Title: Collectible Firearms Protection Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Collectible Firearms Protection Act
This bill amends the Arms Export Control Act to allow the importation of certain firearms listed as curios or relics into the United States by a licensed importer without the requirement of an authorization from or payment to the Department of State or the Department of Defense upon certification to the Department of Justice that such firearms are lawfully possessed under the laws of the exporting country.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1137 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1137

 To amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide that certain firearms 
listed as curios or relics may be imported into the United States by a 
 licensed importer without obtaining authorization from the Department 
     of State or the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 2017

    Mr. Collins of Georgia (for himself, Ms. Cheney, and Mr. Babin) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide that certain firearms 
listed as curios or relics may be imported into the United States by a 
 licensed importer without obtaining authorization from the Department 
     of State or the Department of Defense, 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 ``Collectible Firearms Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT.

    (a) In General.--Section 38(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2778(b)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking 
                ``subparagraph (A)'' and inserting ``subparagraph 
                (A)(i)'';
                    (B) in clause (i), by striking ``Secretary of the 
                Treasury'' and inserting ``Attorney General''; and
                    (C) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(ii) the person seeking to export such firearms to the 
        United States certifies to the Attorney General that the 
        firearms are lawfully possessed under the laws of the exporting 
        country.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(D) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, regulation, or 
Executive order, any such firearms described in subparagraph (B) may be 
imported into the United States by an importer licensed under the 
provisions of chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, without the 
importer or the person described in subparagraph (B)(ii)--
            ``(i) obtaining authorization from the Department of State 
        or the Department of Defense for the transfer of such firearms 
        by the person to the importer; or
            ``(ii) providing payment to the Department of State or the 
        Department of Defense of any of the proceeds of the transfer of 
        such firearms by the person to the importer.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) apply to 
the importation of firearms described in section 38(b)(1)(B) of the 
Arms Export Control Act (as amended by subsection (a) of this section) 
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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