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119-hr-6223119th Congress

Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Pou, Nellie [D-NJ-9]

Introduced

Summary

Creates a centralized, electronic firearm tracing database. This bill would require the ATF National Tracing Center to build searchable electronic databases of records that licensees must keep and set rules for who may query them and how.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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New federal gun-records database

This bill would require the ATF National Tracing Center to build an electronic, searchable database within 3 years. The database would cover all licensee records about importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposition of firearms. It would be searchable by date, license number, and gun details like make, model, serial number, type, and caliber or gauge. The database would not be searchable by a person’s name or other personally identifiable information. Licensed dealers could give ATF electronic access and could voluntarily hand over old paper records after 10 years. The ATF tracing center could query the database only for three reasons: a bona fide law enforcement investigation, foreign intelligence (as defined in FISA), or a compliance inspection of a licensee who turned in paper records. The ATF could also access state registration or pawnbroker systems only if the State permits it.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Pou, Nellie [D-NJ-9]

NJ • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

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