Jaime’s Law
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill amends 18 U.S.C. section 922 so ammunition transfers between unlicensed people generally must go through a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer, which must take possession of the ammunition and comply with chapter 44 requirements as if transferring from its own inventory. If a transfer is not completed, return to the transferor is not treated as a transfer. Exceptions cover law enforcement agencies, law enforcement officers, armed private security professionals, Armed Forces members acting in official duties, bona fide loans or gifts among specified family members, estate or trust transfers by operation of law, temporary transfers needed to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm, Attorney General-approved transfers under section 5812, and temporary range, hunting, fishing, or in-person transfers when the transferor lacks reason to believe the recipient is prohibited or intends criminal use. Licensed dealers must give notice of the prohibition and obtain certification on an Attorney General form. The bill updates cross references and clarifies that it does not authorize a national firearms or ammunition registry or limit state authority.
Who Benefits and How
Communities affected by gun violence, licensed ammunition dealers, law enforcement agencies, and states preserving their own ammunition-transfer laws benefit from background-check routing, notice requirements, and state-law savings language.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Private ammunition sellers, ammunition buyers, licensed firearms dealers, Attorney General form administrators, range operators, hunters, and estate administrators must understand when a licensed transfer, notice certification, or exception applies.
Key Provisions
- Requires unlicensed ammunition transfers to go through a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer for background-check processing.
- Creates exceptions for official law-enforcement and military duties, family gifts, estate transfers, emergency temporary transfers, approved transfers, ranges, hunting, fishing, and in-person possession.
- Requires licensed dealers to provide notice of the ammunition-transfer prohibition and obtain certification on an Attorney General form.
- Protects against creating a national firearms or ammunition registry and preserves state authority over the same subject matter.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Extends federal firearm background-check transfer procedures to ammunition transfers between unlicensed people by requiring a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer to take possession and process the transfer, while preserving family, emergency, law-enforcement, hunting, range, and registry/state-law exceptions.
Key Policy Areas
Firearms, Public Safety, Criminal Law
Primary Purpose
Extends federal firearm background-check transfer procedures to ammunition transfers between unlicensed people by requiring a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer to take possession and process the transfer, while preserving family, emergency, law-enforcement, hunting, range, and registry/state-law exceptions.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Communities affected by gun violence
- Licensed ammunition dealers
- Law enforcement agencies
- States regulating ammunition transfers
Identified Costs
- Private ammunition sellers
- Ammunition buyers
- Licensed firearms dealers
- Attorney General form administrators
- Range operators
- Hunters
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Ms. Wasserman Schultz introduced the following bill; which was referred …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Ammunition buyers, Licensed firearms dealers, Private ammunition sellers
Ammunition buyers faces effects in multiple directions
Attorney General form administrators, Federal firearms regulators
States regulating ammunition transfers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "attorney_general"
- → Attorney General of the United States
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
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