II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2192 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 26 (legislative day, June 24), 2025 Mr. Padilla (for himself, Mr. Durbin , Mr. Blumenthal , Mr. Booker , Mr. Schiff , Mr. Murphy , Ms. Warren , Mr. Kim , and Ms. Duckworth ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To require the Attorney General to make publicly available a list of federally licensed firearms dealers with a high number of short time-to-crime firearm traces, and to prohibit Federal departments and agencies from contracting with such dealers.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Clean Hands Firearm Procurement Act . 2. Federal gun tracing notifications Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, shall publish or make publicly available a list of covered firearms dealers. 3. Prohibition on Federal contracts with certain Federal firearms dealers (a) Prohibition A Federal agency may not enter into a contract with a licensed dealer that has been listed as a covered firearms dealer during the current calendar year or either of the preceding 2 calendar years. (b) Waiver authority (1) In general Upon a request by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General may waive the applicability of subsection (a) to a contract, to protect the national security of the United States. (2) Notice The Attorney General shall immediately notify the Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate of any waiver granted under paragraph (1). Notice under this paragraph may be submitted in classified form. (c) Effective date This section shall take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 4. Definitions In this Act: (1) Covered firearms dealer The term covered firearms dealer means a licensed dealer with respect to whom, during not less than 2 of the 3 calendar years before the publication of the applicable list under section 2, the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has traced to the firearms business of the licensed dealer not less than 25 firearms with a time-to-crime of not more than 3 years. (2) Federal agency The term Federal agency means a department, agency, office, or other establishment in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States. (3) Firearm The term firearm has the meaning given that term in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code. (4) Licensed dealer The term licensed dealer has the meaning given that term in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code. (5) Time-to-crime The term time-to-crime means, with respect to a firearm, the period between the date of the last known retail sale of the firearm and the date a law enforcement agency recovers the firearm as a result of an actual or suspected purchase, use, or possession of the firearm in, or that constitutes, a crime.