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This bill, known as the "Prevent Illegal Gun Sales Act," aims to increase accountability and oversight of licensed firearms dealers through several key provisions. The bill increases the number of allowed compliance inspections of firearms dealers from once to three times, and significantly increases penalties for violations, raising potential imprisonment from one to five years for certain offenses. It also allows the Attorney General to suspend or revoke a firearms dealer's license and impose civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation, particularly for transferring armor-piercing ammunition or failing to have secure gun storage devices available. The bill expands the Attorney General's authority to deny firearms dealer licenses if issuing the license would pose a danger to public safety or if the applicant is unlikely to comply with the law. Additionally, the legislation requires the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to hire at least 80 additional employees to conduct more inspections and mandates that dealers conduct a physical inventory and provide detailed records if they have been convicted of unlawful firearm transfers or if 10 or more crime guns have been traced to their business. The bill also requires biennial reports to Congress on the implementation of these new regulations and includes a severability clause to ensure that if any part of the act is found invalid, the rest of the act remains in effect.

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