Protecting Gun Owners’ Privacy Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5949 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5949

To amend title 18, United States Code, to enhance the privacy of legal 
                  gun owners, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 12, 2023

  Mr. Rosendale (for himself, Mr. Gosar, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Moore of 
 Alabama, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Buck, Mr. Brecheen, Mr. Duncan, and 
               Mr. Collins) introduced the following bill

                            October 25, 2023

               Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to enhance the privacy of legal 
                  gun owners, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Protecting Gun Owners' Privacy Act 
of 2023''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCEMENT OF PRIVACY OF LEGAL GUN OWNERS.

    (a) Disposition of Records.--Section 923(g) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(8)(A) Nothing in this paragraph shall be interpreted to expand 
or restrict the authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, 
and Explosives to carry out any provision of this chapter.
    ``(B)(i) A department, agency, or instrumentality of the Federal 
Government may not store any record or bound volume required under this 
chapter that is received by the department, agency, or instrumentality 
on or after the date of the enactment of this clause, unless the record 
or bound volume is needed in an ongoing bona fide criminal 
investigation or prosecution.
    ``(ii) In the case of such a record or bound volume received by 
such a department, agency, or instrumentality before such date of 
enactment, the department, agency, or instrumentality shall destroy the 
record and any information from the record or bound volume that the 
department, agency, or instrumentality has stored, unless the record or 
bound volume is needed in an ongoing bona fide criminal investigation 
or prosecution.
    ``(C) A department or agency of the Federal Government may not 
acquire directly from a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or 
licensed dealer a record required to be maintained by the licensee 
under this chapter. On request of such a department or agency, the 
Attorney General may provide the department or agency, as the case may 
be, with such a record obtained by the Attorney General pursuant to 
this chapter.''.
    (b) Limitation on Content of Required Reports and Records.--
            (1) Multiple firearm sales reports.--Section 923(g)(3)(A) 
        of such title is amended by adding at the end the following: 
        ``The Attorney General may not require or authorize any 
        personal identifying information to be included on the form.''.
            (2) Firearm transaction records.--Section 926 of such title 
        is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) The Attorney General may not require or authorize any 
personal identifying information of an individual seeking to acquire a 
firearm to be included in any record required to be kept pursuant to 
this chapter.''.
    (c) Definition of Personal Identifying Information.--Section 921(a) 
of such title is amended by inserting after paragraph (30) the 
following:
    ``(31) The term `personal identifying information' means any 
representation of information that permits the identity of an 
individual to whom the information applies to be reasonably inferred by 
either direct or indirect means, including information enabling the 
contacting of the individual.''.
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