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HR 427 113th Congress House Crime and Law Enforcement Administrative law and regulatory procedures Business records Criminal justice information and records Department of Justice Firearms and explosives Freedom of information Retail and wholesale trades

Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act

Introduced: January 25, 2013 Introduced by: Quigley, Mike Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Feb 28, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
Jan 25, 2013
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 25, 2013
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Trafficking Reduction and Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act - Directs the Attorney General to promulgate regulations that require each firearm manufactured in the United States to be marked with a serial number that is located inside the firearm's receiver or that is visible only in infrared light, in addition to the serial number mark otherwise required.

Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) prohibit national instant criminal background check system records about a prospective firearm transferee from being destroyed until after 180 days after the system assigns and provides a firearms licensee with a unique identification number for the transfer, and (2) repeal provisions prohibiting appropriated funds from being used for any system that does not require the destruction of any identifying information submitted for a transferee within 24 hours after the system advises a licensee that the transferee's receipt of a firearm is not prohibited.

Requires each licensed firearms dealer to conduct a physical check of its firearms business inventory. Amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012, to repeal prohibitions against using appropriated funds to: (1) promulgate or implement any rule requiring a physical inventory of any firearms business; or (2) disclose contents of the Firearms Trace System database maintained by the National Trace Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) or any information required to be kept by firearms licensees except as specified in that Act.

What's happening now February 28, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 427: Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-427/
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"H.R. 427: Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-427/.
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H.R. 427, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-427/.
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