This bill, titled the "Responsible Retirement of Law Enforcement Firearms Act of 2025," aims to modify eligibility requirements for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program. It introduces a new certification requirement for grant applicants, stipulating that they, along with their grantees and subgrantees, must not transfer firearms to or purchase firearms from specific "covered licensed dealers." A covered licensed dealer is defined as one from whom the ATF's National Tracing Center has traced at least 25 firearms with a "short time-to-crime" in at least two of the three preceding calendar years. A short time-to-crime refers to a period of not more than three calendar years between the last retail sale of a firearm and its recovery by law enforcement in connection with a criminal offense. Furthermore, the bill mandates that the Attorney General, through the ATF Director, annually notify state or local law enforcement agencies if any firearms they transferred were used in a criminal offense. The ATF must also publicly disclose a list of all identified covered licensed dealers on its internet website. To enhance transparency, the legislation repeals several long-standing provisos from various appropriations acts, dating back to 2003. These repealed provisions had previously limited the public disclosure of certain database information held by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, thereby allowing for greater public access to firearm tracing data.