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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 930 
To provide for the establishment of a national standard for incorporating 
a passive identification ability into all firearms sold in the United States, 
and to require the reporting of lost or stolen firearms to the appropriate 
law enforcement authorities. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 30, 2019 
Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To provide for the establishment of a national standard 
for incorporating a passive identification ability into all 
firearms sold in the United States, and to require the 
reporting of lost or stolen firearms to the appropriate 
law enforcement authorities. 
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 ‘‘Stopping the Iron 
Pipeline Act of 2019’’. 
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SEC. 2. PASSIVE CAPABILITY TO IDENTIFY LOST AND STO-
LEN FIREARMS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL STANDARD.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall, 
in consultation with the National Institute for 
Standards and Technology, establish in regulations a 
national standard for the incorporation of a passive 
identification capability into all firearms sold in the 
United States. 
(2) PASSIVE IDENTIFICATION CAPABILITY DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘passive identi-
fication capability’’ means a technology that— 
(A) enables a firearm to be identified by a 
mobile or fixed reading device; and 
(B) does not emit or broadcast an elec-
tronic signal or other information that would 
enable the firearm or its owner to be monitored 
or tracked. 
(3) 
CONSIDERATIONS.—In 
developing 
the 
standard, the Attorney General shall give equal pri-
ority to the following: 
(A) The right of firearm owners to main-
tain their full right to privacy under the 4th 
Amendment and their right to legally own fire-
arms under the 2nd Amendment. 
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(B) The ability of law enforcement authori-
ties to use the capability to track lost and sto-
len guns. 
(C) The ability of manufacturers to incor-
porate the capability using existing firearm 
manufacturing processes. 
(D) The resistance to tampering and de-
struction of the technology used to incorporate 
the capability. 
(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 
$2,500 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 
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3 years after the establishment of the national 
standard under subsection (a). 
SEC. 3. REPORTING OF LOST OR STOLEN FIREARMS TO 
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES. 
(a) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Section 922 of title 
18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(aa) Within 48 hours after a person who owns a 
firearm that has been shipped or transported in, or has 
been possessed in or affecting, interstate or foreign com-
merce, discovers or should have discovered the theft or loss 
of the firearm, the person shall report the theft or loss 
to local law enforcement authorities. To the best of the 
person’s ability, the person shall provide the following in-
formation, if known: 
‘‘(1) A description of the firearm, including the 
make, model, manufacturer, caliber, and serial num-
ber of the firearm, and any other distinguishing 
number or identification mark on the firearm. 
‘‘(2) Whether the firearm is being reported lost 
or stolen. 
‘‘(3) The date of the loss or theft. 
‘‘(4) The person’s name and address. 
‘‘(5) The location from which the firearm was 
lost or stolen.’’. 
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(b) PENALTIES.—Section 924 of such title is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(r) PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO REPORT LOSS OR 
THEFT OF FIREARM.—Whoever violates section 922(aa) 
shall be fined $10,000, imprisoned not more than 1 year, 
or both, with respect to each firearm involved in the viola-
tion.’’. 
(c) REQUIREMENT THAT LOCAL LAW ENFORCE-
MENT AUTHORITIES REPORT LOST OR STOLEN FIRE-
ARMS
TO
THE NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CEN-
TER.—Within 7 days after a local law enforcement author-
ity receives a report that a firearm is lost or stolen, the 
authority shall transmit the report to the National Crime 
Information Center maintained by the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation. 
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