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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6006 
To amend section 923 of title 18, United States Code, to require an electronic, 
searchable database of the importation, production, shipment, receipt, 
sale, or other disposition of firearms. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2020 
Mr. PASCRELL (for himself and Mr. KING of New York) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend section 923 of title 18, United States Code, to 
require an electronic, searchable database of the importa-
tion, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposi-
tion of firearms. 
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 ‘‘Crime Gun Tracing 
Modernization Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 2. ELECTRONIC, SEARCHABLE DATABASES. 
Section 923(g) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(8)(A) In this paragraph, the term ‘foreign in-
telligence information’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Sur-
veillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801). 
‘‘(B) Not later than 3 years after the date of 
enactment of this paragraph, the National Tracing 
Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms 
and Explosives shall establish and maintain elec-
tronic, searchable databases of all records within its 
possession of the importation, production, shipment, 
receipt, sale, or other disposition of firearms re-
quired to be submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms and Explosives by persons licensed 
under this chapter. 
‘‘(C) Each licensee under this chapter may pro-
vide the National Tracing Center with electronic ac-
cess, consistent with the requirements of this para-
graph, to all records within the licensee’s possession 
that are required to be kept under this chapter. 
‘‘(D) A licensee may voluntarily relinquish pos-
session of any non-electronic record required to be 
kept under this chapter to the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 
‘‘(E) The National Tracing Center— 
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‘‘(i) shall have remote access to and may 
query, search, or otherwise access the electronic 
databases described in this paragraph; and 
‘‘(ii) may, with the permission of a State, 
or political subdivision of a State, have remote 
access to, and may query, search, or otherwise 
access the databases of the firearms registra-
tion system or pawnbroker records system of 
the State or political subdivision. 
‘‘(F) The National Tracing Center may query, 
search, or otherwise access the electronic databases 
described in this paragraph for only the following 
purposes: 
‘‘(i) To obtain information related to any 
Federal, State, local, tribal, or foreign crime. 
‘‘(ii) To obtain information that is— 
‘‘(I) foreign intelligence information; 
or 
‘‘(II) necessary to understand, or as-
sess the importance of, foreign intelligence 
information. 
‘‘(G) The databases established under this 
paragraph— 
‘‘(i) shall be electronically searchable by 
date of disposition, license number, and the in-
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