Firearms in Federal

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• USS5208 2025-2026By Tim Sheehy (R)
  Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act

  AI summary Extends federal concealed carry privileges under 18 USC 926C (LEOSA) to qualified former special operations personnel who meet training, eligibility, and identification requirements, so more people can legally carry concealed firearms in more places.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Aug 3: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR9548 2025-2026By Jonathan L. Jackson (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Blair Holt Firearm Owner Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2026

  AI summary Requires a nationwide criminal background check using fingerprints and other eligibility checks (including mental health history and disqualifying offenses) before the Attorney General can issue a firearm owner license needed to possess qualifying firearms, so more restrictions on who can buy or own

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other, storage minors, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee Jun 30: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS4926 2025-2026By Brian Schatz (D) · 10 cosponsors
  State Firearms Dealer Licensing Enhancement Act

  AI summary Creates a federal grant program to fund and incentivize states to enact and operate their own dealer licensing programs with requirements for licensing, inspections, and penalties, so more state-level restrictions on who can operate as a firearms dealer.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 24: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS4921 2025-2026By Tammy Duckworth (D)
  Blair Holt Firearm Owner Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2026

  AI summary Requires a nationwide criminal background check, fingerprints, mental health evaluation in some cases, and other eligibility checks for anyone to obtain a firearm owner license needed to possess qualifying firearms, so more restrictions on who can buy or possess them.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other, storage minors, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee Jun 24: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR9440 2025-2026By Joseph D. Morelle (D) · 17 cosponsors
  State Firearms Dealer Licensing Enhancement Act

  AI summary Creates a federal grant program to support and incentivize states to enact and operate their own firearms dealer licensing programs with requirements for applications, time-limited licenses, inspections, and penalties for noncompliance, so more state-level dealer regulation.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 24: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR9399 2025-2026By Sean Casten (D) · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  Juvenile Firearms Safety Act of 2026

  AI summary Creates criminal penalties for adults who store firearms where a juvenile is likely to gain unauthorized access and the juvenile then uses it in a crime or causes injury or death, so more restrictions on unsecured firearm storage around minors.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 23: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR9204 2025-2026By Suhas Subramanyam (D) · 9 cosponsors
  Gun Safety Innovation Opportunity Act of 2026

  AI summary Authorizes federal grants to develop and research biometric and other safe firearm storage devices that prevent unauthorized access, and requires grant applications to describe how funding will lead to greater consumer access including by lowering costs, so more households have and use storage that,

  ↑Expands gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jun 23: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4134)
• USS4776 2025-2026By Andy Kim (D) · 12 cosponsors
  Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act

  AI summary Repeals multiple Tiahrt Amendments and related limits that had required destruction of NICS background check records within 24 hours, barred centralized federal retention of dealer acquisition/disposition records, prohibited required physical inventory audits of gun dealers, and restricted use of FO

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jun 11: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS4671 2025-2026By Lindsey Graham (R) · 28 cosponsors
  Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2026

  AI summary Enhances criminal penalties specifically for thefts from FFL business premises (including mandatory minimum sentences when burglary or robbery is involved), so greater deterrence against stealing guns from licensed dealers.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 3: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR9122 2025-2026By Debbie Dingell (D)
  Defective Firearms Protection Act

  AI summary Repeals the statutory exclusion of firearms from the definition of 'consumer product' under the Consumer Product Safety Act, allowing the CPSC to regulate defective firearms and thereby exposing manufacturers and dealers to more regulatory enforcement and potential liability for defects.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Jun 3: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• USHR9009 2025-2026By Jimmy Patronis (R) · 10 cosponsors
  Firearm Freedom Act of 2026

  AI summary Repeals the federal ban on new machinegun possession and transfer, so more ability to own and transfer machineguns.

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee May 22: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR9003 2025-2026By Haley M. Stevens (D) · 13 cosponsors
  Keep Illegal Handguns Out of the Mail Act of 2026

  AI summary Prohibits USPS from implementing a rule that would tighten mailing standards for concealable firearms like handguns, so more ability to mail such firearms through the postal service.

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee May 21: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
• USHR8863 2025-2026By Austin Scott (R) · 3 cosponsors
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to add certain employees of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to the definition of employees in fire protection activities for the purpose of compensation for certain illnesses and diseases deemed to be proximately caused by employment in f

  AI summary This is a technical amendment to workers' compensation rules that does not change any restrictions on buying, owning, carrying or making firearms.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee May 15: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
• USHR8855 2025-2026By Cory Mills (R) · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish nationwide concealed carry reciprocity for certain members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

  AI summary Extends LEOSA concealed-carry reciprocity to active-duty service members with recent military firearms qualification, allowing them to carry concealed nationwide without complying with varying state restrictions.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Committee May 15: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR8619 2025-2026By Christian D. Menefee (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act

  AI summary Requires gun dealers to provide a safe storage device with every rifle, shotgun, and handgun sale, and creates grants and tax credits to promote and distribute safe storage devices, so more firearms will be stored with devices that deny unauthorized access (including by minors).

