are the law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction 
over the location from which the licensee contacted the 
System and the law enforcement agencies that have juris-
diction over the location of the residence of the person for 
which the background check was conducted, as follows: 
‘‘(1) The field office of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation. 
‘‘(2) The local law enforcement agency. 
‘‘(3) The State law enforcement agency.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—Section 1(b) of such 
Act (Public Law 110–180; 121 Stat. 2559) is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 107 the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘108. Notification to law enforcement agencies of prohibited purchase or at-
tempted purchase of a firearm.’’. 
SEC. 7. USE OF BYRNE GRANTS FOR BUY-BACK PROGRAMS 
FOR SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS 
AND LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEED-
ING DEVICES. 
Section 501(a)(1) of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10152(a)(1)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(I) Compensation for surrendered semi-
automatic assault weapons and large capacity 
ammunition feeding devices, as those terms are 
defined in section 921 of title 18, United States 
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Code, under buy-back programs for semiauto-
matic assault weapons and large capacity am-
munition feeding devices.’’. 
SEC. 8. GUN SHOW BACKGROUND CHECK. 
(a) REGULATION OF FIREARMS TRANSFERS AT GUN 
SHOWS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 44 of such title is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 932. Regulation of firearms transfers at gun shows 
‘‘(a) REGISTRATION OF GUN SHOW OPERATORS.— 
It shall be unlawful for a person to operate a gun show, 
unless— 
‘‘(1) the person has attained 21 years of age; 
‘‘(2) the person (and, if the person is a corpora-
tion, partnership, or association, each individual pos-
sessing, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or 
cause the direction of the management and policies 
of the corporation, partnership, or association) is not 
prohibited by subsection (g) or (n) of section 922 
from transporting, shipping, or receiving firearms or 
ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce; 
‘‘(3) the person has not willfully violated any 
provision of this chapter or regulation issued under 
this chapter; 
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‘‘(4) the person has registered with the Attor-
ney General as a gun show operator, in accordance 
with regulations promulgated by the Attorney Gen-
eral, and as part of the registration— 
‘‘(A) has provided the Attorney General 
with a photograph and the fingerprints of the 
person; and 
‘‘(B) has certified that the person meets 
the requirements of subparagraphs (A) through 
(D) of section 923(d)(1); 
‘‘(5) the person has not willfully failed to dis-
close any material information required, and has not 
made any false statement as to any material fact, in 
connection with the registration; and 
‘‘(6) the person has paid the Attorney General 
a fee for the registration, in an amount determined 
by the Attorney General. 
‘‘(b) RESPONSIBILITIES
OF GUN SHOW OPERA-
TORS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for a 
person to operate a gun show, unless the person— 
‘‘(A) not later than 30 days before the 
commencement of the gun show, notifies the 
Attorney General, in writing, of the date, time, 
duration, and location of the gun show, and the 
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identity of each person who will be a gun show 
vendor at the gun show; 
‘‘(B) before commencement of the gun 
show— 
‘‘(i) verifies the identity of each indi-
vidual who will be a gun show vendor at 
the gun show by examining a valid identi-
fication document (as defined in section 
1028(d)(4)) of the individual containing a 
photograph of the individual; and 
‘‘(ii) requires each such individual to 
sign— 
‘‘(I) a ledger, and enter into the 
ledger identifying information con-
cerning the individual; and 
‘‘(II) a notice which sets forth 
the obligations of a gun show vendor 
under this chapter; and 
‘‘(C) notifies each person who attends the 
gun show of the requirements of this chapter, 
in accordance with such regulations as the At-
torney General shall prescribe. 
‘‘(2) RECORDKEEPING.—A person who oper-
ates, or has operated, a gun show shall maintain 
records demonstrating compliance with paragraph 
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(1)(B), at such place, for such period of time, and 
in such form as the Attorney General shall require 
by regulation, or transmit the records to the Attor-
ney General. 
‘‘(c) BACKGROUND
CHECK
REQUIRED
BEFORE 
TRANSFER OF FIREARM BETWEEN UNLICENSED PER-
SONS.—It shall be unlawful for a person who is not li-
censed under this chapter to transfer possession of, or title 
to, a firearm at, or on the curtilage of, a gun show, to 
another person who is not so licensed, or for a person who 
is not so licensed to receive possession of, or title to, a 
firearm at, or on the curtilage of, a gun show from another 
person who is not so licensed, unless a licensed importer, 
licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer— 
‘‘(1) has entered into a separate bound record 
the make, model, and serial number of the firearm, 
and such other information about the transaction as 
the Attorney General may require by regulation; and 
‘‘(2) has notified the prospective transferor and 
prospective transferee of the firearm that the na-
tional instant criminal background check system es-
tablished under section 103 of the Brady Handgun 
Violence Prevention Act has provided the licensee 
with a unique identification number, indicating that 
receipt of the firearm by the prospective transferee 
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would not violate section 922 of this title or State 
law. 
