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Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act of 2025
To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to restrict the ability to transfer business inventory firearms, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill restricts firearms dealers' ability to transfer their business inventory when their federal firearms licenses are revoked, denied renewal, or expire. Once a dealer receives notice that their license will be revoked or not renewed, they cannot transfer business inventory firearms into their personal collection or to employees. After a license is revoked or expires, dealers cannot transfer those firearms to unlicensed individuals, though they have 30 days to transfer them to other licensed dealers. The bill also prohibits transferring firearms that were previously moved from business inventory to personal collection within one year of that transfer. Criminal penalties include up to one year imprisonment (or five years if willful) and fines for violations. The law requires the Attorney General to include these restrictions in license revocation notices so dealers are informed of their obligations.
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Sponsor (1)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Madeleine Dean’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- APOLLO GLOBAL $16,500
- KBRA $13,000
- LINDY COMMUNITIES $8,600
- DIVERSIFIED SEARCH $6,940
- LINDY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT $6,800
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Madeleine Dean → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Jun 27, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Jun 27, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 27, 2025
Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to restrict the ability to transfer business inventory firearms, and for other purposes.
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 “Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has the authority to regulate how Federal firearms licensees discontinue their firearms businesses, and to clarify statutory requirements regarding firearms that remain in the possession of a former licensee (or a responsible person of the former licensee) at the time the license is terminated.
SEC. 3. RESTRICTIONS ON THE ABILITY TO TRANSFER BUSINESS INVENTORY FIREARMS.
(a) Restrictions.—Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “(aa) Restrictions on Ability To Transfer Business Inventory Firearms.—
“(1) Transfer after notice of license revocation or denial of license renewal.—
“(A) Offense.—It shall be unlawful for a person who has been notified by the Attorney General that the Attorney General has made a determination to revoke a license issued to the person under this chapter to import, manufacture, or deal in firearms, or to deny an application of the person to renew such a license, to—
“(i) transfer a business inventory firearm of the person—
“(I) into a personal collection of the person; or
“(II) to an employee of the person, or to an individual described in section 923(d)(1)(B) with respect to the person; or
“(ii) receive a firearm that was a business inventory firearm of the person as of the date the person received the notice.
“(B) Rescinded determinations.—Subparagraph (A) shall not apply with respect to a license revocation or denial determination that is rescinded.
“(2) Transfer after revocation or expiration of license.—
“(A) Offense.—It shall be unlawful for a person—
“(i) on or after the effective date of the revocation of a license issued to the person under this chapter to import, manufacture, or deal in firearms, or (in the case that the application of the person to renew such a license is denied) on or after the date the license expires, to—
“(I) engage in conduct prohibited by paragraph (1); or
“(II) transfer to any other person (except a person licensed under this chapter or a Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency) a firearm that was a business inventory firearm of the person as of the effective date or expiration date, as the case may be; or
“(ii) after the 30-day period that begins with the applicable date referred to in clause
(i), transfer to a person licensed under this chapter a firearm that was a business inventory firearm of the person as of the applicable date.
“(B) Reversed determinations.—Subparagraph (A) shall not apply with respect to a license revocation or denial determination that is reversed.
“(3) Transfer of former business inventory firearm out of personal collection.—It shall be unlawful for any person who has transferred a business inventory firearm into a personal collection of the person, to transfer the firearm within 1 year after the transfer of the business inventory firearm.”.
(b) Business Inventory Firearm Defined.—Section 921(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(38) The term ‘business inventory firearm’ means, with respect to a person, a firearm required by law to be recorded in the acquisition and disposition logs of any firearms business of the person.”.
(c) Conforming Amendment.—Section 923(c) of such title is amended in the second sentence by inserting “section 922(aa) and to” after “subject only to”.
(d) Penalties.—Section 924(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(9) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(aa) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 1 year (or, if the violation was willful, 5 years), or both.”.
(e) Requirement That License Revocation or Application Denial Notice Include Text of Law Prohibiting Dealing in Firearms Without a Federal Firearms License and Restricting Transfer of Business Inventory Firearms.—Section 923(f)(1) of such title is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following: “A written notice described in the preceding sentence shall set forth the provisions of Federal statutes and regulations that prohibit a person not licensed under this chapter from engaging in the business of dealing in firearms or that are relevant in determining whether a person is doing so, and the provisions of section 922(aa).”. <all>
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