Assault Weapons Ban of 2025

Summary

Prohibits the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, and possession of defined semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices, while creating detailed feature- and model-based definitions, exemptions, and limited grandfathering for weapons lawfully possessed at enactment. Requires secure storage rules for grandfathered weapons, adds a new regulated transfer process for unlicensed transfers (effective 90 days after enactment), directs the Attorney General to publish an annual public record of assault weapons used in crimes, expands criminal penalty cross-references, allows Byrne grant funds to pay for buybacks, and includes a severability clause.

• Prohibits import, sale, manufacture, transfer, and possession of defined semiautomatic assault weapons and magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.
• Adds detailed feature- and model-based federal definitions to classify covered weapons and components.
• Grandfathering: persons lawfully possessing covered weapons at enactment may keep them but must meet secure-storage rules and new transfer restrictions.
• Starting 90 days after enactment, unlicensed-to-unlicensed private transfers of grandfathered weapons must be handled through a licensed importer/manufacturer/dealer who completes statutory transfer steps.
• Provides exemptions for federal/state governments and certain law enforcement officers, limited retired-officer exceptions, licensed industry testing, and specific Atomic Energy Act security uses.
• Attorney General must publish an annual public list of semiautomatic assault weapons used in crimes and has rulemaking authority to implement transfer rules.
• Expands criminal penalty cross-references and seizure/forfeiture authorities to cover the new prohibited acts.
• Permits Byrne Grant funds to be used for buy-back payments of covered weapons and high-capacity feeding devices.
• Includes a severability clause to keep the remainder of the law in force if part is struck down.