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Bill · 119th Congress · S 4776

Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act

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Introduced 2026-06-11Topic: public safety · criminal justice · technology privacy

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act This bill removes limitations on the authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to conduct activities related to the administration of federal firearms laws. Specifically, the bill removes provisions that limit the use of firearms tracing data, limit the disclosure of data under the Freedom of Information Act, prohibit imposing a requirement that gun dealers conduct a physical inventory, prohibit consolidating or centralizing records maintained by federal firearm licensees (e.g., gun dealers), and require background check records to be destroyed within 24 hours.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2026-06-11SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.refer
2026-06-11Introduced in Senateintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.