Bill > A3520

Introduced Session

This bill directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a criminal firearm recovery clearing house to be used as a central repository of information regarding all firearms seized, forfeited, found, or that otherwise come into the possession of any State or local law enforcement agency, which are believed to have been used in the commission of a crime. The bill directs the Attorney General to promulgate regulations prescribing mandatory reporting procedures for State and local law enforcement agencies to follow when recovering a firearm. The bill requires that the reporting procedures are to include the development of a form to facilitate the reporting process, and that the form provide for the submission of identifying information on the firearm and a description of the circumstances under which the firearm came into possession of law enforcement. In addition, the bill requires State and local law enforcement agencies investigating the commission of a crime in which a specific firearm is known to have been used to request the Division of State Police to document and trace the movement of that firearm, and provide the results of the trace to those law enforcement agencies. The bill requires the Attorney General to develop and implement, in cooperation with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, a strategy for the interdiction of firearms used in the commission of a crime. The strategy is to include identifying firearms traffickers and suppliers of firearms who may or may not be violating federal, State, or local laws, and cooperating with law enforcement agencies in other states in the investigation and enforcement of these laws. The bill takes effect on the first day of the sixth month after enactment, but permits the Superintendent of the State Police to take anticipatory administrative actions prior to the bill's effective date. The purpose of the clearing house is to determine the origins of firearms used in crimes committed in New Jersey, with particular focus on states from where substantial numbers of those firearms appear to originate.

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Raj Mukherji (D)*,  Gary Schaer (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee (on 03/05/2018)