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: Committee May 15: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3541)
• USHR8758 2025-2026By Scott Perry (R)
  Protecting Our Second Amendment Data Act

  AI summary Prohibits state and local governments from disclosing personally identifiable information from firearm registration, carry permit, or background check transactions as a condition of receiving federal grants, so less sharing of gun owner data with third parties or federal agencies.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: Committee May 12: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR8694 2025-2026By John B. Larson (D) · 22 cosponsors
  Assault Weapon Financing Accountability Act

  AI summary Prohibits short-term Buy Now Pay Later loans for purchasing semiautomatic assault weapons (broadly defined to include many rifles, pistols, shotguns and accessories meeting listed criteria), so fewer people can easily finance and acquire them.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee May 7: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR8332 2025-2026By Pat Harrigan (R) · 6 cosponsors
  Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act

  AI summary Extends federal concealed carry authority under 18 USC 926C (LEOSA) to qualified current and former special operations personnel without requiring annual firearms qualification or separate certification, so more people can legally carry concealed firearms nationwide.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry
  Stage: Committee May 7: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
• USS4454 2025-2026By Cory A. Booker (D) · 8 cosponsors
  Firearm Safety Act of 2026

  AI summary Removes the statutory exclusion of firearms from the definition of 'consumer product,' allowing the CPSC to issue safety standards that could impose new regulatory requirements on firearm manufacturers and dealers.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Apr 30: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
• USS4339 2025-2026By Tim Kaine (D) · 1 cosponsor⚠ check quote
  Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2026

  AI summary Requires background checks through a licensed dealer for all private firearm transfers between unlicensed persons, so more background checks before gun transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, carry, weapon accessory restrictions, red flag erpo, storage minors, other
  Stage: Committee Apr 16: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR8297 2025-2026By Dan Crenshaw (R)
  District of Columbia Firearm Freedom Act

  AI summary Eliminates D.C.'s registration requirement, prior approval for acquisition/possession, feature-based bans on semiautomatic firearms and magazines, and related restrictions, while establishing permitless concealed carry for those 21+ who are not prohibited persons, so greater ability to buy, own and,

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, carry, weapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accesspurchase background checks
  Stage: Committee Apr 15: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR8059 2025-2026By Dave Min (D) · 8 cosponsors
  Unserialized Firearm Harm Oversight and Serialization Act of 2026

  AI summary Requires serialization of 3D-printed firearms, frames, receivers, and certain assembly kits produced by licensed manufacturers, and requires licensed dealers to serialize any unserialized firearms they take into inventory, so more restrictions on unserialized firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, purchase background checks
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Mar 24: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USS4117 2025-2026By John Cornyn (R) · 12 cosponsors
  Federal Law Enforcement Officer Service Weapon Purchase Act of 2026

  AI summary Allows active and retired federal law enforcement officers to buy their retired service firearms from their agency at salvage value within six months of retirement if in good standing, so more ability for these officers to own those specific firearms.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Mar 17: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS3946 2025-2026By Markwayne Mullin (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Tribal Firearm Access Act

  AI summary Allows tribal government IDs to be used for firearm purchases from licensed dealers, expanding the acceptable forms of identification for background checks.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 26: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS3916 2025-2026By Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) · 17 cosponsors
  Gun Owner Registration Information Protection Act

  AI summary Prohibits federal agencies from funding or supporting state or local firearm ownership databases (except for lost/stolen reports), so states face less ability to create or maintain registries that restrict gun owners' privacy.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 25: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
• USS3909 2025-2026By Ted Budd (R) · 6 cosponsors
  Stop Illegal Alien Cops Act

  AI summary Extends the existing federal prohibition on possession of firearms and ammunition by certain aliens (including undocumented immigrants) to also bar government entities from providing or allowing them to use firearms and ammunition in official duties.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Feb 25: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR7703 2025-2026By Mary E. Miller (R) · 23 cosponsors
  Stop Illegal Alien Cops Act

  AI summary Extends the existing federal prohibition on possession of firearms and ammunition by certain aliens (including undocumented immigrants) to also bar government entities from using or providing such firearms and ammunition to them, so less firearm access for those aliens even in official government or

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Feb 25: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR7698 2025-2026By Dusty Johnson (R) · 5 cosponsors
  Tribal Firearm Access Act

  AI summary Allows tribal ID as valid identification for NICS background checks when buying firearms from FFL dealers, so more people can complete purchases without needing other forms of ID.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 25: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR7678 2025-2026By Paul A. Gosar (R) · 99 cosponsors
  Gun Owner Registration Information Protection Act

  AI summary Prohibits federal agencies from funding or supporting state or local firearm ownership databases (except for lost/stolen reports), so states face fewer resources to maintain registries that restrict gun owners' privacy and ability to own firearms without tracking.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 25: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR2189 2025-2026By Scott Fitzgerald (R) · 95 cosponsors
  To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.

  AI summary Exempts less-than-lethal projectile devices meeting specific design criteria from the definition of 'firearm' under 18 USC 921(a)(3), from the NFA, and from the firearms/ammunition excise tax, so fewer restrictions on these devices.

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: Passed one chamber Feb 24: Received in the Senate.
• USHR7599 2025-2026By Lucy McBath (D) · 115 cosponsors
  Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2026

  AI summary Authorizes federal courts to issue ex parte and long-term extreme risk protection orders that prohibit named individuals from purchasing, possessing, or receiving firearms or ammunition based on a showing of risk of personal injury, with mandatory surrender of firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: Committee Feb 17: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR7591 2025-2026By Daniel S. Goldman (D) · 20 cosponsors
  Secure Firearm Storage and Suicide Prevention Act of 2026

  AI summary Requires schools to distribute educational materials on secure firearm storage and suicide prevention to students, parents, and communities, promoting practices that reduce youth access to unsecured guns.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Feb 17: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
• USS3883 2025-2026By Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D)
  Language Access to Gun Violence Prevention Strategies Act of 2026

  AI summary Mandates translation and culturally competent outreach for gun violence prevention strategies and firearm safety materials, plus priority for grants that engage limited English proficient populations, increasing participation in and effectiveness of such programs.

