Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act

Bill: 116-hr-5507
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Crist, Charlie [D-FL-13]
Introduced: 2019-12-19
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Firearms and explosives
Latest action: action_date: 2020-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-12-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires a nonimmigrant alien to get Department of Justice (DOJ) approval before purchasing a firearm. Specifically, the party transferring the firearm to the alien must receive a copy of the DOJ waiver or confirm with the DOJ that such an alien falls within specified exceptions, such as the alien possessing a U.S. hunting license. Currently, a nonimmigrant alien may acquire a firearm if the alien qualifies for one of the specified exceptions without acquiring DOJ approval.</p> </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5507 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 19, 2019 Mr. Crist (for himself, Mr. Rutherford , and Mrs. Demings ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 18, United States Code, to require an alien lawfully admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa to obtain the approval of the Attorney General before receiving a firearm.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act . 2. Requirement that alien lawfully admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa obtain the approval of the Attorney General before receiving a firearm (a) In general Section 922(y) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking , (g)(5)(B), ; (B) by inserting to the transfer or other disposition of a firearm before to any alien ; and (C) by striking if that and inserting if the transferor has received a copy of the waiver issued to the alien under paragraph (3), or has confirmed with the Attorney General that the ; and (2) in paragraph (3)(B)(i), by inserting except in the case of an alien described in a subparagraph of paragraph (2), before demonstrate . (b) Effective date The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.