Raise the Age Act
Bill: H.R.3015 | Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. (D-MD)
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Raise the Age Act
This bill establishes new restrictions on the sale or transfer of certain semiautomatic firearms to individuals under 21 years of age.
Specifically, this bill makes it unlawful for a licensed gun dealer, importer, manufacturer, or collector to sell or deliver a semiautomatic center-fire rifle that has (or has the capacity to accept) an ammunition feeding device with a capacity of more than five rounds to an individual who the licensee knows or has reasonable cause to believe is under age 21.
The prohibition does not apply if the individual under age 21 is a full-time law enforcement officer or active-duty member of the Armed Forces.
The bill also requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report on the operation of its public access line, including a description of information sharing protocols and recommendations for improving such protocols.

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a Federal firearms 
 licensee from selling or delivering certain semiautomatic centerfire 
 rifles to a person under 21 years of age, with exceptions for active 
duty military personnel and full-time law enforcement officers, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Raise the Age Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSEE SELLING OR DELIVERING 
              CERTAIN SEMIAUTOMATIC CENTERFIRE RIFLES TO A PERSON UNDER 
              21 YEARS OF AGE, WITH EXCEPTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 922(b)(1) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1)(A) any firearm or ammunition to any individual who 
        the licensee knows or has reasonable cause to believe has not 
        attained 18 years of age;
            ``(B) any semiautomatic centerfire rifle that has, or has 
        the capacity to accept, an ammunition feeding device with a 
        capacity exceeding 5 rounds, to any individual who the licensee 
        knows or has reasonable cause to believe has not attained 21 
        years of age and is not a qualified individual; or
            ``(C) if the firearm or ammunition is not a semiautomatic 
        centerfire rifle described in subparagraph (B) and is other 
        than a shotgun or rifle, or ammunition for a shotgun or rifle, 
        to any individual who the licensee knows or has reasonable 
        cause to believe has not attained 21 years of age;''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 922(c)(1) of such title is 
amended by striking ``in the case of any firearm'' and all that follows 
through ``eighteen years or more of age'' and inserting ``in the case 
of a semiautomatic centerfire rifle that has, or has the capacity to 
accept, an ammunition feeding device with a capacity exceeding 5 
rounds, I am at least 21 years of age or a qualified individual (as 
defined in section 921(a)(30) of title 18, United States Code), in the 
case of a firearm other than a semiautomatic centerfire rifle that has, 
or has the capacity to accept, an ammunition feeding device with a 
capacity exceeding 5 rounds, a shotgun or a rifle, I am at least 21 
years of age, or that, in the case of a shotgun or a rifle, I am at 
least 18 years of age''.
    (c) Qualified Individual Defined.--Section 921(a) of such title is 
amended by inserting after paragraph (29) the following:
    ``(30) The term `qualified individual' means--
            ``(A) a member of the Armed Forces on active duty; and
            ``(B) a full-time employee of the United States, a State, 
        or a political subdivision of a State who in the course of his 
        or her official duties is authorized to carry a firearm.
    ``(31) The term `ammunition feeding device' means a magazine, belt, 
drum, feed strip, or similar device, but does not include an attached 
tubular device which is only capable of operating with .22 caliber 
rimfire ammunition.''.

SEC. 3. OPERATION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION'S PUBLIC 
              ACCESS LINE.

    (a) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (in 
this section referred to as the ``FBI'') shall submit to the Committee 
on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of 
the House of Representatives a report regarding operation of the FBI's 
public access line.
    (b) Matters Included.--The report required by subsection (a) shall, 
at a minimum, include the following:
            (1) A description of the protocols and procedures in effect 
        with respect to information-sharing between the public access 
        line and the field offices of the FBI.
            (2) Recommendations for improving the protocols and 
        procedures to improve the information-sharing.
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