I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6075 
To ensure greater accountability by licensed firearms dealers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 12, 2018 
Mr. LANGEVIN (for himself, Ms. MOORE, and Mr. DEUTCH) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To ensure greater accountability by licensed firearms dealers. 
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 ‘‘Keeping Gun Dealers 
Honest Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. INCREASING THE NUMBER OF ALLOWED COMPLI-
ANCE INSPECTIONS OF FIREARMS DEALERS. 
Section 923(g)(1)(B)(ii)(I) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘once’’ and inserting ‘‘3 
times’’. 
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SEC. 3. INCREASING PENALTIES ON FIREARMS LICENSEES. 
Section 924(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘one year’’ and inserting ‘‘5 years’’. 
SEC. 4. SERIOUS RECORDKEEPING OFFENSES THAT AID 
GUN TRAFFICKING. 
Section 924(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; but if the 
violation is in relation to an offense under subsection 
(a)(6) or (d) of section 922, shall be fined under this title, 
imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.’’. 
SEC. 5. SUSPENSION OF FIREARMS DEALER’S LICENSE AND 
CIVIL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE 
GUN CONTROL ACT. 
Subsections (e) and (f) of section 923 of title 18, 
United States Code, are amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(e) The Attorney General may, after notice and op-
portunity for hearing, suspend or revoke any license issued 
under this section, or may subject the licensee to a civil 
penalty of not more than $10,000 per violation, if the 
holder of the license has violated any provision of this 
chapter or any rule or regulation prescribed by the Attor-
ney General under this chapter or fails to have secure gun 
storage or safety devices available at any place in which 
firearms are sold under the license to persons who are not 
licensees (except that in any case in which a secure gun 
storage or safety device is temporarily unavailable because 
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‘‘(2) If the Attorney General denies an application 
for a license, or suspends or revokes a license, or assesses 
a civil penalty, the Attorney General shall, upon request 
by the aggrieved party, promptly hold a hearing to review 
the denial, suspension, revocation, or assessment. In the 
case of a suspension or revocation of a license, the Attor-
ney General shall, on the request of the holder of the li-
cense, stay the effective date of the suspension or revoca-
tion. A hearing under this paragraph shall be held at a 
location convenient to the aggrieved party. 
‘‘(3) If after a hearing held under paragraph (2) the 
Attorney General decides not to reverse the decision to 
deny an application or suspend or revoke a license or as-
sess a civil penalty, the Attorney General shall give notice 
of the decision to the aggrieved party. The aggrieved party 
may at any time within 60 days after the date notice is 
given under this paragraph file a petition with the United 
States district court for the district in which the party 
resides or in which the party’s principal place of business 
is located for a de novo judicial review of the denial, sus-
pension, revocation, or assessment. In a proceeding con-
ducted under this subsection, the court may consider any 
evidence submitted by the parties to the proceeding wheth-
er or not such evidence was considered at the hearing held 
under paragraph (2). If the court decides that the Attor-
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ney General was not authorized to deny the application 
or to suspend or revoke the license or to assess the civil 
penalty, the court shall order the Attorney General to take 
such action as may be necessary to comply with the judg-
ment of the court.’’. 
SEC. 6. TERMINATION OF FIREARMS DEALER’S LICENSE 
UPON FELONY CONVICTION. 
Section 925(b) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘until any conviction pursuant to the 
indictment becomes final’’ and inserting ‘‘until the date 
of any conviction pursuant to the indictment’’. 
SEC. 7. AUTHORITY TO HIRE ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL. 
The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives may hire at least 80 additional 
personnel for the purpose of carrying out additional in-
spections as provided for in the amendments made by this 
Act. 
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SEC. 8. AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE LICENSED DEALER TO 
CONDUCT A PHYSICAL INVENTORY AND PRO-
VIDE INVENTORY RECORD IF DEALER HAS 
UNLAWFULLY TRANSFERRED A FIREARM OR 
10 OR MORE CRIME GUNS ARE TRACED TO 
THE DEALER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 923(g)(1) of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(E) The Attorney General may require a licensed 
importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer to con-
duct a physical inventory of the firearms in the business 
inventory of the licensee, and provide the Attorney General 
with a detailed record of the physical inventory if— 
‘‘(i) the licensee has been convicted of transfer-
ring a firearm unlawfully; or 
‘‘(ii) the Attorney General finds that 10 or 
more firearms used in a crime under Federal, State, 
or local law have been traced back to the licensee.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Section 923(j) of such title is amended in 
the 6th sentence by inserting ‘‘, except as required 
under subsection (g)(1)(E)’’ before the period. 
(2) The 5th proviso of the item relating to ‘‘Bu-
reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’’ 
in title II of division B of the Consolidated and Fur-
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ther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (127 
Stat. 248; Public Law 113–6) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘, except as required under subsection (g)(1)(E) 
of such section 923’’ before the colon. 
SEC. 9. ISSUANCE OF LICENSES. 
Section 923 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘shall issue’’ 
and inserting ‘‘may issue’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘shall be’’ 
and inserting ‘‘may be’’. 
SEC. 10. LIABILITY STANDARDS. 
Section 923 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended in each of subsections (c) and (d), by striking 
‘‘willfully’’ each place it appears. 
SEC. 11. REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY. 
Section 926(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘only’’. 
SEC. 12. REPORT TO THE CONGRESS. 
The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives shall submit biennial reports to 
the Congress on the implementation of this Act, which 
shall include a statement by the Director as to what addi-
tional resources, if any, are necessary in order to imple-
ment this Act, and any recommendations of the Director 
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for how better to ensure that firearms dealers are com-
plying with all laws and regulations that apply with re-
spect to dealing in firearms, and that noncompliant fire-
arms dealers are subject to appropriate action in a timely 
manner. 
Æ 
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