Preventing Illegal Weapons Trafficking Act of 2022
Bill: S.4606 | Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy (D-MN)
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Preventing Illegal Weapons Trafficking Act of 2022
This bill requires federal agencies to develop a strategy to address the trafficking of firearm modification devices that are used to convert weapons into machine guns. It also requires specific reporting on these devices, and it provides for the seizure and forfeiture of proceeds relating to machinegun trafficking.

To address the importation and proliferation of firearm modification 
                                devices.

    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 ``Preventing Illegal Weapons 
Trafficking Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the term ``firearm modification device'' means any part 
        designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of 
        parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon 
        into a machinegun; and
            (2) the term ``machinegun'' has the meaning given the term 
        in section 5845 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

SEC. 3. PREVENTION AND INTERCEPTION STRATEGY.

    (a) Strategy.--Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
and the Secretary of the Treasury shall develop and implement a 
strategy to prevent or intercept the importation or trafficking of 
firearm modification devices, including by--
            (1) improving the capacity of Federal law enforcement 
        agencies to detect, intercept, and seize firearm modification 
        devices;
            (2) increasing the coordination between State and local law 
        enforcement agencies and Federal law enforcement agencies, 
        including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
        Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland 
        Security Investigations, and U.S. Customs and Border 
        Protection, when firearm modification devices are seized at 
        ports of entry;
            (3) ensuring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms 
        and Explosives collaborates with State and local law 
        enforcement agencies to identify and trace firearm modification 
        devices used in crimes, including identifying the source of the 
        device, whether from a foreign country or the United States;
            (4) investigating and collecting data regarding the origins 
        of firearm modification devices that are seized at ports of 
        entry or recovered by law enforcement agencies in the United 
        States in order to identify patterns and detect 
        vulnerabilities; and
            (5) improving the capacity of Federal law enforcement 
        agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms 
        and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and 
        Homeland Security Investigations, to detect, intercept, and 
        seize domestically produced firearm modification devices, 
        including firearm modification devices produced using 3D 
        printing technology.
    (b) Reports.--
            (1) Initial report.--Not later than 120 days after the date 
        of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, the Secretary 
        of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
        submit a report on the strategy developed and implemented under 
        subsection (a), which shall include relevant statistical 
        information, to--
                    (A) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
                    (B) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
                    (C) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
                Representatives; and
                    (D) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House 
                of Representatives.
            (2) Periodic updates.--Not less frequently than once every 
        2 years, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to the 
        congressional committees described in paragraph (1) an update 
        to the report submitted under that paragraph that describes 
        progress made on the implementation of the strategy developed 
        under subsection (a).

SEC. 4. FORFEITURE OF PROCEEDS FROM MACHINEGUN VIOLATIONS.

    Section 5872 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, and any proceeds 
        derived from the illegal trafficking of a machinegun,'' after 
        ``provisions of this chapter''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Illegal Trafficking of a Machinegun.--For purposes of 
subsection (a), the term `illegal trafficking of a machinegun' means 
the making, manufacture, importation, exportation, or transfer of a 
machinegun in violation of the provisions of this chapter or any 
regulations prescribed under this chapter.''.

SEC. 5. GUN TRAFFICKING REPORT.

    The Attorney General shall include information about firearm 
modification devices in the annual firearms trafficking report 
announced by the President on April 7, 2021, including--
            (1) the number of crimes in which firearm modification 
        devices are used; and
            (2) whether the firearm modification devices recovered from 
        crimes described in paragraph (1) are manufactured in the 
        United States or a foreign country.
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