S. 4776 explained · 119th Congress · Pending in Congress
Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act
Cosponsors: 12 (12 D, 0 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-08
Introduced: 2026-06-11
Latest action (2026-06-11): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
What S. 4776 does, in plain terms
Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act This bill removes limitations on the authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to conduct activities related to the administration of federal firearms laws. Specifically, the bill removes provisions that limit the use of firearms tracing data, limit the disclosure of data under the Freedom of Information Act, prohibit imposing a requirement that gun dealers conduct a physical inventory, prohibit consolidating or centralizing records maintained by federal firearm licensees (e.g., gun dealers), and require background check records to be destroyed within 24 hours.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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