I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 431 
To restore certain authorities of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, 
and Explosives to administer the firearms laws, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 25, 2013 
Ms. SPEIER (for herself, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. 
CICILLINE, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. FARR, Mr. 
GRIJALVA, Ms. NORTON, Mr. HOLT, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. PIN-
GREE of Maine, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Ms. SLAUGHTER, 
and Mr. VAN HOLLEN) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To restore certain authorities of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms, and Explosives to administer the fire-
arms laws, 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 ‘‘Gun Transparency and 
Accountability (Gun TRAC) Act of 2013’’. 
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SEC. 2. USE OF FIREARM TRACE INFORMATION IN CIVIL 
PROCEEDINGS. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the con-
tents of the Firearms Trace System database maintained 
by the National Trace Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shall not be immune 
from legal process, shall be subject to subpoena or other 
discovery, shall be admissible as evidence, and may be 
used, relied on, or disclosed in any manner, and testimony 
or other evidence may be permitted based on the data, 
on the same basis as other information, in a civil action 
in any State (including the District of Columbia) or Fed-
eral court or in an administrative proceeding. 
SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT TO PRESERVE INSTANT CRIMINAL 
BACKGROUND 
CHECK 
RECORDS 
FOR 
DAYS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 922(t)(2)(C) of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘after the 
90-day period that begins with the date the system com-
plies with subparagraphs (A) and (B),’’ before ‘‘destroy’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 511 of the 
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2012 (18 U.S.C. 922 note; Public Law 112–55; 125 Stat. 
632) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘for—’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘(1)’’; and 
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(2) by striking the semicolon and all that fol-
lows and inserting a period. 
SEC. 4. ELIMINATION OF LIMITATION ON IMPOSITION OF 
REQUIREMENT THAT FIREARMS DEALERS TO 
CONDUCT PHYSICAL CHECK OF FIREARMS 
INVENTORY. 
The matter under the heading ‘‘Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Ex-
penses’’ in title I of division B of the Consolidated and 
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (18 U.S.C. 
923 note; Public Law 112–55; 125 Stat. 609–610) is 
amended by striking the 7th proviso. 
SEC. 5. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR WILLFUL NONCOMPLI-
ANCE WITH FIREARM LICENSEE INVENTORY 
REPORTING ORDER. 
Section 924(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this 
subsection, a person licensed under this chapter who will-
fully violates an inventory reporting order issued under 
section 923(g)(1) shall be fined under this title, impris-
oned not more than 5 years, or both.’’. 
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SEC. 6. INELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSE 
OF PERSON WHOSE FIREARMS LICENSE HAS 
BEEN REVOKED. 
Section 923(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after the 1st sentence the following: 
‘‘The Attorney General may not accept such an applica-
tion from a person whose license issued under this chapter 
has been revoked.’’. 
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