tion shall give priority to completing the background check 
relating to the transfer.’’. 
(c) PROHIBITION
ON DESTRUCTION
OF RECORDS 
RELATING TO FIREARM TRANSFER BEFORE COMPLETION 
OF BACKGROUND CHECK.—Section 103 of the Brady 
Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901), as 
amended by subsection (b)(1) of this section, is amended 
by redesignating subsections (k) and (l) as subsections (l) 
and (m) and inserting after subsection (j) the following: 
‘‘(k) PROHIBITION ON DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS 
RELATING TO FIREARM TRANSFER BEFORE COMPLETION 
OF RELATED BACKGROUND CHECK.—The system estab-
lished under this section may not destroy any records of 
the system relating to a proposed or completed firearm 
transfer, before completion of the criminal background 
check with respect to the prospective or actual trans-
feree.’’. 
SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORTS ON DEFAULT FIREARM TRANS-
FERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Within 120 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall 
make accessible to the public a written report on— 
(1) the number of firearms transferred as de-
scribed in section 922(t)(7) of title 18, United 
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States Code, during the period covered by the re-
port; 
(2) the number of the firearms described in 
paragraph (1) of this subsection with respect to 
which the national instant criminal background 
check system established under section 103 of the 
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act completed 
the background check; 
(3) of the number described by paragraph (2) 
of this subsection— 
(A) the number with respect to which the 
system provided the unique identification num-
ber under section 922(t)(1)(B)(i) of such title; 
and 
(B) the number with respect to which in-
formation available to the system demonstrated 
that receipt of a firearm by the transferee 
would violate subsection (g) or (n) of section 
922 of such title or State law; and 
(C) in each case described by subpara-
graph (B), the reason for indicating that the re-
ceipt would be a violation referred to in sub-
paragraph (B), including any specific prohib-
iting criteria that would bar the transferee from 
receipt of a firearm; 
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(4) of the number described by paragraph 
(3)(B) of this subsection, the number of firearms 
that were retrieved from the transferee, and the 
number of firearms that were not retrieved from the 
transferee, with each number broken down by the 
field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms, and Explosives and the State involved; 
and 
(5) in the case of the 1st report under this sec-
tion, the number of requests for criminal back-
ground checks received by the system in the pre-
ceding 5 years the records of which were purged 
from the system without resolution. 
(b) RULE
OF INTERPRETATION.—A report under 
subsection (a) shall be considered an annual statistical re-
port and statistical aggregate data for purposes of the 6th 
proviso under the heading ‘‘BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TO-
BACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES—SALARIES AND EX-
PENSES’’ in the Department of Justice Appropriations 
Act, 2012 (title II of division B of Public Law 112–55). 
Æ 
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