Summary

Makes federal law stricter for who can transfer ammunition and how transfers are completed and reported. Licensed importers, manufacturers, and dealers would have to verify a buyer’s identity in person with a photographic ID before handing over ammunition, and must file a same-day report to federal and state/local law enforcement when they sell or otherwise dispose of more than 1,000 rounds to an unlicensed person at once or within any five consecutive business days. The bill also makes several technical edits to existing criminal code language and includes some incomplete placeholder text that could create legal uncertainty.

• Requires licensed ammunition importers, manufacturers, and dealers to inspect a photographic ID in the buyer’s physical presence before transferring ammunition.
• Mandates same-day reporting to federal and state/local law enforcement of sales/dispositions of more than 1,000 rounds to an unlicensed person at once or within any five consecutive business days.
• Expands recordkeeping and reporting duties to include licensed dealers as well as importers and manufacturers.
• Alters wording in several sections of 18 U.S.C. regarding ammunition authorities and removes the phrase “or armor-piercing” from one statutory clause.
• Reports must use an Attorney General–specified form and be sent to the office listed on the form and to the relevant state/local law enforcement agency by close of business the same day.
• Text contains incomplete placeholders and fragmentary references to other laws, creating legal and implementation uncertainty.
• Likely to reduce anonymous or purely remote/ammunition-by-mail transfers because of the in-person ID requirement.
• Places new compliance and administrative burdens on dealers and may increase records-processing work for state and local law enforcement.
• Does not include explicit appropriations or funding to cover new compliance or enforcement costs in the supplied text.