H.R. 7698

Tribal Firearm Access Act

Sponsor: Dusty Johnson

5 cosponsors
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Official summary

Written by the Congressional Research Service.

Tribal Firearm Access Act

This bill allows members of federally recognized Indian tribes to use their valid identification documents issued by tribal governments to obtain a firearm from a federally licensed dealer.

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Sec. 1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Tribal Firearm Access Act.

Sec. 2. Allowing members of federally recognized Tribes to use their Tribal government identification documents in obtaining a firearm from a federally licensed firearms dealer

(a) In general. Section 922(t)(1)(D) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting , or a valid identification document issued by a Tribal government before the period.

(b) Definition. Section 921(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following:

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(39) The term Tribal government means the recognized governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, community, component band, or component reservation, individually identified (including parenthetically) in the list published most recently as of the date of the enactment of this paragraph pursuant to section 104(a) of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131(a)).

(c) Effective date. The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act.