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, storage minors, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 12: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS3875 2025-2026By Richard Blumenthal (D) · 12 cosponsors
  Responsible Firearms Marketing Act

  AI summary Directs the FTC to study and then issue regulations prohibiting unfair or deceptive advertising or marketing practices by firearm manufacturers, dealers, or importers (including those appealing to those under 18, implying illegal use, or related to semiautomatic assault weapons), which imposes new,,

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 12: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
• USHR7500 2025-2026By Robin L. Kelly (D) · 17 cosponsors
  Responsible Firearms Marketing Act

  AI summary Directs the FTC to study and then issue regulations prohibiting unfair or deceptive advertising and marketing practices by firearm manufacturers, dealers, and importers, including those appealing to those under 18, implying illegal use, or related to semiautomatic assault weapons.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Feb 11: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• USHR7499 2025-2026By Robin L. Kelly (D) · 33 cosponsors
  Firearm Safety Act of 2025

  AI summary Removes the statutory exclusion of firearms from the definition of 'consumer product' under the Consumer Product Safety Act, allowing the CPSC to issue safety standards that could impose new regulatory requirements on firearm manufacturers and dealers.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Feb 11: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• USHR7446 2025-2026By Brittany Pettersen (D)
  Community Firearm Safety Act of 2026

  AI summary Authorizes Byrne JAG grants to be used for giveaway programs providing gun safes or other locking storage devices to individuals at no cost, which promotes secure firearm storage.

  ↑Expands gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Feb 9: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR7170 2025-2026By Judy Chu (D) · 13 cosponsors
  Language Access to Gun Violence Prevention Strategies Act of 2026

  AI summary Requires translation of materials on extreme risk protection orders and prioritizes grants for their creation and implementation with outreach to limited English proficient populations, so more people can learn about and use them to restrict firearm access.

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo, storage minors, other
  Stage: Committee Jan 21: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR7166 2025-2026By Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) · 24 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2026

  AI summary Requires licensed dealers to verify buyer identity in person with photo ID before transferring ammunition and mandates reporting of bulk ammunition sales over 1,000 rounds to law enforcement, so more restrictions on ammunition access.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee Jan 20: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR7135 2025-2026By Maxwell Frost (D)
  Prevent Illegal Gun Resales Act

  AI summary Increases licensing fees for dealers, requires submission and implementation of business practices to prevent diversion and straw purchases, mandates responses to crime gun trace requests, requires reporting of sales to traced individuals, imposes civil penalties and license actions for noncompliant

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jan 16: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR7134 2025-2026By Maxwell Frost (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Destroy Zombie Guns Act

  AI summary Requires that persons in the business of destroying firearms must destroy every component of the firearm (to prevent 'zombie guns' from being reassembled), with penalties including fines, imprisonment, and license suspension or revocation for violations.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jan 16: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS3544 2025-2026By Cory A. Booker (D) · 7 cosponsors
  Federal Firearm Licensing Act

  AI summary Requires a federal license with background investigation, fingerprints, and other checks for anyone to purchase, receive or possess a firearm, and mandates point-of-sale background checks through a licensed dealer for all private transfers.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, red flag erpo, other
  Stage: Committee Dec 17, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS3512 2025-2026By Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Medicare Investment and Gun Violence Prevention Act

  AI summary Reinstates $200 transfer and manufacturing taxes on certain firearms (including most NFA items) that had been eliminated, increasing the tax burden and cost of acquiring or making those firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Dec 16, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• USHR6743 2025-2026By Maxwell Frost (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Medicare Investment and Gun Violence Prevention Act

  AI summary Reinstates $200 transfer and manufacturing taxes on most NFA firearms (reversing their recent elimination), which increases the cost of acquiring and making those firearms and thus restricts access.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Dec 16, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
• USS3289 2025-2026By Sheldon Whitehouse (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires the ATF's National Tracing Center to create and maintain electronic, searchable databases of all firearm importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, and disposition records submitted by licensed dealers, with remote query access for law enforcement and intelligence purposes.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Dec 1, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR6223 2025-2026By Nellie Pou (D)
  Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires the ATF National Tracing Center to create and maintain electronic, searchable databases of all records of firearm importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or disposition submitted by licensed dealers, with remote query access for law enforcement and compliance purposes.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Nov 20, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR6035 2025-2026By Wesley Hunt (R) · 15 cosponsors
  Second Amendment Restoration Act of 2025

  AI summary Repeals enhanced NICS background check requirements for under-21 buyers and eliminates funding/grants for states to report juvenile records to NICS, so fewer disqualifying records are checked before firearm purchases.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Committee Nov 12, 2025: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR5874 2025-2026By Ben Cline (R) · 112 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Firearm Access During Shutdowns Act

  AI summary Requires NICS background checks to continue operating as an excepted function during government shutdowns, so background checks for firearm purchases remain available without interruption.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Oct 31, 2025: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USS3085 2025-2026By James E. Risch (R) · 17 cosponsors
  Firearm Access During Shutdowns Act of 2025

