Virginia · 2025 Regular Session

SB886 Trigger activator; definition does not include semi-automatic replacement trigger, etc., penalty.

Direction

Firearms weapon accessory restrictionsAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 80%

The bill prohibits manufacture, importation, sale, possession, transfer, or transportation of auto sears and trigger activators (including bump stocks, binary triggers, etc.), so fewer such devices can be legally owned or used in the state.

It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, import, sell, offer for sale, possess, transfer, or transport an auto sear or a trigger activator in the Commonwealth.

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Status: Vetoed

Last action: 2025-04-02: Senate sustained Governor's veto
Filed: 2025-01-03
Sponsor: Russet Perry D

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Why the model tagged it this way: The bill addresses firearm accessories by maintaining and slightly refining a ban on devices that increase rate of fire (trigger activators and auto sears), with the deletion of prior language and addition of an exclusion for certain competitive triggers creating a mixed effect on the scope of the restriction.

Related bills

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SB173 Weapons; possession prohibited in hospital that provides mental health or developmental services.Restricts gun access Law

Hearings and calendar

2025-01-16 16:00 · Hearing · House Public Safety - Firearms Committee Hearing House South Subcommittee Room - 210 Update
2025-01-17 00:00 · Hearing · Senate Courts of Justice Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
2025-01-22 09:00 · Hearing · Senate Finance and Appropriations Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
2025-01-31 08:00 · Hearing · House Public Safety Committee Hearing House Committee Room A - 008
2025-02-06 16:00 · Hearing · House Public Safety - Firearms Committee Hearing House North Subcommittee Room - 200
2025-02-07 07:30 · Hearing · House Public Safety Committee Hearing House Committee Room A - 008
2025-02-17 07:00 · Hearing · House Rules Committee Hearing House Committee Room B - 205

Votes

Date	Chamber	Motion	Yea-Nay
2025-01-17	S	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)	9-6	Passed
2025-01-22	S	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)	10-5	Passed
2025-01-23	S	Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)	39-0	Passed
2025-01-28	S	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)	21-18	Passed
2025-02-06	H	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)	6-4	Passed
2025-02-07	H	Reported from Public Safety (11-Y 10-N)	11-10	Passed
2025-02-17	H	Reported from Rules (12-Y 6-N)	12-6	Passed
2025-02-20	H	Passed House (51-Y 47-N)	51-47	Passed

Text versions

Introduced 2025-01-03
Comm Sub 2025-01-20
Comm Sub 2025-01-20
Enrolled 2025-03-07

History (44 actions)

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-04-02	S	Senate sustained Governor's veto
2025-04-02	S	Passed by for the day
2025-03-24		Vetoed by Governor
2025-03-12	S	Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB886)
2025-03-11		Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
2025-03-11	S	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
2025-03-10	S	Signed by President
2025-03-07	H	Signed by Speaker
2025-03-07	S	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB886ER)
2025-03-07	S	Enrolled
2025-02-20	H	Passed House (51-Y 47-N)
2025-02-20	H	Read third time
2025-02-19	H	Read second time
2025-02-17	H	Reported from Rules (12-Y 6-N)
2025-02-11	H	Referred to Committee on Rules
2025-02-11	H	Motion to refer to Rules agreed to
2025-02-07	H	Reported from Public Safety (11-Y 10-N)
2025-02-06	H	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)
2025-02-04	H	Assigned PS sub: Firearms
2025-02-03	H	Referred to Committee on Public Safety
2025-02-03	H	Read first time
2025-02-03	H	Placed on Calendar
2025-01-28	S	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
2025-01-27	S	Impact statement from VCSC (SB886)
2025-01-27	S	Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute
2025-01-27	S	Senator Perry, Russet Substitute agreed to
2025-01-27	S	Reading of substitute waived
2025-01-27	S	Courts of Justice Substitute rejected
2025-01-27	S	Read second time
2025-01-27	S	Floor substitute printed 25105945D-S2 (Perry)
2025-01-26	S	Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB886)
2025-01-24	S	Passed by for the day
2025-01-24	S	Read second time
2025-01-23	S	Passed by for the day
2025-01-23	S	Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
2025-01-23	S	Rules suspended
2025-01-22	S	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
2025-01-21	S	Impact statement from VCSC (SB886)
2025-01-20	S	Committee substitute printed 25105307D-S1
2025-01-17	S	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
2025-01-14	S	Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB886)
2025-01-08	S	Impact statement from VCSC (SB886)
2025-01-03	S	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2025-01-03	S	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101931D