Title: To provide for a 3-day waiting period before a person may receive a handgun, with exceptions.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
This bill amends the federal criminal code to establish a three-day waiting period for certain handgun transfers.
Specifically, the bill makes it unlawful for a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer to sell or transfer a handgun to an unlicensed individual unless three business days have elapsed since the licensee initiated a background check.
Additionally, the bill makes it unlawful for an unlicensed individual to receive a handgun purchased or borrowed from another unlicensed individual unless at least three days have elapsed since the recipient most recently offered to purchase or borrow the handgun.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4018 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4018

  To provide for a 3-day waiting period before a person may receive a 
                       handgun, with exceptions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 11, 2017

Mr. Krishnamoorthi introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for a 3-day waiting period before a person may receive a 
                       handgun, with exceptions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. 3-DAY WAITING PERIOD REQUIRED BEFORE RECEIPT OF A HANDGUN, 
              WITH EXCEPTIONS.

    (a) Transfers Between Persons Who Are Not Firearms Licensees.--
Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(aa)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful 
for a person not licensed under this chapter, in or affecting 
interstate or foreign commerce, to receive a handgun purchased or 
borrowed from another person not licensed under this chapter unless at 
least 3 days have elapsed since the recipient most recently offered to 
so purchase or borrow the handgun.
    ``(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to a handgun loan 
that meets the conditions of subsection (t)(7).''.
    (b) Transfers by Firearms Licensees to Non-licensees.--Section 
922(t) of such title is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking subparagraph (B) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(B)(i) in the case of a transfer that is not the purchase 
        of a handgun, or is a handgun loan that meets the conditions of 
        paragraph (7)--
                    ``(I) the system provides the licensee with a 
                unique identification number; or
                    ``(II) 3 business days (meaning a day on which 
                State offices are open) have elapsed since the licensee 
                contacted the system, and the system has not notified 
                the licensee that the receipt of a firearm by such 
                other person would violate subsection (g) or (n) of 
                this section; and
            ``(ii) in the case of a transfer that is the purchase of a 
        handgun, or is a handgun loan that does not meet the conditions 
        of paragraph (7), 3 business days (meaning a day on which State 
        offices are open) have elapsed since the licensee contacted the 
        system, and the system has not notified the licensee that the 
        receipt of a firearm by such other person would violate 
        subsection (g) or (n) of this section; and''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(7) A handgun loan meets the conditions of this paragraph if the 
loan meets the following conditions:
            ``(A) The borrower is the spouse, domestic partner 
        registered as such under State law, or any of the following 
        relations, whether by consanguinity, adoption, or steprelation, 
        of the lender:
                    ``(i) Parent.
                    ``(ii) Child.
                    ``(iii) Sibling.
                    ``(iv) Grandparent.
                    ``(v) Grandchild.
            ``(B) The lender has not loaned the handgun to the borrower 
        on more than 5 prior occasions in the calendar year.
            ``(C) The loan is for any lawful purpose.
            ``(D) The loan is for a period of not more than 30 days.''.
    (c) Penalties.--Section 924(a)(1)(B) of such title is amended by 
striking ``or (q)'' and inserting ``(q), or (aa)''.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to conduct engaged in after the 90-day period that begins with 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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