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Federal · 119th Congress

S889 Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act of 2025

Direction

Firearms red flag erpoAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 95%

Creates a federal grant program to support state and tribal extreme risk protection order (red flag) laws meeting specified due-process standards, requires states to report such orders to NICS, makes individuals subject to qualifying ERPOs federally prohibited from possessing firearms, and requires,

The Attorney General shall establish a program under which, from amounts made available to carry out this section, the Attorney General may make grants to eligible entities to assist in carrying out the provisions of the legislation described in subsection (c).

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  1. Introduced (completed)
  2. Committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both
  5. President
  6. Law

Stage: Committee · step 2 of 6

Last action
2025-03-06: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Filed
2025-03-06
Committee
Judiciary Committee
Sponsor
Richard Blumenthal D + 17 cosponsors (17 D)

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill creates a DOJ grant program to incentivize and fund state/Tribal adoption and implementation of extreme risk protection order (red-flag) laws with specified due-process features (notice, hearing, preponderance standard, ex parte option), mandates reporting of qualifying orders to NICS, adds qualifying ERPO subjects to the federal 922(d)/(g) firearms prohibitions, requires federal collection of ERPO records, and gives full faith and credit to such orders across jurisdictions. All provisions expand the use and enforcement of red-flag ERPOs that remove firearm access from individuals a

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History (2 actions)
DateChamberAction
2025-03-06LibraIntroduced in Senate
2025-03-06SenatRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.