms dealers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 
Mr. DESAULNIER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To provide for the availability of personalized handguns from 
federally licensed firearms dealers, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Modernizing Firearm 
Technology Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO THE AVAILABILITY 
OF PERSONALIZED HANDGUNS FROM FEDER-
ALLY LICENSED FIREARMS DEALERS. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—Section 923 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(m)(1) Each licensed dealer shall maintain a person-
alized handgun in the sales inventory of the licensed deal-
er, prominently display a personalized handgun at the lo-
cation specified on the license to deal in firearms issued 
to the licensed dealer under this chapter, and offer a per-
sonalized handgun for sale to members of the public who 
are not prohibited by law from possessing a handgun. 
‘‘(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a pawnbroker 
or a person who deals in only antique firearms.’’. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 921(a) of such title is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(36) PERSONALIZED HANDGUN.—The term ‘per-
sonalized handgun’ means a handgun that— 
‘‘(A) enables only an authorized user of the 
handgun to fire the handgun; and 
‘‘(B) was manufactured in such a manner that 
the firing restriction described in subparagraph 
(A)— 
‘‘(i) is incorporated into the design of the 
handgun; and 
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‘‘(ii) cannot be removed or deactivated by 
anyone other than such an authorized user. 
‘‘(37) AUTHORIZED USER.—The term ‘authorized 
user’, with respect to a handgun, means the lawful owner 
of the handgun and any individual authorized by the 
owner to use the handgun who is allowed to own, carry, 
or use a firearm in the State where the firearm is being 
used.’’. 
(c) PENALTIES FOR NONCOMPLIANCE.—Section 924 
of such title is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing; 
‘‘(q) PENALTIES RELATING
TO AVAILABILITY
OF 
PERSONALIZED FIREARMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(A) ESCALATING
PENALTIES.—In the 
case of a violation of section 923(m)(1) by a li-
censed dealer, the Attorney General shall, after 
notice and opportunity for hearing, impose such 
civil penalties as the Attorney General deems 
appropriate. 
‘‘(B) REVIEW.—An action of the Secretary 
under subparagraph (A) may be reviewed only 
as provided under section 923(f). 
‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES.—The imposi-
tion of a civil penalty under paragraph (1) shall not 
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preclude any administrative remedy that is otherwise 
available to the Secretary.’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on the date the National In-
stitute of Justice causes to be published in the Federal 
Register a certification at least 2 different models of per-
sonalized handguns (as defined in section 921(a)(36) of 
title 18, United States Code) are available commercially 
in sufficient quantities to enable licensed dealers (as de-
fined in paragraph (11) of such section) to comply with 
the amendments. The National Institute of Justice may 
not cause such a certification to be so published with re-
spect to a model of personalized handgun that does not 
fire at least as reliably as the average non-personalized 
handgun. 
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