‘‘(d) RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A licensee who provides a 
notice pursuant to subsection (c)(2) with respect to 
the transfer of a firearm shall— 
‘‘(A) not later than 10 days after the date 
of the transfer, submit to the Attorney General 
a report of the transfer, which report shall 
specify the make, model, and serial number of 
the firearm, and contain such other information 
and be on such form, as the Attorney General 
shall require by regulation, except that the re-
port shall not include the name of or other 
identifying information relating to any person 
involved in the transfer who is not licensed 
under this chapter; and 
‘‘(B) retain a record of the transfer, in-
cluding the same information as would be re-
quired if the transfer were from the inventory 
of the licensee, as part of the permanent busi-
ness records of the licensee. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—The Attorney General may 
not impose any recordkeeping requirement on any 
gun show vendor by reason of this section.’’. 
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(3) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents for such chapter is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘Sec. 932. Regulation of firearms transfers at gun shows.’’. 
(b) INSPECTION AUTHORITY.—Section 923(g)(1) of 
such title is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) Notwithstanding subparagraph (B) of this para-
graph, the Attorney General may enter during business 
hours any place where a gun show operator operates a 
gun show or is required to maintain records pursuant to 
section 932(b)(2), for purposes of examining the records 
required by sections 923 and 932 and the inventory of 
licensees conducting business at the gun show. The entry 
and examination shall be conducted for the purposes of 
determining compliance with this chapter by gun show op-
erators and licensees conducting business at the gun show, 
and shall not require a showing of reasonable cause or 
a warrant.’’. 
(c) REPORTS OF MULTIPLE SALES ASSISTED BY LI-
CENSEES AT GUN SHOWS.—Section 923(g)(3)(A) of such 
title is amended by inserting ‘‘or provides pursuant to sec-
tion 932(c)(2) notice with respect to,’’ after ‘‘sells or oth-
erwise disposes of,’’. 
(d) INCREASED PENALTIES FOR SERIOUS RECORD-
KEEPING VIOLATIONS BY LICENSEES.—Section 924(a)(3) 
of such title is amended to read as follows: 
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‘‘(3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), any 
licensed dealer, licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, 
or licensed collector who knowingly makes any false state-
ment or representation with respect to the information re-
quired by this chapter to be kept in the records of a person 
licensed under this chapter, or violates section 922(m), 
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 
1 year, or both. 
‘‘(B) If the violation described in subparagraph (A) 
is in relation to an offense— 
‘‘(i) under paragraph (1) or (3) of section 
922(b), such person shall be fined under this title, 
imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both; or 
‘‘(ii) under subsection (a)(6) or (d) of section 
922, such person shall be fined under this title, im-
prisoned not more than 10 years, or both.’’. 
(e) INCREASED PENALTIES
FOR VIOLATIONS
OF 
CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) PENALTIES.—Section 924(a)(5) of such 
title is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘subsection (s) or (t) of 
section 922’’ and inserting ‘‘section 922(s)’’; 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘1’’ and inserting ‘‘5’’. 
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(2) ELIMINATION OF CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF 
OFFENSE.—Section 922(s)(5) of such title, as so re-
designated by the preceding provisions of this Act, 
is amended by striking ‘‘and, at the time’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘State law’’. 
(f) AUTHORITY TO HIRE PERSONNEL TO INSPECT 
GUN SHOWS.—The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms and Explosives may hire at least 40 addi-
tional Industry Operations Investigators for the purpose 
of carrying out inspections of gun shows (as defined in 
section 921(a)(51) of title 18, United States Code). 
(g) REPORT TO THE CONGRESS.—The Director of 
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 
shall submit biennial reports to the Congress on how fire-
arms (as defined in section 921(a)(3) of title 18, United 
States Code) are sold at gun shows (as defined in para-
graph (51) of such section), how this section is being car-
ried out, whether firearms are being sold without back-
ground checks conducted by the national instant criminal 
background check system established under section 103 
of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, what re-
sources are needed to carry out this section, and any rec-
ommendations for improvements to ensure that firearms 
are not sold without the background checks. 
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(h) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amend-
ments made by this section shall take effect 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 9. FIREARMS TRAFFICKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 44 of title 18, United 
States Code, as amended by the preceding provisions of 
this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 933. Trafficking in firearms 
‘‘(a) OFFENSES.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), it shall be unlawful for any person, in or affecting 
interstate commerce— 
‘‘(1) to purchase, attempt to purchase, or trans-
fer a firearm, with the intent to deliver the firearm 
to another person who the transferor knows, or has 
reasonable cause to believe, is prohibited by Federal 
or State law from possessing a firearm; 
‘‘(2) in purchasing, attempting to purchase, or 
transferring a firearm, to intentionally provide false 
or misleading material information on a Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives firearms 
transaction record form; or 
‘‘(3) to knowingly direct, promote, or facilitate 
conduct that violates paragraph (1) or (2). 
