Pennsylvania State Police shall calculate the percentage of
crime guns recovered in the past two years sold by each firearm
seller and the ratio of crime guns to guns sold by each seller.
A firearm seller shall be determined to have sold a
disproportionate number of crime guns if that seller is in the
top 1% of sellers of crime guns recovered in the past two years.
A seller in the top 1% shall be subject to inspection.
(e) Exemption.--A firearm seller who is found to have sold a
disproportionate number of crime guns for two consecutive years,
but was also found not to be in violation of section 6130, shall
not be subject to an inspection required under subsection (d).
(f) Fees.--A licensing fee shall be assessed to retail
firearm dealers to be deposited into the Retail Licensee
Inspection Fund established under subsection (g). A 1% firearm
sales tax shall be paid by the firearm seller for each firearm
sold and a 1% ammunition tax shall be paid by the seller for
each unit of ammunition sold. The 1% tax under this subsection
shall also be applied to firearms that were purchased online but
were temporarily in the possession of a licensed firearm dealer
before transfer to the purchaser. Funds from the tax shall be
deposited into the Retail Licensee Inspection Fund.
(g) Fund.--The Retail Licensee Inspection Fund is
established as a separate fund in the State Treasury for the
purposes of administering this section, funding to support
conducting inspections, providing grants to firearm sellers to
improve information systems, providing grants to service
providers for victims of gun violence, funding for maintenance
of a database, developing an analytical and reporting mechanism
to leverage information in the database, funding to support
research on the impact of this section beginning in year five
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