Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Session: 119th Congress
Title: Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2025
Description: A bill to address gun violence, improve the availability of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, address mental illness in the criminal justice system, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 7, 2025
Session: 119th Congress
Title: Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2025
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to enhance penalties for theft of a firearm from a Federal firearms licensee.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 3, 2025
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2023
Description: A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to enhance penalties for theft of a firearm from a Federal firearms licensee.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 8, 2023
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Stopping the Fraudulent Sales of Firearms Act
Description: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to make fraudulent dealings in firearms and ammunition unlawful, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 8, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Federal Firearm Licensee Act
Description: To modernize the business of selling firearms.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Prevent Gun Trafficking Act
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to combat straw purchases of firearms and deter firearms trafficking.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: October 19, 2021
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019
Description: Makes trafficking in firearms a stand-alone criminal offense. A person who commits or conspires to commit a gun trafficking offense is subject to criminal penalties—a prison term of up to 20 years (or up to 25 years, if the person also acted as an organizer), a fine, or both.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: April 12, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: NICS Denial Notification Act of 2019
Description: Requires the Department of Justice to notify state and local law enforcement authorities following a firearms-related background check that results in a denial.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 26, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019
Description: Makes trafficking in firearms a stand-alone criminal offense. A person who commits or conspires to commit a gun trafficking offense is subject to criminal penalties—a prison term of up to 20 years (or up to 25 years, if the person also acted as an organizer), a fine, or both.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 7, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act
Description: Requires the national instant criminal background check system to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and relevant state and local law enforcement agencies when the system indicates that a prospective firearm transferee is illegally or unlawfully in the United States.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
Last Action Date: April 8, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Notify ICE Act
Description: Requires the national instant criminal background check system to report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the individuals determined to be ineligible to receive a firearm due to their illegal or unlawful presence in the United States.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: April 8, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act
Description: Establishes stand-alone criminal offenses for trafficking in firearms and straw purchasing of firearms. The bill expands the categories of prohibited persons (i.e., persons barred from receiving or possessing a firearm or ammunition) to include persons who intend (1) to sell or transfer a firearm or ammunition to a prohibited person, (2) to sell or transfer a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense, or (3) to unlawfully export. It increases the maximum prison term for the sale or transfer of a firearm to or the receipt or possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. The bill revises the existing prohibition on transferring a firearm knowing that it will be used to commit a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense. It broadens the scope of unlawful conduct and increases the maximum prison term for a violator. The bill also revises the existing prohibition on smuggling a firearm into the United States with the intent to unlawfully import or to promote a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense. It broadens the scope of unlawful conduct and increases the maximum prison term for a violator. Finally, the bill makes it a crime to smuggle a firearm or ammunition out of the United States, or conspire or attempt to do so, with the intent to unlawfully export or to promote a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: January 3, 2019
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