Title: To require the Inspector General, Department of Justice, to submit a report to the Congress on the number of firearm transaction denials issued by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that are referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for investigation, the number of prosecutions resulting from such investigations, and the number of firearms recovered by the Bureau in cases in which such a denial was issued after the firearm was transferred.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
This bill requires the Office of the Inspector General in the Department of Justice to report to Congress on the number of (1) firearm transfer denials issued by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that are referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for investigation; (2) prosecutions resulting from such investigations; and (3) firearms recovered by the ATF in cases in which a denial was issued by the system after a firearm was transferred.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 194 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 194

 To require the Inspector General, Department of Justice, to submit a 
  report to the Congress on the number of firearm transaction denials 
 issued by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that 
     are referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
Explosives for investigation, the number of prosecutions resulting from 
such investigations, and the number of firearms recovered by the Bureau 
   in cases in which such a denial was issued after the firearm was 
                              transferred.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2021

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Inspector General, Department of Justice, to submit a 
  report to the Congress on the number of firearm transaction denials 
 issued by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that 
     are referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
Explosives for investigation, the number of prosecutions resulting from 
such investigations, and the number of firearms recovered by the Bureau 
   in cases in which such a denial was issued after the firearm was 
                              transferred.

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

SECTION 1. REPORT ON FIREARM TRANSFERS DENIED AS A RESULT OF A NICS 
              CHECK.

    Within 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Inspector General, Department of Justice, shall prepare and submit to 
the Congress a written report--
            (1) on the number of firearm transactions with respect to 
        which the national instant criminal background check system 
        established under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act has 
        determined that receipt of a firearm by the prospective firearm 
        transferee would violate Federal or State law, and which have 
        been referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
        Explosives for investigation;
            (2) on the number of persons prosecuted by a United States 
        attorney for an alleged violation of Federal law in connection 
        with a transaction referred to in paragraph (1); and
            (3) assessing the efforts of the Bureau to seize firearms 
        received by persons--
                    (A) with respect to whom the system referred to in 
                paragraph (1) of this section was contacted pursuant to 
                section 922(t) of title 18, United States Code, in 
                relation to a firearm transaction;
                    (B) to whom a firearm was transferred after the 3-
                day period described in section 922(t)(1)(B)(ii) of 
                such title that applied with respect to the 
                transaction; and
                    (C) with respect to whom the system referred to in 
                paragraph (1) of this section subsequently made the 
                determination described in such paragraph.
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