(b) PROHIBITION; PENALTY.— 
(1) PROHIBITION.—It shall be unlawful for a 
person, in or affecting interstate or foreign com-
merce, to manufacture a firearm that does not have 
a passive identification capability that meets the na-
tional standard established under subsection (a). 
(2) CIVIL PENALTY.—After notice and oppor-
tunity for hearing, the Attorney General shall im-
pose on a person who violates paragraph (1) a civil 
money penalty in such amount, not exceeding 
$1,000 per firearm, as the Attorney General shall 
prescribe in regulations. 
(3) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—This subsection shall 
take effect on such date as the Attorney General 
shall prescribe in regulations that is not later than 
3 years after the establishment of the national 
standard under subsection (a). 
SEC. 5. REPORTING OF LOST AND STOLEN FIREARMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Within 1 year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives shall establish 
a database of firearms reported to be lost or stolen in the 
United States, which shall be known as the ‘‘National 
Database of Lost and Stolen Firearms’’. 
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(b) CONTENTS.—The database shall include the fol-
lowing information with respect to each firearm reported 
to the database: 
(1) A description of the firearm, including the 
type of the firearm. 
(2) Whether the firearm is reported lost or sto-
len. 
(3) The date of the report. 
(4) The name of the owner of the firearm, if 
known. 
(5) The name and location of the person from 
whom the firearm was obtained, if known. 
(6) The location where the firearm is reported 
to have been lost or stolen. 
(7) Whether the firearm has been reported to 
the database as having been recovered, since being 
reported to the database as lost or stolen. 
(c) AVAILABILITY OF DATABASE.—The information 
in the database shall be made available to all Federal, 
State, and local law enforcement authorities. 
(d) REPORTING OF LOST OR STOLEN FIREARMS TO 
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.— 
(1) REPORTING
REQUIREMENT.—Section 922 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
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‘‘(aa) Within 48 hours after a person who owns a 
firearm that has been shipped or transported in interstate 
or foreign commerce discovers the theft or loss of the fire-
arm, the person shall report the theft or loss to local law 
enforcement authorities.’’. 
(2) PENALTY.—Section 924 of such title is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(q) PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO REPORT LOSS OR 
THEFT OF FIREARM.—Whoever violates section 922(aa) 
shall be fined $10,000 with respect to each firearm in-
volved in the violation.’’. 
(e) REQUIREMENT THAT LOCAL LAW ENFORCE-
MENT AUTHORITIES REPORT LOST OR STOLEN FIRE-
ARMS TO THE NATIONAL REGISTRY.—Within 7 days after 
a local law enforcement authority receives a report that 
a firearm is lost or stolen, the authority shall transmit 
the report to the National Database of Lost and Stolen 
Firearms. 
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