1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2023 . 2. Electronic, searchable databases Section 923(g) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (8) (A) In this paragraph, the term foreign intelligence information has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1801 ). (B) Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shall establish and maintain electronic, searchable databases of all records within its possession of the importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposition of firearms required to be submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives by persons licensed under this chapter. (C) Each licensee under this chapter may provide the National Tracing Center with electronic access, consistent with the requirements of this paragraph, to all records within the licensee’s possession that are required to be kept under this chapter. (D) A licensee may voluntarily relinquish possession of any non-electronic record required to be kept under this chapter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives if— (i) 10 years have elapsed from the date of the firearm transaction; or (ii) in the case of paper acquisition and disposition books, 10 years have elapsed without any open disposition entries and with no dispositions recorded in the record. (E) The National Tracing Center— (i) shall have remote access to and may query, search, or otherwise access the electronic databases described in this paragraph