Title: Unlawful Gun Buyer Alert Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Unlawful Gun Buyer Alert Act
This bill amends the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to require the national instant criminal background check system to notify certain law enforcement agencies when a firearm is transferred to a person who is subsequently determined to be prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4343 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4343

    To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide 
 notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a 
background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background 
 Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2017

  Mr. Cicilline (for himself, Ms. Norton, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Khanna, Mr. 
Blumenauer, and Mr. McGovern) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide 
 notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a 
background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background 
 Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, 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 ``Unlawful Gun Buyer Alert Act''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OF PROHIBITED PURCHASE 
              OR ATTEMPTED PURCHASE OF A FIREARM.

    (a) In General.--Title I of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 
2007 (18 U.S.C. 922 note) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``SEC. 107. NOTIFICATION TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OF PROHIBITED 
              PURCHASE OF A FIREARM.

    ``(a) In General.--In the case of a background check conducted by 
the National Instant Criminal Background Check System pursuant to the 
request of a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed 
dealer of firearms (as such terms are defined in section 921 of title 
18, United States Code), which background check determines that the 
receipt of a firearm by a person would violate subsection (g) or (n) of 
section 922 of title 18, United States Code, and such determination is 
made after 3 business days have elapsed since the licensee contacted 
the System and a firearm has been transferred to that person, the 
System shall notify the law enforcement agencies described in 
subsection (b).
    ``(b) Law Enforcement Agencies Described.--The law enforcement 
agencies described in this subsection are the law enforcement agencies 
that have jurisdiction over the location from which the licensee 
contacted the system and the law enforcement agencies that have 
jurisdiction over the location of the residence of the person for which 
the background check was conducted, as follows:
            ``(1) The field office of the Federal Bureau of 
        Investigation.
            ``(2) The local law enforcement agency.
            ``(3) The State law enforcement agency.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents of the NICS 
Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (18 U.S.C. 922 note) is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to section 106 the following:

``107. Notification to law enforcement agencies of prohibited purchase 
                            of a firearm.''.
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