Title: Armed Prohibited Persons Act of 2018
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Armed Prohibited Persons Act of 2018
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice to make grants to states to develop and operate systems to retrieve firearms from armed prohibited persons. An armed prohibited person is a person who lawfully purchases a firearm and later becomes prohibited from possessing the firearm due to an act or omission committed by such person.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5620 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5620

  To direct the Attorney General to make grants to States to develop 
      systems to retrieve firearms from armed prohibited persons.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2018

Mr. Panetta (for himself and Mr. Thompson of California) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Attorney General to make grants to States to develop 
      systems to retrieve firearms from armed prohibited persons.

    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 ``Armed Prohibited Persons Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS AUTHORIZED.

    The Attorney General may make grants to States to develop and 
operate systems to retrieve firearms from armed prohibited persons.

SEC. 3. APPLICATIONS.

    A State seeking a grant under this Act shall submit an application 
to the Attorney General at such time and containing such information as 
the Attorney General may reasonably require, including assurances 
that--
            (1) any system that the State operates will provide an 
        armed prohibited person with a reasonable opportunity to 
        lawfully dispose of such person's firearm before the State 
        takes any action to retrieve such a firearm;
            (2) the State will contribute pertinent information to the 
        national instant criminal background check system established 
        under section 103(b) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention 
        Act (34 U.S.C. 40901(b)); and
            (3) the State has a plan for the continued operation and 
        maintenance of the system or proposed system to retrieve 
        firearms from armed prohibited persons.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) The term ``armed prohibited person'' means a person--
                    (A) who possesses a firearm;
                    (B) who lawfully purchased such firearm in 
                accordance with all applicable Federal and State law; 
                and
                    (C) whose possession of such firearm, because of an 
                act or omission committed by such person, became 
                unlawful under applicable Federal and State law 
                (including section 922(g) of title 18, United States 
                Code).
            (2) The term ``firearm'' has the meaning given the term in 
        section 921(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code.
            (3) The term ``State'' means each of the several States, 
        the District of Columbia, and each commonwealth, territory, or 
        possession of the United States.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act for fiscal years 2019 through 2023.
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