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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4637 
To prevent the purchase of ammunition by prohibited purchasers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 13, 2023 
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (for herself, Ms. NORTON, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. 
SA´NCHEZ, Mr. ROBERT GARCIA of California, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. 
MOULTON, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. 
DAVIS of North Carolina, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. IVEY, Mr. EVANS, Mr. 
MOSKOWITZ, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, and Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary 
A BILL 
To prevent the purchase of ammunition by prohibited 
purchasers. 
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 ‘‘Jaime’s Law’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to enhance the background 
check process in the United States to prevent the purchase 
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of ammunition by individuals who are prohibited from 
doing so under Federal and State law. 
SEC. 3. TRANSFERS OF FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 922 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (s) and redesignating 
subsection (t) as subsection (s); and 
(2) in subsection (s) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘or ammunition’’ after 
‘‘firearm’’ each place it appears; 
(B) in paragraph (1)(B)(ii), by inserting 
‘‘in the case of a firearm,’’ before ‘‘3’’; 
(C) in paragraph (1)(C), by inserting ‘‘a 
firearm and’’ before ‘‘a person less’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7)(A)(i) It shall be unlawful for any person who 
is not a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or li-
censed dealer to transfer ammunition to any other person 
who is not so licensed, unless a licensed importer, licensed 
manufacturer, or licensed dealer has first taken possession 
of the ammunition for the purpose of complying with this 
subsection. 
‘‘(ii) Upon taking possession of ammunition under 
clause (i), a licensee shall comply with all requirements 
of this chapter as if the licensee were transferring ammu-
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nition from the inventory of the licensee to the unlicensed 
transferee. 
‘‘(iii) If a transfer of ammunition described in clause 
(i) will not be completed for any reason after a licensee 
takes possession of the ammunition (including because the 
transfer of the ammunition to, or receipt of the ammuni-
tion by, the transferee would violate this chapter), the re-
turn of the ammunition to the transferor by the licensee 
shall not constitute the transfer of ammunition for pur-
poses of this chapter. 
‘‘(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to— 
‘‘(i) a law enforcement agency or any law en-
forcement officer, armed private security profes-
sional, or member of the armed forces, to the extent 
the officer, professional, or member is acting within 
the course and scope of employment and official du-
ties; 
‘‘(ii) a transfer that is a loan or bona fide gift 
between spouses, between domestic partners, be-
tween parents and their children, between siblings, 
between aunts or uncles and their nieces or nephews, 
or between grandparents and their grandchildren; 
‘‘(iii) a transfer to an executor, administrator, 
trustee, or personal representative of an estate or a 
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trust that occurs by operation of law upon the death 
of another person; 
‘‘(iv) a transfer if the transfer is necessary to 
prevent imminent death or great bodily harm, if the 
possession by the transferee lasts only as long as im-
mediately necessary to prevent the imminent death 
or great bodily harm; or 
‘‘(v) a transfer, if the transferor has no reason 
to believe that the transferee will use or intends to 
use the ammunition in a crime or is prohibited from 
possessing ammunition under State or Federal law, 
and the transfer takes place and the transferee’s 
possession of the ammunition is exclusively— 
‘‘(I) at a shooting range or in a shooting 
gallery or other area designated for the purpose 
of target shooting; 
‘‘(II) while reasonably necessary for the 
purposes of hunting, trapping, or fishing, if the 
transferor— 
‘‘(aa) has no reason to believe that 
the transferee intends to use the ammuni-
tion in a place where it is illegal; and 
‘‘(bb) has reason to believe that the 
transferee will comply with all licensing 
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(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) SECTION
922.—Section 922(y)(2) of title 
18, United States Code, is amended, in the matter 
preceding 
subparagraph 
(A), 
by 
striking 
‘‘, 
(g)(5)(B), and (s)(3)(B)(v)(II)’’ and inserting ‘‘and 
(g)(5)(B)’’. 
(2) CONSOLIDATED AND FURTHER CONTINUING 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2012.—Section 511 of title V 
of division B of the Consolidated and Further Con-
tinuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (34 U.S.C. 40901 
note) is amended by striking ‘‘subsection 922(t)’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘subsection (s) 
or (t) of section 922’’. 
SEC. 4. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act, or any amendment made by this 
Act, shall be construed to— 
(1) authorize the establishment, directly or indi-
rectly, of a national firearms or ammunition reg-
istry; or 
(2) interfere with the authority of a State, 
under section 927 of title 18, United States Code, 
to enact a law on the same subject matter as this 
Act. 
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SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall 
take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
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