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Proposed Federal Senate Legislation SB2016

Legislation Overview

Title: Responsible Transfer of Firearms Act

Subject: Criminal justice information and records: Firearms and explosives: Licensing and registrations: Crime and law enforcement

Description: Responsible Transfer of Firearms Act This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime to sell or transfer a firearm to prohibited person, unless the transferor takes reasonable steps to determine that the recipient is not prohibited from firearm possession. (Current law makes it a crime to sell or transfer a firearm to a prohibited person if the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe the recipient is prohibited from firearm possession.)

Session: 114th Congress

Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Last Action Date: September 9, 2015

Link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d114:SN02016:@@@L&summ2=m&

Sponsors

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3 sponsors: Tim Kaine (D); Kirsten Gillibrand (D); Barbara Mikulski (D)

History

Chamber	Date	Action
Senate	Sep 9 2015	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Texts

Type	Date	Federal Link	Text
Introduced	Sep 14 2015	federal bill text	bill text

Amendments

Title	Description	Date	State Link	Text	Adopted
There are no amendments to this bill at this time

Committee

Chamber: S

Committee Name: Judiciary

Votes

There have not been any votes on this bill