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This bill would require the Attorney General to send Congress a yearly report about people who were stopped from buying a firearm after a background check through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. The report would not name individuals, but would collect demographic information so Congress can better understand who is being denied and why. It would also include the same information for people who successfully appealed and had the denial overturned.
- The report must be sent to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees within 1 year after the law takes effect, and then every year after that.
- The information must be grouped by the reason the person was found ineligible to buy a firearm.
- The report should include, if available: race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, age, disability, average yearly income, and English language ability.
- The report must also include those same details for people whose denial was later reversed on appeal.
Official Summaries
NICS Data Reporting Act
This bill requires the Department of Justice to report annually on the demographic data of persons who are determined to be ineligible to purchase a firearm based on a background check performed by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2267 Referred in Senate (RFS)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 2267
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 13, 2026
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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AN ACT
To require the Attorney General to submit to the Congress a report that
includes the demographic data of persons determined to be ineligible to
purchase a firearm based on a background check performed by the
National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
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 ``NICS Data Reporting Act of 2026''.
SEC. 2. NICS REPORT.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and
annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee
on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of
the House of Representatives a report containing, with respect to the
preceding year, the demographic data of persons who were determined to
be ineligible to purchase a firearm based on a background check
performed by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System,
which shall include, disaggregated by the reason for the determination
of ineligibility, the following:
(1) The race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, age,
disability, average annual income, and English language
proficiency, if available.
(2) In the case of each person whose determination of
ineligibility was overturned on appeal, the race, ethnicity,
national origin, sex, gender, age, dis-
ability, average annual income, and English language
proficiency, if available.
Passed the House of Representatives May 12, 2026.
Attest:
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,
Clerk.