  AI summary Deems NICS background check operations and related ATF enforcement to be excepted during government shutdowns, so background checks and firearm purchases can continue without interruption.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Oct 30, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR38 2025-2026By Richard Hudson (R) · 189 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires states to recognize out-of-state concealed carry licenses or permitless carry for nonresidents (if the home state allows it), so more ability to carry concealed firearms across state lines.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: Committee Oct 3, 2025: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 289.
• USHR2184 2025-2026By Tom Emmer (R) · 24 cosponsors
  Firearm Due Process Protection Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires NICS to process correction requests within 60 days, mandates expedited court hearings on denials, and shifts the burden of proof to the government to show ineligibility by clear and convincing evidence, so erroneous denials are more likely to be overturned and more people can buy firearms.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Committee Oct 3, 2025: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 290.
• USHR5622 2025-2026By Valerie P. Foushee (D) · 13 cosponsors
  National Gun Violence Research Act of 2025

  AI summary Establishes a coordinated national research program, awards grants, creates research centers, and funds studies on the nature, causes, consequences, and prevention of gun violence without changing any laws on buying, owning, carrying or making firearms.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Sep 30, 2025: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR5306 2025-2026By Julia Brownley (D) · 7 cosponsors
  Gun Suicide Prevention Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires all firearms sold to carry a suicide prevention hotline label on the gun, packaging or materials, so adds a new mandated warning on firearm sales.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Sep 11, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• USHR3770 2025-2026By Darrell Issa (R) · 41 cosponsors
  FIREARM Act

  AI summary Limits ATF enforcement actions against federal firearms licensees by requiring notice and opportunity to correct violations before license revocation or denial, narrowing the definition of 'willfully' to require deliberate intent, and providing stays and de novo judicial review, resulting in fewer F

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Sep 10, 2025: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 15 - 8.
• USHR4918 2025-2026By Mark DeSaulnier (D) · 4 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act

  AI summary Authorizes federal grants to develop and commercialize smart guns, personalized guns, and other technologies that prevent accidental or unauthorized firearm use, so more such safety features become available.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  =No change to gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Aug 8, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4883 2025-2026By Mark DeSaulnier (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Local Gun Violence Reduction Act

  AI summary Creates a voluntary federal database for state and local governments to submit and share information on their enacted gun violence prevention laws and their measured effects on gun violence rates, enabling easier access to and analysis of such policies.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Aug 5, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• USHR4882 2025-2026By Mark DeSaulnier (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Gun Safety Board and Research Act

  AI summary Establishes a federal Gun Safety Board to conduct and fund research on firearm violence reduction, evaluate efficacy of gun laws, and make policy recommendations, which is expected to lead to more evidence-based restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Aug 5, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• USS2514 2025-2026By Edward J. Markey (D) · 32 cosponsors
  Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2025

  AI summary Authorizes $50M/year in dedicated CDC funding for research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention, enabling more such studies than without the bill.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 29, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
• USHR4821 2025-2026By Marilyn Strickland (D) · 54 cosponsors
  Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2025

  AI summary Authorizes $50 million per year in dedicated CDC funding for research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention, increasing the volume of such research.

  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 29, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• USHR4788 2025-2026By Andrew S. Clyde (R) · 45 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  To require the District of Columbia to permit Members of Congress who have a valid license or permit which is issued pursuant to the law of a State which permits the Member to carry a concealed firearm, or who is otherwise entitled to carry a concealed firearm in the State in which the Member reside

  AI summary Requires DC to exempt Members of Congress with valid out-of-state concealed-carry licenses (or who are otherwise entitled to carry in their home state) from DC's pistol carry prohibition, so more ability to carry concealed firearms in DC.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: Committee Jul 29, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
• USHR4676 2025-2026By Darrell Issa (R) · 15 cosponsors
  Modern Firearm Safety Act

  AI summary Prohibits state and local governments from enforcing or imposing handgun design requirements (such as loaded indicators, magazine-disconnect safeties, microstamping, or related capabilities) beyond federal statutes, so more ability to buy and own standard handguns without added restrictions.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee Jul 23, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4487 2025-2026By André Carson (D) · 37 cosponsors
  Gun Safety Incentive Act

  AI summary Requires gun dealers to provide a safe storage device with every handgun, rifle, or shotgun sale and creates grants plus a tax credit to promote and distribute safe storage devices, so more households will use locked storage and fewer unauthorized (including by minors) will access guns.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jul 17, 2025: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR4270 2025-2026By Norma J. Torres (D) · 27 cosponsors
  Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act of 2025

  AI summary Expands the multiple-sales reporting requirement from handguns only to all firearms, so dealers must report more sales to ATF and more potential straw purchases can be investigated.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  Stage: Committee Jun 30, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4261 2025-2026By Mary Gay Scanlon (D) · 6 cosponsors
  Stopping the Fraudulent Sales of Firearms Act

  AI summary Creates new federal criminal penalties for importing, manufacturing or selling firearms or ammunition by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, and for related interstate communications, so more restrictions on such fraudulent activity by firearm industry participants.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Jun 30, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4252 2025-2026By Salud O. Carbajal (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act of 2025

  AI summary 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

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: Committee Jun 30, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4251 2025-2026By Julia Brownley (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Protecting Americans from Reckless Gun Dealers Act of 2025

  AI summary Mandates annual public reports on ATF actions regarding FFL inspections, revocations for serious violations (such as straw purchases, falsifying records, and failing to report thefts), and a GAO study on enforcement effectiveness, leading to greater scrutiny of firearm dealers.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 30, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4225 2025-2026By Madeleine Dean (D)
  Protect Children Through Safe Gun Ownership Act

