No Backdoor Gun Control Act of 2022
This bill removes the category of any other weapon from the definition of firearm under the National Firearms Act.
The bill treats persons who acquire or possess any other weapon as meeting registration or licensing requirements under the National Firearms Act.
The bill requires the Department of Justice to destroy any records relating to the registration of any other weapon not later than one year after the enactment of this bill.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove certain weapons 
   from the definition of firearms for the purposes of the National 
                 Firearms Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Backdoor Gun Control Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. REMOVING CERTAIN WEAPONS FROM THE DEFINITION OF FIREARMS.

    (a) In General.--Section 5845(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(5) any other weapon, as defined in 
        subsection (e);'', and
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through (8) as 
        paragraphs (5) through (7), respectively.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to calendar quarters beginning more than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. TREATMENT OF WEAPONS DETERMINED BY REFERENCE TO NATIONAL 
              FIREARMS ACT.

    Section 5841 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Any Other Weapon Requirements Determined by Reference.--In 
the case of registration or licensing requirement for any other weapon 
under State or local law which is determined by reference to the 
National Firearms Act, any person who acquires or possesses such a 
weapon in accordance with chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, 
shall be treated as meeting any such registration or licensing 
requirement with respect to such weapon.''.

SEC. 4. DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall destroy any 
registration of an applicable weapon maintained in the National 
Firearms Registration and Transfer Record pursuant to section 5841 of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, any application to transfer filed 
under section 5812 of such Code that identifies the transferee of an 
applicable weapon, and any application to make filed under section 5822 
of such Code that identifies the maker of an applicable weapon.
    (b) Applicable Weapon.--For purposes of this section, the term 
``applicable weapon'' has the meaning given the term ``any other 
weapon'' in section 5845 of such Code.
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No Backdoor Gun Control Act of 2022
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove certain weapons from the definition of firearms for the purposes of the National Firearms Act, and for other purposes.
No Backdoor Gun Control Act of 2022
Rep. Roy, Chip