Bill > HR1817

This bill, the Firearm Due Process Protection Act, aims to enforce the requirement that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) make a final disposition of requests to correct its records within 60 days. It amends the existing law to provide for an expedited hearing process, where the burden of proof is on the respondent to show clear and convincing evidence that the individual is ineligible to receive or possess a firearm. The bill also requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to submit annual reports to Congress on the disposition of challenges to the accuracy of NICS records. Additionally, the bill expresses the sense of Congress that the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental component of self-government, self-defense, and the preservation of individual liberty, and that the deprivation of this right requires due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.