S.35
Latest Title: Gun Show Background Check Act of 2011
Sponsor: Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] (introduced 1/25/2011)      Cosponsors (12)
Related Bills: H.R.591
Latest Major Action: 1/25/2011 Referred to Senate committee. 
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

SUMMARY AS OF:
1/25/2011--Introduced.

Gun Show Background Check Act of 2011 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention
Act to require registration of gun show promoters and to set forth the
responsibilities of promoters, licensees, and other transferors.

Provides that if any part of a firearm transaction takes place at a gun show, each
licensed importer, manufacturer, and dealer who transfers one or more firearms to a
person who is not licensed shall, within 10 days after the transfer, submit a report
of the transfer to the Attorney General. Sets forth penalties for violations.

Grants the Attorney General authority to enter the place of business of any gun show
promoter and any place where a gun show is held, during business hours and without a
showing of reasonable cause or a warrant, for purposes of examining records and the
inventory of licensees conducting business to determine compliance with this Act.

Increases penalties for: (1) serious record-keeping violations by licensees; and (2)
violations of criminal background check requirements.

MAJOR ACTIONS:

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ALL ACTIONS:

1/25/2011:
    Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)

    * SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
      Gun Show Background Check Act of 2011

    * OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
      A bill to establish background check procedures for gun shows. 

COSPONSORS(12), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Sen Bennet, Michael F. [CO] - 2/8/2011
Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 1/25/2011
Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] - 1/25/2011
Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] - 1/25/2011
Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [NY] - 1/26/2011
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] - 1/25/2011
Sen Levin, Carl [MI] - 1/25/2011
Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] - 1/25/2011
Sen Reed, Jack [RI] - 1/25/2011
Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] - 1/25/2011
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] - 1/25/2011
Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] - 1/25/2011
COMMITTEE(S):

      Committee/Subcommittee: 	Activity:
      Senate Judiciary 	Referral, In Committee

RELATED BILL DETAILS:  (additional related bills may be indentified in Status)

      Bill:	Relationship:
      H.R.591	Related bill identified by CRS

AMENDMENT(S):

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