(1) maintain a Firearms Violence Information
Clearinghouse to collect, investigate, analyze, and
disseminate data and information relating to the
causes and prevention of death and injury associated
with firearms;
(2) conduct continuing studies and investiga-
tions of firearm-related deaths and injuries and the
resulting economic costs and losses;
(3) compile an annual report detailing each case
of criminal misuse of machineguns registered under
the National Firearms Act that is known to the Sec-
retary;
(4) collect and maintain current production and
sales figures for each person registered as a manu-
facturer under the Gun Control Act;
(5) conduct research on, studies of, and inves-
tigation into the safety of firearm products and im-
proving the safety of firearm products; and
(6) develop firearm safety testing methods and
testing devices.
(b) AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.—On a regular
basis, but not less frequently than annually, the Secretary
shall make available to the public the results of the activi-
ties of the Secretary under paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and
(4) of subsection (a).
SEC. 402. ANNUAL REPORTS TO THE CONGRESS.
The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Presi-
dent and the Congress at the beginning of each regular
session of the Congress, a comprehensive report on the
administration of this Act for the most recently completed
fiscal year. The report shall include—
(1) a thorough appraisal, including statistical
analyses and projections, of the incidence of injury
and death and effects on the population resulting
from firearm products, with a breakdown, as prac-
ticable, among the various types of such products as-
sociated with the injuries and deaths;
(2) a list of firearm safety regulations pre-
scribed that year;
(3) an evaluation of the degree of compliance
with firearm safety regulations, including a list of
enforcement actions, court decisions, and settlements
of alleged violations, by name and location of the vi-
olator or alleged violator, as the case may be;
(4) a summary of the outstanding problems
hindering enforcement of this Act, in the order of
priority; and
(5) a log and summary of meetings between the
Secretary or employees of the Secretary and rep-
resentatives of industry, interested groups, or other
interested parties.
TITLE V—RELATIONSHIP TO
OTHER LAW
SEC. 501. SUBORDINATION TO ARMS EXPORT CONTROL
ACT.
In the event of any conflict between any provision of
this Act and any provision of the Arms Export Control
Act, the provision of the Arms Export Control Act shall
control.
SEC. 502. EFFECT ON STATE LAW.
This Act shall not be construed to preempt any provi-
sion of the law of any State or political subdivision thereof,
or prevent a State or political subdivision thereof from en-
acting any provision of law regulating or prohibiting con-
duct with respect to a firearm product, except to the ex-
tent that such provision of law is inconsistent with any
provision of this Act, and then only to the extent of the
inconsistency. A provision of State law is not inconsistent
with this Act if the provision imposes a regulation or pro-
hibition of greater scope or a penalty of greater severity
than any prohibition or penalty imposed by this Act.
TITLE VI—DEFINITIONS
SEC. 601. DEFINITIONS.
(a) SPECIFIC TERMS.—As used in this Act:
(1) FIREARMS DEALER.—The term ‘‘firearms
dealer’’ means—
(A) any person engaged in the business (as
defined in section 921(a)(21)(C) of title 18,
United States Code) of dealing in firearms at
wholesale or retail;
(B) any person engaged in the business (as
defined in section 921(a)(21)(D) of title 18,
United States Code) of repairing firearms or of
making or fitting special barrels, stocks, or trig-
ger mechanisms to firearms; and
(C) any person who is a pawnbroker.
(2) FIREARM PART.—The term ‘‘firearm part’’
means—
(A) any part or component of a firearm as
originally manufactured;
(B) any good manufactured or sold—
(i) for replacement or improvement of
a firearm; or
(ii) as any accessory or addition to the
firearm; and
(C) any good that is not a part or compo-
nent of a firearm and is manufactured, sold, de-
livered, offered, or intended for use exclusively
to safeguard individuals from injury by a fire-
arm.
(3) FIREARM
PRODUCT.—The term ‘‘firearm
product’’ means a firearm, firearm part, nonpowder
firearm, and ammunition.
(4) FIREARM SAFETY REGULATION.—The term
‘‘firearm safety regulation’’ means a regulation pre-
scribed under this Act.
(5) FIREARM
SAFETY
STANDARD.—The term
‘‘firearm safety standard’’ means a standard pro-
mulgated under this Act.
(6) MACHINEGUN.—The term ‘‘machinegun’’
means—
(A) any weapon which shoots, is designed
to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot,
automatically more than 1 shot, without man-
ual reloading, by a single function of the trig-
ger;
(B) the frame or receiver of any such
weapon;
(C) any part or combination of parts de-
signed and intended for use in converting a
weapon into a device described in subparagraph
(A) or (B), whether or not modification to the
frame or receiver of the weapon is necessary to
complete the conversion; and
(D) any combination of parts from which
a device described in subparagraph (A) or (B)
can be assembled if such parts are in the pos-
session or under the control of a person.
(8) 
NONPOWDER
FIREARM.—The 
term
‘‘nonpowder firearm’’ means a device specifically de-
signed to discharge BBs, pellets, darts, or similar
projectiles by the release of stored energy.
(9) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
the Secretary of the Treasury or the delegate of the
Secretary.
(b) OTHER TERMS.—Each other term used in this
Act shall have the meaning (if any) given such term in
section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code.
TITLE VII—EFFECTIVE DATE
SEC. 701. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act.
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