  AI summary Requires active adult supervision for juveniles possessing handguns with parental consent and mandates secure storage of firearms (with penalties and a private right of action for injuries), so more restrictions on unsecured access to guns by children.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other, purchase background checks
  Stage: Committee Jun 27, 2025: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR4223 2025-2026By Madeleine Dean (D)
  Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act

  AI summary Repeals Tiahrt Amendments and related limits that required destruction of most NICS background check records within 24 hours, barred annual dealer inventory audits, prohibited centralization of dealer records, and blocked FOIA requests on traces, so more data is retained and available for gun law-en

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jun 27, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4221 2025-2026By Madeleine Dean (D)
  Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act

  AI summary Updates the definition of undetectable firearms and detectable material, and expands the prohibition to include prototypes and changes the detection standard, so more restrictions on making or possessing undetectable firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jun 27, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4220 2025-2026By Madeleine Dean (D)
  Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act

  AI summary Requires FinCEN to gather data from financial institutions and issue an advisory on patterns of suspicious financial activity used to buy firearms and accessories for domestic terrorism or gun violence, increasing regulatory scrutiny of such purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jun 27, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
• USS2192 2025-2026By Alex Padilla (D) · 8 cosponsors
  Clean Hands Firearm Procurement Act

  AI summary Requires public listing of dealers with high rates of short time-to-crime traces and bars most federal agencies from contracting with them, increasing pressure on those dealers to avoid sales that lead to quick crime use.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 26, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3564)
• USS2186 2025-2026By Cory A. Booker (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Preventing Pretrial Gun Purchases Act

  AI summary Adds people subject to pretrial release orders prohibiting firearm purchase/possession to the list of those for whom background checks must deny a firearm sale, so more firearm purchases are blocked.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 26, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4198 2025-2026By Jamie Raskin (D)
  Clean Hands Firearm Procurement Act

  AI summary Requires public listing of dealers with high rates of short time-to-crime firearm traces and bars most federal agencies from contracting with them, increasing pressure on such dealers and potentially limiting their business operations.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 26, 2025: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR4173 2025-2026By Daniel S. Goldman (D) · 12 cosponsors
  Preventing Pretrial Gun Purchases Act

  AI summary Adds people subject to pretrial release orders prohibiting firearm possession to the list of prohibited persons under 18 USC 922(d), and updates the NICS background check system to deny firearm sales to them, so more background checks will block purchases.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 26, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS2165 2025-2026By Edward J. Markey (D) · 23 cosponsors
  3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2025

  AI summary Prohibits distributing 3D printer files that can automatically produce firearms or complete them from unfinished frames/receivers, so fewer untraceable or undetectable guns can be made and distributed.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other, purchase background checks
  Stage: Committee Jun 25, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4143 2025-2026By Jared Moskowitz (D) · 4 cosponsors
  3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2025

  AI summary Prohibits distributing CAD files or code over the internet that can automatically program a 3D printer to produce a firearm or complete one from an unfinished frame or receiver, so fewer untraceable or undetectable firearms can be made.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 25, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS2158 2025-2026By Alex Padilla (D) · 5 cosponsors
  Stopping the Fraudulent Sale of Firearms Act

  AI summary Makes it a federal crime for any person to import, manufacture, or sell firearms or ammunition using false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, and adds penalties, so increases legal consequences for dealers and manufacturers engaging in fraud.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Jun 24, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3517-3518)
• USS2157 2025-2026By Edward J. Markey (D) · 4 cosponsors
  Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act

  AI summary Requires FinCEN to gather data from financial institutions and issue an advisory on patterns of suspicious financial activity used to buy firearms and accessories for domestic terrorism or gun violence, increasing regulatory scrutiny of such transactions.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jun 24, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
• USS2155 2025-2026By Edward J. Markey (D) · 13 cosponsors
  Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act of 2025

  AI summary Expands ATF authority to deny, suspend, or revoke dealer licenses and impose civil penalties based on broader standards (removing 'willfully' requirement and adding 'danger to public safety' or 'not suitable' criteria), so more restrictions and liability on firearms dealers.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other, storage minors, weapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee Jun 24, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS2154 2025-2026By Edward J. Markey (D) · 15 cosponsors
  Protecting Kids from Gun Marketing Act

  AI summary Prohibits manufacturers, dealers, and importers from marketing or advertising firearms and firearm-related products to minors in ways that appeal to them, imposing new regulatory restrictions enforced by the FTC with civil penalties.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Jun 24, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
• USHR4106 2025-2026By Seth Magaziner (D) · 9 cosponsors
  Prevent Illegal Gun Sales Act

  AI summary Increases the number of compliance inspections of firearms dealers from once to 3 times per year, raises penalties for recordkeeping violations (including up to 10 years if tied to gun trafficking), allows suspension/revocation of licenses and civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation (including a

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 24, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR4064 2025-2026By Claudia Tenney (R) · 4 cosponsors
  Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act

  AI summary Adds a $3,000 bankruptcy exemption for a debtor's interest in firearms, shielding that value of gun ownership from creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 20, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS2088 2025-2026By Adam B. Schiff (D)
  Firearm Destruction Licensure Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires a license to engage in the business of destroying firearms, mandates specific destruction methods for government-sourced firearms, requires annual reporting on destructions, and authorizes grants to pay licensed dealers for destroying firearms using covered methods.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jun 17, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR3998 2025-2026By Keith Self (R) · 2 cosponsors
  Firearms Congressional Notification Modernization Act

