Title: End the Normalized Delay of Suppressors Act of 2020
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
End the Normalized Delay of Suppressors Act of 2020
This bill modifies procedural requirements related to the transfer of a silencer.
Specifically, it permits the transfer of a silencer if 90 days have elapsed since the application to transfer the silencer was filed, and the application has not been denied.
The bill also establishes reporting requirements on the timeliness of criminal background checks conducted with respect to certain prospective firearm transfers.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6126 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6126

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the transfer of a 
    silencer after the end of the 90-day period beginning with the 
                     application for such transfer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2020

  Mr. Steube (for himself, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Watkins) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the transfer of a 
    silencer after the end of the 90-day period beginning with the 
                     application for such transfer.

    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 ``End the Normalized Delay of 
Suppressors Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. 90-DAY APPLICATION PERIOD FOR TRANSFER OF SILENCERS.

    (a) In General.--Section 5812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) 90-Day Application Period for Silencers.--In the case of a 
transfer of a silencer, such transfer may be made, notwithstanding 
subsection (a), if 90 days have elapsed since the application required 
by such subsection was filed with respect to such silencer, and such 
application has not been denied.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to transfers more than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.

SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORTS TO CONGRESS ON TIMELINESS OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND 
              CHECKS OF PROSPECTIVE FIREARM PURCHASERS.

    The Attorney General shall annually prepare and submit to the 
majority and minority leader of each House of Congress a written report 
on the timeliness of the criminal background checks conducted with 
respect to firearm transfer applications under section 5812 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The report shall set forth information 
with respect to each type of firearm specified in section 5845(a) of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and include information such as the 
average case disposition time, the number of criminal background checks 
(other than of prospective transfers of silencers) that took more than 
180 days to complete, and the number of applications that, when 
initially filed, were incomplete.
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