‘‘(b) GIFT EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not 
apply to a firearm that is— 
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‘‘(1) lawfully acquired by a person to be given 
to another person not prohibited from possessing a 
firearm under Federal or State law as a gift; or 
‘‘(2) lawfully received or otherwise acquired by 
a court-appointed trustee, receiver, or conservator 
for, or on behalf of, an estate or creditor or by a 
person to carry out a bequest, or an acquisition by 
intestate succession under the laws of the State of 
residence of the person. 
‘‘(c) PENALTIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Any person who violates 
this section shall be fined under this title, impris-
oned for not more than 20 years, or both. 
‘‘(2) ORGANIZER ENHANCEMENT.—If a viola-
tion of subsection (a) is committed by a person in 
concert with 5 or more other persons with respect to 
whom such person occupies a position of organizer, 
a supervisory position, or any other position of man-
agement, such person may be sentenced to an addi-
tional term of imprisonment of not more than 5 con-
secutive years. 
‘‘(3) CONSPIRACY.—Any person who conspires 
to commit an offense described in this section shall 
be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more 
than 10 years, or both.’’. 
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(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
The table of sections for chapter 44 of title 18, United 
States Code, as amended by the preceding provisions of 
this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘933. Trafficking in firearms.’’. 
(c) DIRECTIVE TO THE SENTENCING COMMISSION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Pursuant to its authority 
under section 994(p) of title 28, United States Code, 
the United States Sentencing Commission shall re-
view and, if appropriate, amend the Federal sen-
tencing guidelines and policy statements applicable 
to persons convicted of offenses under section 933 of 
title 18, United States Code (as added by subsection 
(a)). 
(2) REQUIREMENT.—In carrying out this sec-
tion, the Commission shall review the penalty struc-
ture that the guidelines currently provide based on 
the number of firearms involved in the offense and 
determine whether any changes to that penalty 
structure are appropriate in order to reflect the in-
tent of Congress that such penalties reflect the grav-
ity of the offense. 
SEC. 10. ADDITION OF DATING PARTNERS AND INDIVID-
UALS SUBJECT TO RESTRAINING ORDERS. 
(a) DEFINITION.—Section 921(a) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended— 
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(1) by striking paragraph (32) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(32) The term ‘intimate partner’— 
‘‘(A) means with respect to a person, the spouse 
of the person, a former spouse of the person, an in-
dividual who is a parent of a child of the person, and 
an individual who cohabitates or has cohabited with 
the person; and 
‘‘(B) includes— 
‘‘(i) a dating partner (as defined in section 
2266); and 
‘‘(ii) any other person similarly situated to 
a spouse who is protected by the domestic or 
family violence laws of the State or tribal juris-
diction in which the injury occurred or where 
the victim resides.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (33)(A)(ii)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘intimate partner,’’ after 
‘‘former spouse,’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘intimate partner,’’ after 
‘‘a spouse,’’ each place it appears. 
(b) ADDITION OF STALKING.—Section 922 of title 
18, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
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(A) in paragraph (8)(ii), by striking ‘‘or’’ 
at the end; 
(B) in paragraph (9), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (9) the 
following: 
‘‘(10) has been convicted in any court of a mis-
demeanor crime of stalking.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (g)— 
(A) in paragraph (8)(C)(ii), by striking 
‘‘or’’ at the end; 
(B) in paragraph (9), by striking the 
comma at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (9) the 
following: 
‘‘(10) has been convicted in any court of a mis-
demeanor crime of stalking,’’. 
SEC. 11. PROHIBITION ON POSSESSION OF CERTAIN FIRE-
ARM ACCESSORIES. 
Chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, as 
amended by the preceding provisions of this Act, is amend-
ed— 
(1) in section 922, by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(bb)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), on and 
after the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this subsection, it shall be unlawful for any person to 
import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or af-
fecting interstate or foreign commerce, a trigger crank, 
a bump-fire device, or any part, combination of parts, 
component, device, attachment, or accessory that is de-
signed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a semi-
automatic rifle but not convert the semiautomatic rifle 
into a machinegun. 
‘‘(2) This subsection does not apply with respect to 
the importation for, manufacture for, sale to, transfer to, 
or possession by or under the authority of, the United 
States or any department or agency thereof or a State, 
or a department, agency, or political subdivision thereof.’’; 
and 
(2) in section 924(a)(2), by striking ‘‘, or (o)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(o), or (bb)’’. 
SEC. 12. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act, an amendment made by 
this Act, or the application of such provision or amend-
ment to any person or circumstance is held to be unconsti-
tutional, the remainder of this Act, the amendments made 
by this Act, and the application of such provision or 
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amendment to any person or circumstance shall not be af-
fected thereby. 
Æ 
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