HR4223Referred to Committee

Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-06-27
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Sponsor

Madeleine Dean
Madeleine Dean
Democrat · PA · Representative
Votes with party: 99.6% (544 recorded votes)

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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

2025-06-27

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Plain-English Summary

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.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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Crime and Law Enforcement
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