Prevent Illegal Gun Resales Act

This bill would raise federal license fees for firearm manufacturers, importers, and dealers, and require dealer applicants to submit business practices to prevent guns from being diverted or sold to straw purchasers. Dealers would have to answer federal gun trace requests within 24 hours, keep trace records for 3 years, and update their practices after 5 or more lost, stolen, or crime-traced guns in a year. It would rewrite the federal gun trafficking crime, set new civil penalties and license revocation for dealers who transfer guns to certain other dealers, and change the intent standard for some dealer violations from "willfully" to "knowingly." It would also create a category of "high risk dealers" who must use electronic records, record video and audio of sales, and face inspections at least every two years.

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Sponsors

• Maxwell Frost Democrat sponsor
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