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TRACE Act
Sponsored By: Representative Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced
Summary
**The TRACE Act would tighten federal tools to *limit illegal firearms trafficking*** by adding hidden serial numbers, stronger inventory and recordkeeping rules, and removing funding limits that have blocked enforcement. It focuses on making more guns traceable and giving authorities clearer authority to enforce tracing rules.
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- Manufacturers and builders: Would require a second, hidden serial number inside the receiver or visible only in infrared for firearms made in the U.S. after the rule takes effect. The Attorney General would have 12 months to issue final regulations and the law would treat unfinished frames or receivers and assembling from them as manufacturing.
- Dealers and records: Would require licensed firearms dealers to do physical inventory checks under rules the Attorney General must issue, and would require instant background-check records be preserved for 180 days with implementing regulations issued within 180 days.
- Enforcement funding: Would remove or modify multiple past appropriations restrictions tied to 18 U.S.C. 922(t), broadening funding authority for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to implement and enforce those tracing and recordkeeping provisions.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
New inventory checks for gun dealers
If enacted, licensed gun dealers would have to do a physical count of their firearms. They would follow rules set by the Attorney General. The Attorney General would have 180 days after enactment to issue those rules. This would add time and compliance costs for federal firearms licensees. The requirement would take effect upon enactment.
New rules for making and marking guns
If enacted, firearm makers and assemblers would face two big changes. First, within 12 months, the Attorney General would set rules so every gun made after the rule date has a second, hidden serial number inside the receiver or visible only in infrared light. Second, the bill would broaden what counts as a receiver and as manufacturing a firearm, including unfinished frames and 3D‑printed or machined parts and assembly from those parts. Making or selling those parts could count as making a firearm, while swapping barrels, stocks, or triggers would not. The new definitions would take effect upon enactment, and the marking rules would follow after the final regulation.
Background checks: longer records, no fees
If enacted, the background-check system would keep certain records longer. Records would be destroyed only after 180 days from the date the system meets the listed requirements. The Attorney General would have 180 days after enactment to issue rules to carry this out. The bill would also bar agencies from using appropriated funds to create or collect any tax or fee tied to running background checks under 18 U.S.C. 922(t). This could help enforcement but would raise privacy concerns, and it would limit new fees on buyers.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
IL • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank" [D-GA-4]
GA • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]
MI • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]
MA • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15]
NY • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Kennedy, Timothy M. [D-NY-26]
NY • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick, Sheila [D-FL-20]
FL • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
IL • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8]
IL • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
MO • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Auchincloss, Jake [D-MA-4]
MA • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Bell, Wesley [D-MO-1]
MO • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
CO • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Latimer, George [D-NY-16]
NY • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-10]
CA • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6]
IL • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
WA • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Johnson, Julie [D-TX-32]
TX • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4]
NC • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8]
VA • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
IL • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]
NY • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Rep. Min, Dave [D-CA-47]
CA • D
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Roll Call Votes
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