RRLEF Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Amo, Gabe [D-RI-1]
Introduced
Summary
Ties Justice Assistance Grant eligibility to whether agencies transfer or buy firearms from ATF‑listed dealers flagged by rapid crime traces. The bill would bar grant applicants and their grantees from purchasing or receiving firearms from any dealer on a published ATF list and would expand ATF tracing disclosures.
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- State and local law enforcement agencies would need to certify they do not transfer or purchase firearms from any dealer on ATF's covered list to receive Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants.
- Agencies would be notified by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives within 120 days and annually if a firearm they transferred was traced as used or suspected in a criminal offense.
- Licensed firearm dealers would be listed as "covered" if, in at least two of the prior three calendar years, ATF traced 25 or more firearms from their business with a "short time‑to‑crime" of three years or less.
- The ATF would publish the covered dealer list and the bill removes certain date-based limits on public disclosure of ATF tracing data, broadening public access.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
ATF dealer list and more disclosure
If enacted, ATF would post a public list of covered licensed gun dealers within 120 days and then each year. A dealer would be listed if 25 or more traced guns had a short time-to-crime in at least two of the last three years. Short time-to-crime means three years or less from sale to crime recovery. ATF would also tell a State or local agency when a gun that agency transferred was traced to a crime. The bill would roll back prior limits on sharing ATF tracing data, allowing broader public access.
Police grant applicants face dealer limits
If enacted, police agencies that apply for Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants would face a new rule. Applicants, and all their grantees and subgrantees, would have to certify they do not transfer firearms to, or purchase from, any licensed dealer on ATF’s covered dealer list at the time of certification. This condition would take effect upon enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Amo, Gabe [D-RI-1]
RI • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8]
MD • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Johnson (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Rep. Magaziner, Seth [D-RI-2]
RI • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Bonamici
OR • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Jackson (IL)
IL • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]
MA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]
NY • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Mullin
CA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
WA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
IL • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Espaillat
NY • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Swalwell
CA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Smith (WA)
WA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4]
PA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Rep. Frost, Maxwell [D-FL-10]
FL • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Casten
IL • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4]
NC • D
Sponsored 9/19/2025
Rep. Ross, Deborah K. [D-NC-2]
NC • D
Sponsored 9/19/2025
Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12]
PA • D
Sponsored 9/23/2025
Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
NV • D
Sponsored 9/23/2025
Rep. Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5]
GA • D
Sponsored 9/26/2025
Randall
WA • D
Sponsored 10/17/2025
Cisneros
CA • D
Sponsored 11/4/2025
Scott, David
GA • D
Sponsored 12/3/2025
Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28]
CA • D
Sponsored 5/12/2026
Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
OH • D
Sponsored 5/12/2026
Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
MA • D
Sponsored 5/12/2026
Roll Call Votes
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