Enforce Existing Gun Laws Act

Bill: 113-hr-1728
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2013-04-25
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appropriations

Business records

Criminal justice information and records

Firearms and explosives

Freedom of information

Historical and cultural resources

Licensing and registrations

Retail and wholesale trades

Trade restrictions
Latest action: action_date: 2013-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Enforce Existing Gun Laws Act - Repeals provisions of specified consolidated appropriations acts that:</p> <ul> <li>prohibit the use of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) appropriations for salaries or administrative expenses in connection with consolidating or centralizing, within the Department of Justice (DOJ), records of the acquisition and disposition of firearms maintained by federal firearms licensees;</li> <li>prohibit expending funds appropriated to ATF to promulgate or implement any rule requiring a physical inventory of any firearms business;</li> <li>prohibit using appropriated funds for any criminal background check system that does not require the destruction of identifying information submitted for a transferee within 24 hours after the system advises a licensee that the transferee's receipt of a firearm is not prohibited;</li> <li>prohibit the use of ATF appropriations to disclose the contents of the Firearms Trace System database or any information required to be kept or reported on the acquisition and disposition of firearms by firearms licencees, except to a law enforcement agency, a prosecutor in connection with in a criminal investigation or prosecution;</li> <li>prohibit using appropriations to take any action on a Freedom of Information Act request with respect to certain records collected, maintained, or provided by law enforcement agencies in connection with arson or explosives incidents or the tracing of a firearm;</li> <li>require ATF data releases to include language that would make clear that firearms trace data cannot be used to draw broad conclusions about firearms-related crime;</li> <li>prohibit the use of appropriations to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of any federal employee to implement an amendment to regulations permitting the importation of certain firearms classified as curios or relics, to change the definition of "curios or relics" under such regulations, or to deny an application for a permit to import U.S.-origin curios or relics firearms, parts, or ammunition; and </li> <li>prohibit the use of ATF appropriations to deny issuance or renewal of a firearms license due to a licensee's lack of business activity.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1728 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 25, 2013 Mr. Rangel introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To repeal certain appropriations riders that limit the ability of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to administer the Federal firearms laws.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Enforce Existing Gun Laws Act . 2. Repeal of certain appropriations riders that limit the ability of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to administer the Federal firearms laws (a) Prohibition on consolidation or centralization in the Department of Justice of firearms acquisition and disposition records maintained by Federal firearms licensees The matter under the heading Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses in title I of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 ( 18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public Law 112–55 ; 125 Stat. 609–610) is amended by striking the 1st proviso. (b) Prohibition on imposition of requirement that firearms dealers conduct physical check of firearms inventory The matter under the heading Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses in title II of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 ( Public Law 113–6 ) is amended by striking the 5th proviso. (c) Requirement that instant check records be destroyed within 24 hours Section 511 of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (18 U.S.C. 922 note; Public Law 112–55 ; 125 Stat. 632) is amended— (1) by striking — and all that follows through (1) ; and (2) by striking the semicolon and all that follows and inserting a period. (d) Limitations relating to firearms trace data (1) Tiahrt amendments (A) The matter under the heading Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses in title I of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 ( 18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public Law 112–55 ; 125 Stat. 609–610) is amended by striking the 6th proviso. (B) The 6th proviso under the heading Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses in title II of division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 ( 18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public Law 111–117 ; 123 Stat. 3128–3129) is amended by striking beginning in fiscal year 2010 and thereafter and inserting in fiscal year 2010 . (C) The 6th proviso under the heading Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses in title II of division B of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 ( 18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public Law 111–8 ; 123 Stat. 574–576) is amended by striking beginning in fiscal year 2009 and thereafter and inserting in fiscal year 2009 . (D) The 6th proviso under the heading Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses in title II of division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 ( 18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public Law 110–161 ; 121 Stat. 1903–1904) is amended by striking beginning in fiscal year 2008 and thereafter and inserting in fiscal year 2008 . (E) The 6th proviso under the heading Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses in title I of the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 ( 18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public Law 109–108; 119 Stat. 2295–2296) is amended by striking with respect to any fiscal year . (F) The 6th proviso under the heading in title I of division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public Law 108–447 ; 118 Stat. 2859–2860) is amended by striking with respect to any fiscal year . (2) Prohibition on processing of Freedom of Information Act requests about arson or explosives incidents or firearm traces Section 644 of division J of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 ( 5 U.S.C. 552 note; 117 Stat. 473–474) is repealed. (e) Prohibition on use of firearms trace data To draw broad conclusions about firearms-Related crime (1) Section 514 of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 ( Public Law 113–6 ) is repealed. (2) Section 516 of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55; 125 Stat. 633) is repealed. (f) Prohibitions relating to curios or relics and importation of surplus military firearm (1) The matter under the heading Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses in title II of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Act, 2013 ( Public Law 113–6 ) is amended by striking the 1st proviso. (2) Section 519 of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 ( Public Law 113–6 ) is repealed. (g) Prohibition on denial of federal firearms license due to lack of business activity The matter under the heading Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—Salaries and Expenses in title II of division B of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 ( Public Law 113–6 ) is amended by striking the 6th proviso.