  AI summary Raises the dollar threshold for congressional notification of firearm export licenses from $1M to $4M, so fewer such exports will trigger notification requirements.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jun 12, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
• USHR3945 2025-2026By Gabe Amo (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Firearm Destruction Licensure Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires a license from the Attorney General to engage in the business of destroying firearms, adds reporting requirements on destroyed firearms, and mandates use of a 'covered method of firearm destruction' for government-submitted firearms (with public disclosure of charges), imposing new federal,

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 12, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS1955 2025-2026By Richard Blumenthal (D) · 26 cosponsors
  Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act

  AI summary Repeals the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which had shielded firearms manufacturers and sellers from certain civil lawsuits, so more civil liability for the firearms industry.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 4, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR3740 2025-2026By Eric Swalwell (D) · 114 cosponsors
  Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act of 2025

  AI summary Repeals the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which had shielded firearms manufacturers and sellers from certain civil lawsuits, so more civil liability for the firearms industry.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 4, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS1922 2025-2026By Joni Ernst (R)
  FIREARM Act

  AI summary Makes it harder for ATF to revoke or deny FFL licenses for non-willful, correctable, or self-reported violations by adding notice, correction periods, assistance, stricter willfulness definition, de novo judicial review, and retroactive relief from prior revocations, so more licensed dealers can buy

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jun 2, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR2255 2025-2026By Russell Fry (R)
  Federal Law Enforcement Officer Service Weapon Purchase Act of 2025

  AI summary Allows active and retired federal law enforcement officers to buy their retired service firearms from their agency at salvage value within six months of retirement if in good standing, so greater ability for them to own those specific firearms.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Passed one chamber May 19, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS1652 2025-2026By Chuck Grassley (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2025

  AI summary Improves availability and reporting of records to NICS for background checks, withholds federal funds from states that fail to provide mental health records, and increases federal prosecution of prohibited persons who attempt illegal purchases, so more effective enforcement of background-check deni

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  ↔Mixed gun accessother
  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee May 7, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS1531 2025-2026By Adam B. Schiff (D) · 42 cosponsors
  Assault Weapons Ban of 2025

  AI summary Bans the import, sale, manufacture, transfer and possession of semiautomatic assault weapons (broadly defined to include many rifles, pistols and shotguns with listed features or specific models) and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices over 10 rounds, so fewer such items can be legally bought,

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: Committee Apr 30, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR3115 2025-2026By Lucy McBath (D) · 195 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Assault Weapons Ban of 2025

  AI summary Bans the import, sale, manufacture, transfer and possession of semiautomatic assault weapons (defined to include many rifles, pistols and shotguns with listed features such as pistol grips, threaded barrels, or capacity over 15 rounds) and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices over 15 rounds, so

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, storage minors, other
  Stage: Committee Apr 30, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR3033 2025-2026By Sheri Biggs (R) · 33 cosponsors
  Protecting the Mailing of Firearms Act

  AI summary Repeals the federal ban on mailing concealable firearms and bars the Postal Service from prohibiting or impeding mailing of firearms/ammunition/components or requiring disclosure of sales records or serial numbers, so greater ability to ship firearms by mail.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Apr 28, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR2948 2025-2026By LaMonica McIver (D) · 31 cosponsors
  Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act of 2025

  AI summary Authorizes federal grants to states, localities, tribes, and licensed gun dealers to run voluntary gun buyback programs that pay individuals to surrender firearms (and some accessories/ammunition) for destruction or law-enforcement use, with no new purchase, ownership, or carry mandates or bans.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  =No change to gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Apr 17, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR2930 2025-2026By Randy Feenstra (R) · 15 cosponsors
  PROTECT the Second Amendment Act

  AI summary Prohibits HUD- or USDA-assisted rental housing providers from banning or adding restrictions on lawful firearm possession in residents' units or when carrying through common areas, so more ability to possess firearms in such housing.

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, carry
  Stage: Committee Apr 17, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
• USHR2915 2025-2026By Barry Moore (R) · 4 cosponsors
  Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act

  AI summary Prohibits the IRS from purchasing, receiving, or storing firearms or ammunition and requires transferring and selling existing ones, so fewer government agencies have access to or control over firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Apr 14, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USS1436 2025-2026By Joni Ernst (R)
  Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act

  AI summary Prohibits the IRS from purchasing, receiving, or storing firearms or ammunition and requires transferring and selling existing ones, so less ability for IRS to possess or use firearms.

  =No change to gun access ✓ Reviewedother
  Stage: Committee Apr 10, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• USHR2799 2025-2026By Dina Titus (D) · 152 cosponsors
  Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act of 2025

  AI summary Prohibits devices and modifications that increase the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms or approximate machinegun action, and requires registration of previously modified firearms under the National Firearms Act, so more restrictions on firearm accessories and modifications.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Apr 9, 2025: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR2698 2025-2026By Bennie G. Thompson (D) · 15 cosponsors
  Bolstering Security Against Ghost Guns Act

  AI summary Requires DHS to develop strategies, threat assessments, reports, and performance measures focused on ghost guns (privately made firearms) and partially complete frames/receivers as homeland security threats, including cross-border smuggling and terrorism risks, increasing federal attention and data,

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: Committee Apr 7, 2025: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
• USS1294 2025-2026By Richard J. Durbin (D) · 13 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Federal Firearm Licensee Act

  AI summary Imposes new physical security, inventory, electronic recordkeeping, video surveillance, and reporting requirements on FFLs; repeals Tiahrt Amendments and other limits on ATF; increases penalties, fees, and enforcement tools against dealers, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother, industry liability, purchase background checks, preemption sanctuary, storage minors
  Stage: Committee Apr 3, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S2175-2181)
• USHR2650 2025-2026By Joe Neguse (D) · 4 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  End Gun Violence Act of 2025

