I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5453 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 with 
respect to eligibility under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assist-
ance Grant Program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 
Mr. AMO (for himself, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. MAG-
AZINER, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. 
GOLDMAN of New York, Mr. MULLIN, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. KELLY of Illi-
nois, Ms. NORTON, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. SWALWELL, Mr. SMITH of 
Washington, Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania, Mr. FROST, and Mr. CASTEN) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 with respect to eligibility under the Edward 
Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, and 
for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Responsible Retire-
ment of Law Enforcement Firearms Act of 2025’’ or the 
‘‘RRLEF Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY UNDER EDWARD BYRNE MEMORIAL 
JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.—Section 502 of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 
(34 U.S.C. 10153) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(5)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘and’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) the applicant, and each grantee or 
subgrantee under the jurisdiction of the appli-
cant, shall not transfer a firearm to, or pur-
chase a firearm from, a licensed dealer that is 
on the list of covered licensed dealers most re-
cently published at the time of certification by 
the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms, and Explosives under section 2(b)(2) 
of the RRLEF Act of 2025.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘covered licensed dealer’ means a 
licensed dealer with respect to whom, in not less 
than two of the three calendar years prior to the 
publication of the list under section 2(b)(2) of the 
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RRLEF Act of 2025, the National Tracing Center 
of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
Explosives has traced to the firearms business of 
such licensed dealer, in such calendar years, not less 
than 25 firearms that had a short time-to-crime; 
‘‘(2) the terms ‘licensed dealer’ and ‘firearm’ 
have the meaning given such terms, respectively, in 
section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code; and 
‘‘(3) the term ‘short time-to-crime’ means, a pe-
riod of not more than three calendar years between 
the date of the last known retail sale of a firearm 
and the date a law enforcement agency recovers such 
firearm as a result of such firearm being purchased 
for, possessed during, or used in, an actual or sus-
pected criminal offense.’’. 
(b) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF DATABASE INFORMA-
TION OF BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS 
AND EXPLOSIVES.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 
the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the 
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 
shall— 
(1) notify a State or local law enforcement 
agency if any firearm (as such term is defined in 
section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code) that 
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was transferred by such agency was used, or sus-
pected of being used, in the commission of a crimi-
nal offense, as traced by the National Tracing Cen-
ter of the Bureau; and 
(2) make publicly available on the internet 
website of the Bureau a list of each covered licensed 
dealer (as such term is defined in section 502(c) of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (34 U.S.C. 10153(c))). 
(c) REPEAL OF CERTAIN LIMITATIONS ON PUBLIC 
DISCLOSURE OF DATABASE INFORMATION OF BUREAU OF 
ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES.— 
(1) PUBLIC
LAW
112–55.—The 6th proviso 
under the heading ‘‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses’’ 
in title II of division B of the Consolidated and Fur-
ther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (18 
U.S.C. 923 note; Public Law 112–55; 125 Stat. 
609–610) is amended by striking ‘‘and in each fiscal 
year thereafter’’. 
(2) PUBLIC
LAW
111–117.—The 6th proviso 
under the heading ‘‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses’’ 
in title II of division B of the Consolidated Appro-
priations Act, 2010 (18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public 
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