YourVoice.Now Summary
Gun LawsCivil LibertiesTransparency & AccountabilityWould let you sue when the FBI stalls your gun background-check appeal past 60 days — with your court costs covered if you win.
Gun Laws
Federal law already gives the background check system 60 days to settle a request to fix your record. Today, a missed deadline by itself gives you no way into court.
Civil Liberties
Once you file, the court would have to hold a hearing within 30 days. Today no deadline applies, and the court sets its own schedule.
At the hearing, the side you sued must show by clear and convincing proof that you cannot legally have a gun. Today the person who brings the case carries that load.
Win in court and the government would have to pay your lawyer fees and court costs. A written settlement counts, and so does the government simply backing down. Today, a judge may award fees to either side, or to neither.
Transparency & Accountability
Each year the FBI would send both judiciary committees a count of record challenges. It would show how many it reversed, the reasons on each side, and the average time to finish. The report goes to Congress, not to the public.
More about this bill
If a background check blocks your gun purchase, you can ask the FBI to fix its records. The FBI already has 60 days to reach a final answer. You would gain the right to sue when it misses that deadline. A judge would then have to hold a hearing within 30 days. At that hearing, the government would have to prove you cannot legally own a gun. Today, the person who sues has to make that case. If you win, the government would pay your lawyer fees and court costs. Right now, a judge may award fees to either side, or to neither. The FBI would also send Congress a yearly report on these record challenges. It would show how many came in, how many were reversed, and how long they took on average.
Congressional Summary
This bill expands the grounds for pursuing judicial remedies related to the denial of certain firearm transfers. Additionally, the bill establishes procedural rules applicable to actions for judicial remedies.Current law authorizes judicial remedies for an individual who is erroneously denied a firearm (e.g., an individual is denied a firearm but the individual is eligible to receive or possess a firearm). This bill authorizes remedies for an individual who experiences an extended delay (i.e., a delay of more than 60 days) on a firearm transfer.Additionally, the bill requires an expedited hearing on an action for judicial remedies and places the burden of proof on the respondent (i.e., the government) to show that the individual was ineligible to receive or possess a firearm.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Action Date
- Date Added
- 2026-04-02
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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