State Access to Firearms Evading Revocation Act

State Access to Firearms Evading Revocation Act

The bill expands the categories of persons to whom the sale or disposition of a firearm or ammunition is prohibited.

Specifically, the bill adds a new category of prohibited persons: persons (1) who have had a state permit or license to purchase, own, or possess a firearm revoked and not reinstated; or (2) who have been ordered by a state court to surrender all firearms and such firearms have not been lawfully returned.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2426 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2426

 To prohibit the transfer of a firearm to a person whose State license 
 to purchase, own, or possess a firearm has been revoked, or a person 
    who has been ordered by a State court to surrender all firearms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 8, 2021

  Mr. Raskin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the transfer of a firearm to a person whose State license 
 to purchase, own, or possess a firearm has been revoked, or a person 
    who has been ordered by a State court to surrender all firearms.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``State Access to Firearms Evading 
Revocation Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER OF FIREARM TO PERSON WHOSE STATE 
              LICENSE TO PURCHASE, OWN, OR POSSESS A FIREARM HAS BEEN 
              REVOKED OR WHO HAS BEEN ORDERED BY A STATE COURT TO 
              SURRENDER ALL FIREARMS.

    Section 922(d) of title 18, United States Code, is amended in the 
first sentence--
            (1) in paragraph (8)(B)(ii), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10)(A) has had a license or permit, issued by a State in 
        which the person has resided that allows the person to 
        purchase, own, or possess a firearm, revoked by the State, and 
        has not had the license or permit reinstated; or
            ``(B) has been ordered by a court of such a State to 
        surrender all firearms owned or possessed by the person, and 
        has not had the firearms lawfully returned.''.
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