Background Check Completion Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3458 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3458

   To prohibit firearms dealers from selling a firearm prior to the 
                   completion of a background check.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 11, 2025

  Mr. Blumenthal (for himself, Ms. Alsobrooks, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Blunt 
   Rochester, Mr. Booker, Mr. Coons, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. 
 Gillibrand, Mr. Heinrich, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Kim, Mr. Kelly, 
  Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Markey, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Reed, Mr. Sanders, Mr. 
     Schiff, Ms. Smith, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Warren, Mr. Welch, Mr. 
  Whitehouse, and Mr. Wyden) introduced the following bill; which was 
       read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit firearms dealers from selling a firearm prior to the 
                   completion of a background check.

    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 ``Background Check Completion Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. COMPLETION OF BACKGROUND CHECKS.

    (a) In General.--Section 922(t)(1) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) by striking ``(i)'';
                    (B) by striking ``or'' and inserting ``and''; and
                    (C) by striking clause (ii);
            (2) by striking subparagraph (C); and
            (3) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (C).
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 12001(a)(3) of the Bipartisan Safer Communities 
        Act (Public Law 117-159; 136 Stat. 1324) is amended by striking 
        ``paragraphs (1)(B) and (2) are repealed, and the provisions of 
        law amended by those paragraphs are restored as if those 
        paragraphs had not been enacted'' and inserting ``paragraph (2) 
        is repealed, and the provision of law amendment by that 
        paragraph is restored as if that paragraph had not been 
        enacted''.
            (2) Section 103(l)(3) of the Brady Handgun Violence 
        Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901(l)(3)) is amended by striking 
        ``, but in no case more than 10 business days,''.
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