Title: Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2017
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2017
This bill requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to submit a biannual report to Congress on the number of proposed firearm transfers where: (1) a licensed gun dealer submitted a background check through the National Instant Criminal History Background Check System (NICS), (2) NICS failed to respond to the licensed gun dealer within three business days, and (3) the licensed gun dealer completed the transfer.
The FBI must also report on the procedures followed once the transferee is discovered to be ineligible.


[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 57 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 57

   To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
report to the Congress semiannually on the number of firearms transfers 
  resulting from the failure to complete a background check within 3 
business days, and the procedures followed after it is discovered that 
 a firearm transfer has been made to a transferee who is ineligible to 
                           receive a firearm.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

 Ms. Jackson Lee introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
report to the Congress semiannually on the number of firearms transfers 
  resulting from the failure to complete a background check within 3 
business days, and the procedures followed after it is discovered that 
 a firearm transfer has been made to a transferee who is ineligible to 
                           receive a firearm.

    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 ``Accidental Firearms Transfers 
Reporting Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. FBI REPORT ON FIREARMS TRANSFERS RESULTING FROM THE FAILURE TO 
              COMPLETE A BACKGROUND CHECK WITHIN 3 BUSINESS DAYS, AND 
              THE PROCEDURES FOLLOWED AFTER IT IS DISCOVERED THAT A 
              FIREARM TRANSFER HAS BEEN MADE TO A TRANSFEREE WHO IS 
              INELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE A FIREARM.

    Within 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and 
every 6 months thereafter, the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
Senate a written report on--
            (1) the number of proposed firearm transfers--
                    (A) about which a person licensed under chapter 44 
                of title 18, United States Code, contacted the national 
                instant criminal background check system established 
                under section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence 
                Prevention Act;
                    (B) with respect to which the system failed to 
                respond to the licensee within 3 business days; and
                    (C) which were completed in the period covered by 
                the report; and
            (2) the procedures followed after it is discovered that a 
        firearm transfer has been made to a transferee who is 
        ineligible to receive a firearm.
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