  AI summary Expands the list of people to whom firearm sales are prohibited under 18 USC 922(d) by adding those convicted of a violent misdemeanor in the past 5 years, and updates the NICS background check system to enforce this new prohibition, so fewer people can legally buy firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Apr 3, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR2618 2025-2026By Robin L. Kelly (D) · 89 cosponsors
  Federal Firearm Licensee Act

  AI summary Imposes new physical security requirements, mandatory quarterly physical inventory checks with reporting of missing firearms, electronic recordkeeping and searchable databases, video surveillance of sales, background checks on dealers/employees, regulation of firearm transfer facilitators, increased

  ↓Restricts gun accessother, industry liability, purchase background checks, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: Committee Apr 3, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS1224 2025-2026By Tom Cotton (R) · 14 cosponsors
  RIFLE Act

  AI summary Repeals the $200 federal transfer tax on NFA firearms, so lower cost and fewer restrictions on buying, owning and transferring them.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Apr 1, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• USHR2552 2025-2026By Ashley Hinson (R) · 33 cosponsors
  RIFLE Act

  AI summary Repeals the $200 transfer tax on NFA firearms, so lower cost and fewer restrictions on buying, owning and transferring them.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Apr 1, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
• USS1169 2025-2026By James E. Risch (R) · 19 cosponsors
  Freedom from Unfair Gun Taxes Act

  AI summary Prohibits states from levying excise taxes on firearm and ammunition manufacturers and dealers for sales in or affecting interstate commerce, shielding them from this form of taxation.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Mar 27, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• USHR2442 2025-2026By Darrell Issa (R) · 105 cosponsors
  Freedom from Unfair Gun Taxes Act of 2025

  AI summary Prohibits states from levying excise taxes on firearm and ammunition manufacturers and dealers for sales in or affecting interstate commerce, reducing financial burdens on the gun industry.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Mar 27, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS1076 2025-2026By Amy Klobuchar (D) · 12 cosponsors
  Preventing Illegal Weapons Trafficking Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires a federal strategy to detect, intercept, seize, trace, and investigate machinegun conversion devices (including 3D-printed ones) at borders and domestically, and adds forfeiture of proceeds from their illegal trafficking, so more restrictions on these devices.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  Stage: Committee Mar 14, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR2105 2025-2026By Sean Casten (D) · 31 cosponsors
  Preventing Illegal Weapons Trafficking Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires a federal strategy to detect, intercept, seize, trace, and investigate machinegun conversion devices (including 3D-printed ones) at borders and domestically, and adds forfeiture of proceeds from their illegal trafficking, so more restrictions on these devices.

  ↓Restricts gun accessweapon accessory restrictions
  =No change to gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Mar 14, 2025: Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
• USS966 2025-2026By Mike Rounds (R) · 11 cosponsors
  Traveler's Gun Rights Act

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'State of residence' for federal firearms law purposes to include multiple states where a person maintains a home (while present), the permanent duty station or commuting abode for military members, or a mailbox for those without physical residence, allowing purchases and N

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, purchase background checks
  Stage: Committee Mar 11, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR2060 2025-2026By Dusty Johnson (R) · 6 cosponsors
  Traveler’s Gun Rights Act

  AI summary Broadens the definition of 'State of residence' for federal firearms law purposes to include military duty stations, commuting abodes, and mailbox states, and allows multi-state residents to be treated as residents in each state when present, so more people can buy and possess firearms in more than

  ↑Expands gun accesspreemption sanctuary, purchase background checks
  Stage: Committee Mar 11, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS889 2025-2026By Richard Blumenthal (D) · 17 cosponsors
  Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act of 2025

  AI summary 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,

  ↓Restricts gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: Committee Mar 6, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR962 2025-2026By Chip Roy (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Defending Veterans’ Second Amendment Rights Act

  AI summary Prohibits VA from sharing disability info with DOJ/NICS, so veterans with service-connected disabilities are less likely to be flagged as prohibited from buying guns.

  ↑Expands gun accesspurchase background checks
  Stage: Committee Mar 6, 2025: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
• USHR1773 2025-2026By John H. Rutherford (R) · 145 cosponsors
  Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2025

  AI summary Enhances criminal penalties for theft of firearms from federal firearms licensees (FFLs), including mandatory minimum sentences for burglary or robbery, so more deterrence against thefts that affect the firearms industry.

  =No change to gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Mar 3, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR1456 2025-2026By Sean Casten (D) · 24 cosponsors
  Gun Trafficker Detection Act

  AI summary Creates a federal requirement for non-licensees to report lost/stolen firearms within 48 hours, imposes escalating civil penalties for noncompliance, bars repeat violators from receiving firearms for 1-5 years, and updates NICS to enforce those bars, so more restrictions on firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 21, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS595 2025-2026By Christopher Murphy (D) · 8 cosponsors
  Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2025

  AI summary Establishes a federal Office of Gun Violence Prevention within DOJ to coordinate, evaluate, research, educate on, and recommend policies for reducing gun violence, including background checks, secure storage, and suicide prevention.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Feb 13, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR1307 2025-2026By Maxwell Frost (D) · 136 cosponsors
  Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2025

  AI summary Establishes a federal Office of Gun Violence Prevention within DOJ to coordinate, evaluate, research, educate on, and recommend policies for gun violence prevention including background checks, secure storage, and suicide prevention, so more federal activity aimed at reducing gun violence.

