Details

• Sponsor - Schumer
• Proposed - January 7, 1997
• Congressional Record Link - HR12
• Amends - Title 18, United States Code
• Amendments - None.
• Votes - None taken.
• Results - No change in law. Died before leaving the Judiciary Committee.

Synopsis

According to the Congressional Record:

Twelve is Enough Anti-Gunrunning Act - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit any licensed firearms dealer: (1) during any 30-day period, from selling two or more handguns to an unlicensed individual; or (2) from selling a handgun to an unlicensed individual who purchased a handgun during the 30-day period ending on the date of the sale. Provides that such prohibitions do not apply to an exchange of one handgun for another. Prohibits an unlicensed individual from purchasing two or more handguns during any 30-day period.

Provides for imprisonment for up to five years (currently, one year) for a licensed dealer, importer, manufacturer, or collector who knowingly makes any false statement in connection with required firearms records.

Extends the deadline for the destruction of records relating to handgun transfers subject to the waiting period from 20 business days to 35 calendar days after the date the transferee made the statement on the basis of which notice of the transaction was provided to the chief law enforcement officer of the place of residence of the transferee. Requires the national instant criminal background check system, if receipt of a firearm would not violate Federal or State law, to destroy records relating to the person or the transfer within 35 calendar days after the date the system provides the licensee with the unique identification number to the transfer.

Revises the definition of "engaged in the business" as applied to a dealer in firearms to include any person who transfers more than one handgun in any 30-day period to a person who is not a licensed dealer.

Analysis

By 'Twelve is Enough' they are referring to the number of handguns anyone would be able to buy in a year. The actual implementation of such a law would require the federal government to track all purchases by individual, for a time. So, once again, Rep. Schumer wanted to be able to tell us what we needed. These underlying concepts are against the very grain of the Constitution, much less the Second Amendment.

In addition to all this, the last section would have meant many firearms collection owners could unknowingly fall into a requirement to hold an FFL. This would be especially easy for widows divesting themselves of inherited collections. The criminalization of the innocent should not be a result of any federal law.

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