I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4116 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to combat straw purchases of firearms 
and deter firearms trafficking. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 30, 2019 
Ms. KELLY of Illinois (for herself, Mr. MOULTON, and Mrs. MCBATH) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to combat straw 
purchases of firearms and deter firearms trafficking. 
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 ‘‘Prevent Gun Traf-
ficking Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON STRAW PURCHASES OF FIRE-
ARMS; PROHIBITION ON GUN TRAFFICKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 44 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended— 
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(1) in section 921(a), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(36) The term ‘family members’ means spouses, do-
mestic partners, parents and their children, including 
step-parents and their step-children, siblings, aunts or un-
cles and their nieces or nephews, or grandparents and 
their grandchildren.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 932. Gun trafficking 
‘‘(a) It shall be unlawful for any person (other than 
a licensee under this chapter), in or otherwise affecting 
interstate or foreign commerce, to knowingly purchase or 
acquire, or attempt to purchase or acquire, a firearm from 
or through such a licensee for the possession of a third 
party. 
‘‘(b) It shall be unlawful for any person (other than 
a licensee under this chapter), in or otherwise affecting 
interstate or foreign commerce, to solicit, hire, demand, 
or order another person to purchase, or attempt to pur-
chase, any firearm for the purpose of obtaining the fire-
arm for the person or selling or transferring the firearm 
to a third party. 
‘‘(c) The Attorney General shall ensure that the fire-
arm transaction record form required to be completed in 
connection with a firearm transaction includes a statement 
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outlining the penalties that may be imposed for violating 
subsection (a). 
‘‘(d) This section shall not apply to any firearm— 
‘‘(1) that is purchased or acquired by any per-
son, or that any person attempts to purchase or ac-
quire, as a bona fide gift between family members; 
or 
‘‘(2) that is purchased or acquired by an agent 
of a lawful business, or that an agent of a lawful 
business attempts to purchase or acquire, for the 
purpose of transferring to another agent of the busi-
ness, for lawful use in the business, 
if the purchaser or person acquiring the firearm has no 
reason to believe that the recipient of the firearm will use 
or intends to use the firearm in a crime or is prohibited 
from purchasing or possessing firearms under State or 
Federal law.’’. 
(b) FORFEITURE.—Section 982(a)(5) of such title is 
amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 
the end; and 
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(F) section 922(a)(1)(A) (related to unlicensed 
firearms sales); 
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‘‘(G) section 922(d) (relating to illegal gun 
transfers); or 
‘‘(H) section 932 (relating to gun trafficking).’’. 
(c) MONEY
LAUNDERING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
1956(c)(7)(D) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘sec-
tion 924(n)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 922(a)(1)(A), 922(d), 
924(n), or 932’’. 
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for such chapter is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘932. Gun trafficking.’’. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON DISPOSITION OF FIREARM TO 
PERSON INTENDING UNLAWFUL FURTHER 
DISPOSITION. 
Section 922(d) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended in the first sentence— 
(1) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by inserting after and below paragraph (9) 
the following: 
‘‘(10) intends to sell or otherwise dispose of the 
firearm or ammunition in violation of a Federal law, 
or to sell or otherwise dispose of the firearm or am-
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