  ↓Restricts gun accessother, storage minors, purchase background checks
  Stage: Committee Feb 13, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR1224 2025-2026By Andrew Ogles (R) · 17 cosponsors
  Protecting the Second Amendment in Financial Services Act

  AI summary Prohibits payment processors from using a separate merchant category code for firearms or ammunition merchants, preventing financial institutions from tracking or flagging gun-related transactions and thereby shielding the industry from potential restrictions or liability based on such data.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 12, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
• USS468 2025-2026By Richard J. Durbin (D) · 10 cosponsors
  SECURE Firearm Storage Act

  AI summary Requires licensed firearms dealers, importers, and manufacturers to use specific locking methods or safes to secure inventory firearms when premises are closed, so more restrictions on unsecured storage of firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, industry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 6, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S795)
• USHR1097 2025-2026By Bradley Scott Schneider (D) · 8 cosponsors
  SECURE Firearm Storage Act

  AI summary Requires licensed firearms dealers, importers, and manufacturers to use specific locking methods or safes to secure inventory firearms when premises are closed, so more restrictions on unsecured storage of firearms by dealers.

  ↓Restricts gun accessstorage minors, industry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 6, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR943 2025-2026By Ronny Jackson (R) · 51 cosponsors
  No User Fees for Gun Owners Act

  AI summary Prohibits states and localities from imposing liability insurance requirements as a condition of firearm or ammunition ownership or commerce, so fewer restrictions on firearms.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, preemption sanctuary, other
  Stage: Committee Feb 4, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• USHR624 2025-2026By Tracey Mann (R) · 34 cosponsors
  RIFLE Act of 2025

  AI summary Imposes graduated penalties, higher evidentiary standards for willfulness, time limits on enforcement actions, and other procedural protections for federal firearms licensees facing civil or administrative penalties, so fewer restrictions on firearms dealers and manufacturers.

  ↑Expands gun accessindustry liability, other
  Stage: Committee Jan 22, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR563 2025-2026By Michael Cloud (R) · 75 cosponsors
  No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act

  AI summary Requires destruction of existing ATF firearm transaction records from discontinued businesses and amends law to stop future collection of such records, so less federal retention of gun owner data and reduced risk of a national firearms registry.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jan 20, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS123 2025-2026By Chris Van Hollen (D) · 2 cosponsors
  Handgun Permit to Purchase Act

  AI summary Authorizes federal grants to states and localities that enact and operate handgun purchaser licensing programs requiring applicants to be at least 21, undergo a background investigation and criminal history check (at minimum ensuring they are not prohibited under 18 USC 922(g)), submit fingerprints,

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Committee Jan 16, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS119 2025-2026By James E. Risch (R) · 13 cosponsors
  No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act

  AI summary Requires destruction of existing ATF firearm transaction records from discontinued businesses and amends law to stop future collection of such records, so less federal retention of gun owner data.

  ↑Expands gun accessother
  Stage: Committee Jan 16, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR545 2025-2026By Ritchie Torres (D)
  To direct the Attorney General to conduct a study on the efficacy of extreme risk protection orders on reducing gun violence, and for other purposes.

  AI summary Directs a federal study on the efficacy of extreme risk protection orders (red-flag laws) on reducing gun violence, with no change to their availability or requirements.

  =No change to gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: Committee Jan 16, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR544 2025-2026By Ritchie Torres (D)
  To provide a private right of action against the maker of any component of a ghost gun, and any person who facilitated a sale of the ghost gun, for injury or death resulting from the use of the ghost gun.

  AI summary Creates a private right of action allowing lawsuits for damages against makers of ghost gun components and those who facilitated their sale when the gun causes injury or death, so greater liability for those involved in producing or selling unserialized firearms.

  ↓Restricts gun accessindustry liability
  Stage: Committee Jan 16, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR532 2025-2026By Jamie Raskin (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Handgun Permit to Purchase Act

  AI summary Authorizes federal grants to states and localities that enact and operate handgun purchaser licensing programs requiring applicants to undergo background investigations, criminal history checks, fingerprinting, and photographs to confirm they are not prohibited from possessing firearms under federal

  ↓Restricts gun accesspurchase background checks, other
  Stage: Committee Jan 16, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS89 2025-2026By James E. Risch (R) · 14 cosponsors
  Sporting Firearms Access Act of 2025

  AI summary Broadens the definition of firearms and ammunition suitable for sporting purposes, adds deadlines with deemed approval, prohibits denial of substantially similar items, requires written and public explanations for denials, mandates hearings and judicial review with burden on the Attorney General, so

  ↑Expands gun accessweapon accessory restrictions, other
  Stage: Committee Jan 14, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USS65 2025-2026By John Cornyn (R) · 49 cosponsors
  Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025

  AI summary Requires states to recognize out-of-state concealed-carry licenses or permitless carry from the person's home state when traveling to other states that allow concealed carry, so greater ability to carry concealed firearms across state lines.

  ↑Expands gun accesscarry, preemption sanctuary
  Stage: Committee Jan 9, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• USHR223 2025-2026By Dan Crenshaw (R) · 2 cosponsors
  Preventing Unjust Red Flag Laws Act of 2025

  AI summary Prohibits any federal funds from being used to implement or enforce federal red flag laws or to assist states in doing so, so red-flag orders become unavailable or unenforceable in practice.

  ↑Expands gun accessred flag erpo
  Stage: Committee Jan 7, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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