This legislation, known as the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2025, seeks to prevent individuals prohibited from possessing firearms from acquiring them by expanding the current background check system. It mandates that any firearm transfer between two unlicensed persons must first involve a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer . This licensed entity would then conduct a background check as if transferring the firearm from their own inventory to the unlicensed transferee. The bill outlines several exceptions to this requirement. These include transfers to law enforcement or military personnel acting within their official duties, and bona fide gifts or loans between close family members such as spouses, parents and children, or siblings, provided the transferor has no reason to believe the transferee is prohibited or intends to use the firearm in a crime. Other exceptions cover transfers to an estate's executor, temporary transfers necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm, and transfers approved by the Attorney General under specific tax code provisions. Further exceptions permit temporary transfers for specific activities like target shooting at a range, hunting, or pest control, or when the transferee is in the presence of the transferor, again with the condition that the transferor has no reason to believe the transferee is prohibited or intends criminal use. Licensed dealers are also required to provide notice of this new prohibition to unlicensed transferees, and the Attorney General must make background check forms available in both English and Spanish. The Act explicitly states that it should not be construed to authorize a national firearms registry or to interfere with a State's authority to enact its own laws on the same subject matter, with the amendments taking effect 180 days after enactment.