from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
Explosives; and 
(2) certifies to the Attorney General that the 
State is committed to investigating and prosecuting 
persons who illegally purchase, possess, or receive 
firearms or illegally attempt to purchase, possess, or 
receive firearms. 
(e) USE OF FUNDS.—A State that receives a grant 
under this section shall use grant funds to coordinate and 
execute investigations and prosecutions of persons who il-
legally purchase, possess, or receive a firearm, or illegally 
attempt such purchase, possession, or receipt, including 
the illegal purchase or possession of a firearm based on 
a prior felony or any relevant misdemeanor convictions. 
(f) EVALUATION.—Each State that receives a grant 
under this section shall submit to the Attorney General, 
not later than 1 year after receipt of such grant, an eval-
uation in such form and containing such information as 
the Attorney General may reasonably require. 
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING.—There is author-
ized to be appropriated to carry out this section not more 
than $7,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 
2026. 
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SEC. 5. INCREASING FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF GUN VIO-
LENCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General 
shall establish in each jurisdiction described in subsection 
(c) a program that meets the requirements of subsection 
(b), which shall be known as the ‘‘Prosecute Gun Crimes 
Program’’. 
(b) PROGRAM ELEMENTS.—Each program estab-
lished under subsection (a) shall, for the jurisdiction con-
cerned— 
(1) require that the United States attorney des-
ignate not less than 1 assistant United States attor-
neys to prosecute violations of Federal firearms 
laws; 
(2) provide for coordination with State and 
local law enforcement officials in the identification of 
violations of Federal firearms laws; 
(3) provide for the establishment of agreements 
with State and local law enforcement officials for the 
referral to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms 
and Explosives and the United States attorney for 
the district in which the jurisdiction is located for 
prosecution of persons arrested for violations of sec-
tion 922 or 924 of title 18, United States Code, or 
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section 5861 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 
relating to firearms; 
(4) ensure that each person so referred be 
charged with a violation of the most serious Federal 
firearm offense consistent with the act committed, 
while preserving prosecutorial discretion; 
(5) provide for the hiring of agents for the Bu-
reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 
to investigate violations of the provisions of law 
specified in paragraph (3); and 
(6) provide for the establishment of multijuris-
dictional task forces, coordinated by the Executive 
Office of the United States attorneys, to investigate 
and prosecute illegal straw purchasing rings that 
purchase firearms in one jurisdiction and transfer 
them in another. 
(c) COVERED JURISDICTIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the jurisdictions described in this subsection are— 
(A) the 15 cities or jurisdictions within the 
50 States with a population equal to or greater 
than 100,000 persons that had the highest per 
capita rate of gun-based homicides according to 
the uniform crime report of the Federal Bureau 
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of Investigation for the most recent year avail-
able; and 
(B) the 3 tribal jurisdictions that have the 
highest gun-based homicide crime rates, as de-
termined by the Attorney General. 
(d) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually there-
after, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee 
on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the 
Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report con-
taining the following information: 
(1) The number of individuals indicted for such 
violations of Federal firearms laws during that year. 
(2) The increase or decrease in the number of 
individuals indicted for such violations of Federal 
firearms laws during that year under a program es-
tablished under this section when compared with the 
year preceding that year. 
(3) To the extent the information is available, 
the average length of the sentences of imprisonment 
of the individuals convicted of violations of Federal 
firearms laws under such a program. 
(4) The number of multijurisdictional task 
forces established and the number of individuals ar-
rested, indicted, convicted or acquitted of charges for 
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violations of the crimes specified in subsection 
(b)(3). 
(e) LIMITATIONS
ON AUTHORIZATION
OF APPRO-
PRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—For the salaries and ex-
penses of assistant United States attorneys and Bu-
reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 
agents participating in the program established 
under this section, there are authorized to be appro-
priated $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022, 
2023, and 2024. 
(2) USE OF FUNDS.— 
(A) ASSISTANT
UNITED
STATES
ATTOR-
NEYS.—The assistant United States attorneys 
hired using amounts made available under 
paragraph (1) of this subsection shall prosecute 
violations of Federal firearms laws specified in 
subsection (b)(3). 
(B) ATF AGENTS.—The Bureau of Alco-
hol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents 
hired using amounts made available under 
paragraph (1) of this subsection shall, to the 
maximum extent practicable, concentrate their 
investigations on violations of Federal firearms 
laws specified in subsection (b)(3). 
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SEC. 6. PROSECUTION OF FELONS WHO ATTEMPT TO ILLE-
GALLY PURCHASE FIREARMS. 
(a) TASK FORCE.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in 
the Department of Justice a task force, which shall 
be known as the Felon Firearm Task Force (re-
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘Task Force’’), to 
strengthen the efforts of the Department of Justice 
to investigate and prosecute cases of convicted felons 
who illegally attempt to purchase a firearm. 
