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Senate committee wrestles with firearm-notice, background-check and storage rules for temporary seizures
Summary
Lawmakers and staff debated whether hearings on temporary firearm relinquishment and third-party custody can be combined, who supplies background checks to courts, and how notices should identify federal firearms licensees and remedies when notice is defective.
At an April 22 Senate Judiciary meeting, committee members pressed staff about several practical gaps in draft provisions governing temporary firearm orders and third-party custody: combining hearings, who provides background-check evidence to the court, how law enforcement must notify defendants about where firearms are stored, and what remedies exist if required notices are defective.
Committee counsel told members that the statutory language appears to allow a single hearing to address both the third-party custodian question and the temporary relinquishment, which would avoid forcing parties to return multiple times.…
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