1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated February 22, 2019Firearms Background Checks Under H.R. 8 and H.R. 1112On February 13, 2019, the House Committee on the Judiciary ordered reported two bills (H.R. 8 and H.R. 1112) that would amend the federal firearms background check provisions in the Gun Cont
2、rol Act of 1968 (GCA; 18 U.S.C. 922 et seq.). Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8) H.R. 8 would make intrastate, private firearms transactions subject to the GCA recordkeeping and background check requirements by prohibiting unlicensed persons from transferring a firearm to any other un
3、licensed person, unless a federally licensed firearms dealer takes possession of such firearm and facilitates such a transaction by running a background check on the unlicensed prospective transferee (buyer). Under current law, unlicensed persons are generally prohibited from making interstate firea
4、rms transfers between one another. H.R. 8 would essentially extend this interstate prohibition to intrastate (same state) firearms transactions. For a similar proposal, see the Background Check Expansion Act (S. 42). Enhanced Background Checks Act (H.R. 1112) H.R. 1112 would extend the delayed trans
