Title: Secure Background Checks Act of 2021
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Secure Background Checks Act of 2021
This bill extends federal restrictions on the receipt, possession, shipment, and transportation of firearms and ammunition to two new categories of persons:
Additionally, the bill imposes criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both—on an individual who ships, transports, or receives a firearm or ammunition while under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year.


[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5080 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5080

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a person who fails 
 to meet age and residential requirements from shipping, transporting, 
   possessing, or receiving firearms and ammunition, to increase the 
    penalties for transfer of a firearm to any person who is under 
                  indictment, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 23, 2021

Mr. Neguse (for himself, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Perlmutter, Ms. Dean, and 
 Ms. Escobar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a person who fails 
 to meet age and residential requirements from shipping, transporting, 
   possessing, or receiving firearms and ammunition, to increase the 
    penalties for transfer of a firearm to any person who is under 
                  indictment, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Secure Background Checks Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. AGE AND RESIDENTIAL REQUIREMENT.

    Section 922(g) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (8)(C)(ii), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (9), by striking the comma at the end and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (9) the following:
            ``(10) who fails to meet the age requirement--
                    ``(A) described in subsection (b)(1); and
                    ``(B) in the person's State of residence; or
            ``(11) who--
                    ``(A) does not reside in (or if the person is a 
                corporation or other business entity, does not maintain 
                a place of business in) the State in which the 
                licensee's place of business is located; and
                    ``(B) is not subject to an exception under 
                subparagraph (A) or (B) of subsection (b)(3),''.

SEC. 3. PENALTIES.

    Section 924(a)(2) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``, or (o)'' and inserting ``(n), or (o)''.
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