No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act
Sponsored By: Senator James Risch
Introduced
Summary
This bill would end the federal collection and retention of firearm transaction records from businesses that close, and require destruction of records already held. It targets the rules that govern what out-of-business federal firearms licensees must do with transaction records and how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives handles those records going forward.
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- Out-of-business federal firearms licensees: They would no longer be required to deliver firearm transaction records from closed businesses to the ATF.
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF): The ATF Director would be required to destroy records the agency collected that relate to closed dealers and eliminate statutory retention provisions. The bill sets a 90-day deadline for that destruction after enactment.
- Congress and oversight: The ATF Director must send Congress a written report that counts how many records were destroyed, creating a post-destruction accounting.
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Destroy federal firearm transaction records
If enacted, this bill would require the ATF Director to destroy each firearm transaction record delivered to the Attorney General under 18 U.S.C. § 923(g)(4). Destruction would have to be completed not later than 90 days after enactment. The bill would remove the statutory text that allowed the government to keep discontinued-firearms-business files and would end that federal collection and retention going forward. ATF would also have to send Congress a written report saying how many records it destroyed.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
James Risch
ID • R
Cosponsors
Cynthia Lummis
WY • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Steve Daines
MT • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Roger Marshall
KS • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Tim Sheehy
MT • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Pete Ricketts
NE • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Markwayne Mullin
OK • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Cindy Hyde-Smith
MS • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Mike Crapo
ID • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Bill Cassidy
LA • R
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Lindsey Graham
SC • R
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Rand Paul
KY • R
Sponsored 4/15/2026
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