Details 

• Sponsor - Menendez
• Proposed - March 27, 2006
• Congressional Record Link - S.2460
• Amends - None.
• Amendments - None.

• Votes - None.

• Results - No change in law.
  

Status

March 27, 2006 - Read the second time. Referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Synopsis

This bill is short enough that we provide the entire text:

SECTION 1. FIREARMS TRACE SYSTEM.

(a) In General- The Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-108; 119 Stat. 2295) is amended in title I, under the heading `Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives', by striking `Provided further, That no funds appropriated under this or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year may be used to disclose part or all of the contents of the Firearms Trace System database' and all that follows through `section 921(a)(10) of such title):'.

(b) Access to Information- The Attorney General shall provide public access to the Crime Gun Trace Report (both nationally and for individual cities) from the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, which is generated using information in the Firearms Trace System database maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Analysis

This bill attempts to undo what Congress has passed each year for several years in appropriations bills. The goal is to make BATFE gun trace data available for use in lawsuits against gun manufacturers and dealers.

Despite the fact that not all traced guns have been used in crimes, this kind of statistical data was used in lawsuits against lawful businesses.

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