# 119-s-3289: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2025

119-s-3289, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] (D-RI); status introduced (as of 2026-10-04).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-3289
- Congress: 119
- Title: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-12-01
- Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] (D-RI)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-04

## Summary

**Centralized electronic firearm tracing database**. This bill would expand the ATF's National Tracing Center to create and maintain searchable electronic records covering importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, and other disposition of firearms. - Licensees. Federal firearms licensees would have to submit the records required under the licensing rules or give the ATF electronic access to those records. They could voluntarily relinquish paper records after 10 years or for acquisition/disposition books after 10 years with no open disposition entries. - ATF and law enforcement. The National Tracing Center would have up to 3 years to build the databases and could remotely query them for bona fide law enforcement investigations, for foreign intelligence purposes as defined in FISA section 101, or during compliance inspections. With a State's permission, the NTC could access that State's firearm registration or pawnbroker records system. - Search limits and data content. Databases would be searchable by date of acquisition or disposition, license number, and firearm descriptors such as manufacturer, importer, model, serial number, type, and caliber or gauge. They must not be searchable by personally identifiable information and search results must include the full contents of the relevant records. - Oversight. The Comptroller General would audit ATF and the National Tracing Center for compliance within 1 year of enactment and then every 2 years and report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] (D-OR), 2025-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- New national gun-trace database: benefit, high. This bill would require the ATF National Tracing Center to build and keep an electronic, searchable database of licensee records about firearm importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposition. The database would have to be set up not later than 3 years after enactment. License…

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## Sources
- [119-s-3289 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3289)

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- [119-s-5071: Children's Safe Welcome Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5071)
- [119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3990)
- [119-s-2823: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2823)
- [119-s-2763: Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2763)
- [119-s-3869: Healthy Families Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3869)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3289 (as of 2026-10-04).