RRLEF Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 with respect to eligibility under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Responsible Retirement of Law Enforcement Firearms Act of 2025 or the RRLEF Act of 2025
This bill establishes a framework to limit the transfer of firearms to and purchase from federally licensed gun dealers whose firearms have a short time to crime. The term short time to crime means a period of three years or less between the date of the last known retail sale of a firearm and the date a firearm is recovered in an actual or suspected criminal offense.
Specifically, the bill directs the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to notify a state or local law enforcement agency if a firearm transferred by the agency is used, or suspected of being used, in the commission of a criminal offense, as traced by the National Tracing Center.
Additionally, the bill directs the ATF to publish annually a list of federally licensed gun dealers who have 25 or more traces of firearms with a short time to crime in at least two of the three previous years.
The bill prohibits a state (including the District of Columbia), territory, or local government that receives funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program from transferring a firearm to, or purchasing a firearm from, a dealer on the list.
The bill removes limits on the authority of the ATF to disclose firearms tracing data.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS
- BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS
- BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5453: RRLEF Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5453/
"H.R. 5453: RRLEF Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5453/.
H.R. 5453, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5453/.
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