Title: Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act of 2019
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act of 2019
This bill requires chief law enforcement officers (CLEOs) to be notified of pending firearm transfers and given an opportunity to object to such transfers.
Specifically, the Department of Justice must notify the CLEO of the jurisdiction in which the individual resides that the individual has an application pending for a firearm transfer. The CLEO then has 90 days to (1) certify that there is no objection to the transfer; or (2) certify that the individual poses a danger to themselves or others, or there is a reasonable likelihood that the individual will use the firearm for unlawful purposes. (Prior to 2016, individuals were required to obtain a certification from the CLEO. Currently, individuals are only required to notify the CLEO that the individual is submitting an application to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.)

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3404 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3404

  To amend the National Firearms Act to require that local chief law 
 enforcement officers be notified of, and provided a 90-day period to 
                        deny, firearm transfers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2019

   Ms. Wexton (for herself, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Connolly, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
 Neguse, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Cicilline, and Mr. Cisneros) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Firearms Act to require that local chief law 
 enforcement officers be notified of, and provided a 90-day period to 
                        deny, firearm transfers.

    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 ``Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer 
Firearm Transfers Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF LOCAL CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN CASE OF 
              FIREARM TRANSFER.

    (a) In General.--Section 5812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by striking ``; and (6)'' and inserting ``(6) the Secretary 
has notified the chief law enforcement officer of the jurisdiction in 
which the transferee primarily resides that such application is 
pending, and such officer either (A) certifies that there is no 
objection to the transfer, or (B) does not, before the end of the 90-
day period beginning on the date of such notification, certify to the 
Secretary that (i) the transferee poses a danger to the transferee or 
others, or (ii) there is a reasonable likelihood the transferee will 
use the firearm for unlawful purposes; and (7)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
with respect to applications filed after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
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