; and (B) a full-time employee of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State who in the course of his or her official duties is authorized to carry a firearm. . 13503. Operation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s public access line (a) Report Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (in this section referred to as the FBI ) shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report regarding operation of the FBI’s public access line. (b) Matters included The report required by subsection (a) shall, at a minimum, include the following: (1) A description of the protocols and procedures in effect with respect to information-sharing between the public access line and the field offices of the FBI. (2) Recommendations for improving the protocols and procedures to improve the information-sharing. JJ National Gun Violence Research 13601. Short title This subtitle may be cited as the National Gun Violence Research Act . 13602. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) In the last 50 years, more individuals in the United States have died from gunshots than in all wars in which the United States was a combatant, combined. (2) The rate of gun violence deaths in the United States is more than double that of other high-income nations. (3) Guns accounted for 74 percent of homicides and 51 percent of suicides in 2016, totaling over 37,000 deaths in the United States. (4) Gun violence disproportionately affects racial minorities, with African Americans comprising nearly 60 percent of homicide victims and 22 percent of unintentional injury deaths in 2016. (5) Provisions in appropriations Acts dating back to 1996 have had a chilling effect on Federal funding for research on gun violence across the Federal Government and, as a result, research on gun violence is significantly underfunded relative to other leading causes of death. (6)