Title: STOP Straw Purchases Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
STOP Straw Purchases Act
This bill amends the federal criminal code to establish new offenses:
Additionally, it establishes an enhanced penalty for a criminal offense involving a false statement to a licensed gun dealer in connection with a firearm acquisition, if the false statement misrepresents the actual identify of a firearm purchaser.
Finally, the bill directs the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to include, on the Firearms Transaction Record form, a statement outlining penalties for acting as the straw purchaser of a firearm.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5134 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5134

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to combat straw purchases of 
                               firearms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2018

Mr. Bacon (for himself and Mr. Carbajal) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to combat straw purchases of 
                               firearms.

    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 ``STOP Straw Purchases Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN PENALTIES FOR STRAW PURCHASERS OF FIREARMS.

    Section 924(a)(2) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``, except that in the case of a violation of section 
922(a)(6) involving deception as to the identity of the actual 
transferee of a firearm, the violator shall be fined not more than 
$750,000, imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both'' before the 
period.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON CONTINUING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE INVOLVING STRAW 
              PURCHASES OF FIREARMS; PROHIBITION ON OBTAINING FIREARM 
              BY INDUCING STRAW PURCHASE.

    (a) Prohibitions.--Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(aa) It shall be unlawful for any person, in or affecting 
interstate or foreign commerce, to--
            ``(1) induce, or act in concert with, another person to 
        engage in a continuing series of violations of subsection 
        (a)(6) involving deception as to the identity of the actual 
        transferee of a firearm, from which such person obtains 
        substantial income or resources; and
            ``(2) with respect to such other person, occupy a position 
        of organizer, a supervisory position, or any other position of 
        management.
    ``(bb) It shall be unlawful for any person, in or affecting 
interstate or foreign commerce, to obtain a firearm by inducing another 
person to violate subsection (a)(6) by falsely claiming to be the 
actual transferee of the firearm.''.
    (b) Penalties.--Section 924(a) of such title is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(8) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(aa) shall be fined not 
more than $1,000,000, imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
    ``(9) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(bb) shall be fined not 
more than $750,000, imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.''.

SEC. 4. INCLUSION IN FIREARMS TRANSACTION RECORD FORM OF OUTLINE OF 
              PENALTIES FOR THE STRAW PURCHASE OF A FIREARM.

    The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
Explosives shall ensure that the Firearms Transaction Record form used 
by the Bureau includes a statement outlining the penalties for acting 
as the straw purchaser of a firearm. For purposes of this section, a 
person acts as the straw purchaser of a firearm if the person violates 
section 922(a)(6) of title 18, United States Code, through deception as 
to the identity of the actual transferee of the firearm.
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