Note: Mayors Against Illegal Guns has not yet taken a position on these bills.

Anti-Gun Trafficking Penalties Enhancement Act, S.77 (Sen. Schumer)

• Overturns the Tiahrt Amendments and requires ATF to provide trace data to local governments.
• Removes the limit on how often ATF can inspect gun dealers.
• Increases federal penalties for gun trafficking.

Detectives Nemorin and Andrews Anti-Gun Trafficking Act (Rep. King) *

• Requires the Department of Justice to issue reports on the flow of crime guns, including the names of every dealer who has more than 50 crime gun traces a year.
• Increases federal penalties for certain crimes involving the trafficking or possession of illegal guns.
• Expands the scope and funding of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federally sponsored collaborative initiative against gun violence.

NICS Improvement Act, H.R. 297 (Rep. McCarthy)

• Improves the federal computer system used to run background checks on people who buy guns from licensed dealers.
• Seeks to make more of the background information that states maintain, such as state convictions and restraining orders, electronically accessible.

Gun Show Loophole Closing Act, H.R. 96 (Rep. Castle)

• Requires all gun dealers to conduct background checks for any firearm sold at a gun show.
• Increases criminal penalties for straw sales and recordkeeping violations by gun dealers.

* Expected to be introduced.