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Federal · 119th Congress
S4776Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act
Direction
FirearmsotherAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Repeals multiple Tiahrt Amendments and related limits that had required destruction of NICS background check records within 24 hours, barred centralized federal retention of dealer acquisition/disposition records, prohibited required physical inventory audits of gun dealers, and restricted use of FO
The Tiahrt Amendments impede enforcement of the gun laws by requiring most background check records to be destroyed within 24 hours, and by barring the Federal Government from requiring annual inventory audits by owners of gun shops.
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Introduced (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
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Law
Stage: Committee · step 2 of 6
Last action
2026-06-11: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill repeals longstanding appropriations riders (Tiahrt Amendments) that had restricted ATF and DOJ from retaining NICS background-check records beyond 24 hours, from centralizing dealer acquisition/disposition records, from mandating physical inventory checks by FFLs, and from using trace data for certain research or FOIA responses. Removing these limits allows greater federal collection, retention, and use of firearms-trace and background-check data to support enforcement and research, which restricts the overall axis of firearms access by facilitating identification of illegal transfers