Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act
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To President
Became law
Jun 11, 2026
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jun 11, 2026
Introduced in Senate
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Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4776: Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4776/
"S. 4776: Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4776/.
S. 4776, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4776/.
[S. 4776: Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4776/)