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Senate Bill 1261
117th Congress(2021-2022)
Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act
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Introduced in Senate on Apr 21, 2021
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Introduced in Senate 
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S. 1261 (Introduced-in-Senate)


117th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1261


To require the national instant criminal background check system to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the relevant State and local law enforcement agencies whenever information contained in the system indicates that an alien who is illegally or unlawfully in the United States attempted to receive a firearm.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

April 21, 2021

Mr. Cotton (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Hawley, and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To require the national instant criminal background check system to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the relevant State and local law enforcement agencies whenever information contained in the system indicates that an alien who is illegally or unlawfully in the United States attempted to receive a firearm.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act”.

SEC. 2. Required notification by NICS to ICE and State and local law enforcement agencies of attempted receipt of firearm by alien who is illegally or unlawfully in the United States.

Section 103(e) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(3) NOTIFICATION TO ICE AND STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OF ATTEMPTED RECEIPT OF FIREARM BY PERSON ILLEGALLY OR UNLAWFULLY IN THE UNITED STATES.—Whenever information contained in the system established under this section indicates that a prospective firearm transferee is illegally or unlawfully in the United States, the system shall automatically notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and relevant State and local law enforcement agencies that an alien may have attempted to receive a firearm in violation of section 922(g)(5)(A) of title 18, United States Code, and include all relevant information contained in the system.”.