Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties.

Highlights:

• Prohibits an individual who is not a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer from transferring firearms to another individual (Sec. 3).

• Specifies that the aforementioned provision on firearm transfers does not apply to the following individuals, including (Sec. 3):

• Law enforcement agencies, officers, private security professionals, or members of the armed forces as long as they are acting in the scope of their employment and official duties;

• Transfers or exchanges that are a loan or gift between spouses, partners, parents and their children, siblings, aunts and uncles and their nieces or nephews, and grandparents and their grandchildren;

• Transfers to an executor, administrator, trustee, or personal representative of an estate or trust that occurs upon the death of another individual;

• Temporary transfers that are necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to oneself, family or household members, or others including; 

• Domestic violence;

• Dating partner violence;

• Sexual assault;

• Stalking; and

• Domestic abuse;

• Transfers approved by the US Attorney General;

• Temporary transfers at shooting ranges, galleries, or other areas designated for target shooting; or

• While reasonably necessary for hunting, trapping, pest control on a farm or ranch, or fishing.

• Specifies that nothing in this bill authorizes the establishment either directly or indirectly, of a national firearm registry (Sec. 3).

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text