(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The members of the Task 
Force shall be— 
(A) the Deputy Attorney General, who 
shall serve as the Chairperson of the Task 
Force; 
(B) the Assistant Attorney General for the 
Criminal Division; 
(C) the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; 
(D) the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation; and 
(E) such other officers or employees of the 
Department of Justice as the Attorney General 
may designate. 
(3) DUTIES.—The Task Force shall provide— 
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(A) direction for the investigation and 
prosecution of cases of convicted felons at-
tempting to illegally purchase a firearm; and 
(B) recommendations to the Attorney Gen-
eral relating to— 
(i) the allocation and reallocation of 
resources of the Department of Justice for 
investigation and prosecution of such 
cases; 
(ii) enhancing cooperation among enti-
ties of the Federal Government in the in-
vestigation and prosecution of such cases; 
(iii) enhancing cooperation among 
Federal, State, and local authorities re-
sponsible for the investigation and prosecu-
tion of such cases; and 
(iv) changes in rules, regulations, or 
policy to improve the effective investigation 
and prosecution of such cases. 
(4) MEETINGS.—The Task Force shall meet 
not less than once each year. 
(5) TERMINATION.—The Task Force shall ter-
minate on the date that is 5 years after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
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(b) AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF FUNDS.—Section 
524(c)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (I), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(J) the investigation and prosecution of 
cases of convicted felons who illegally attempt 
to purchase a firearm, in accordance with sec-
tion 6(a) of the Prosecuting Gun Crimes Saves 
Lives Act, except that— 
‘‘(i) not more than $5,000,000 shall 
be available to the Attorney General for 
each of fiscal years 2022 through 2025 
under this subparagraph; and 
‘‘(ii) not more than 5 percent of the 
amounts made available under this sub-
paragraph may be used for the administra-
tive costs of the task force established 
under such section.’’. 
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SEC. 7. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON FIREARMS PROSECU-
TIONS. 
(a) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Beginning February 1, 
2022, and on February 1 of each year thereafter through 
2030, the Attorney General shall submit to the Commit-
tees on the Judiciary and on Appropriations of the Senate 
and of the House of Representatives a report containing 
the information furnished under subsection (b) during the 
fiscal year that ended on September 30 of the preceding 
year. 
(b) SUBJECT OF ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 
90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Attorney General shall require each component of the De-
partment of Justice, including each Office of the United 
States Attorney, to furnish for the purposes of the report 
required by subsection (a) information relating to any case 
presented to the Department of Justice for review or pros-
ecution, in which the objective facts of the case provide 
probable cause to believe that there has been a violation 
of section 922 or 924 of title 18, United States Code, or 
section 5861 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 
(c) ELEMENTS OF ANNUAL REPORT.—With respect 
to each case described in subsection (b), the report sub-
mitted under subsection (a) shall include information indi-
cating— 
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(1) whether in any such case, a decision has 
been made not to charge an individual with a viola-
tion of the relevant provision of law or any other 
provision of Federal criminal law; 
(2) in any case described in paragraph (1), a 
description of why no charge was filed under the rel-
evant provision of law; 
(3) whether, in any case described in subsection 
(b), an indictment, information, or other charge has 
been brought against any person, or the matter is 
pending; 
(4) whether, in the case of an indictment, infor-
mation, or other charge referred to in paragraph (3), 
the charging document contains a count or counts 
alleging a violation of the relevant provision of law; 
(5) in any case described in paragraph (4) in 
which the charging document contains a count or 
counts alleging a violation of the relevant provision 
of law, whether a plea agreement of any kind has 
been entered into with the charged individual; 
(6) whether any plea agreement described in 
paragraph (5) required the individual to plead guilty 
or enter a plea of nolo contendere, or otherwise 
caused a court to enter a conviction against the indi-
vidual for a violation of the relevant provision of law; 
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(7) in any case described in paragraph (6) in 
which the plea agreement did not require the indi-
vidual to plead guilty or enter a plea of nolo 
contendere, or otherwise cause a court to enter a 
conviction against that individual for a violation of 
the relevant provision of law, the charges to which 
the individual pled guilty; 
(8) in the case of an indictment, information, or 
other charge described in paragraph (3), in which 
the charging document contains a count alleging a 
violation of the relevant provision of law, the result 
of any trial of the charges; 
(9) in the case of an indictment, information, or 
other charge described in paragraph (3), in which 
the charging document did not contain a count or 
counts alleging a violation of the relevant provision 
of law, the nature of the other charges brought and 
the result of any trial of such other charges brought; 
(10) the number of persons who attempted to 
purchase a firearm but were denied a firearm be-
cause of a background check conducted in accord-
ance with section 922(t) of title 18, United States 
Code; and 
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(11) the number of prosecutions conducted in 
relation to persons described in paragraph (10). 
Æ 
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