Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act
The bill protects firearms retailers' privacy and limits firearm-specific transaction labeling while preserving payment-security functions, but it shifts enforcement to the federal level, preempts local regulation, and leaves retailers without a private lawsuit option — potentially slowing remedies and imposing costs on banks.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
The bill strengthens veterans' privacy and protects firearm‑related rights from administrative VA fiduciary determinations, at the cost of reducing an administrative pathway into federal background‑check lists and shifting responsibility (and potential delay) to courts and agencies, which may raise public‑safety and implementation concerns.
NICS Data Reporting Act of 2026
The bill increases transparency by requiring annual demographic reporting on NICS denials—helping Congress identify disparities and improve appeals fairness—while raising privacy risks for individuals, adding administrative costs, and creating the potential for misleading conclusions if categories are inconsistent.
To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
The bill expands market access and regulatory clarity for less-than-lethal projectile devices—lowering costs and easing law-enforcement use—but reduces federal revenue and creates safety, oversight, and civil-liberties risks by loosening firearms-related safeguards.
Federal Law Enforcement Officer Service Weapon Purchase Act of 2025
The bill lets current and former federal law-enforcement personnel buy retired agency firearms cheaply — preserving value and training continuity for officers and cutting agency disposal costs — but it increases guns in private hands, weakens public oversight, risks taxpayer revenue, and creates legal/administrative complexity.
LEOSA Reform Act
The bill makes it easier for current and former law-enforcement officers to carry firearms in school zones, federal facilities, and under broader qualifying rules—reducing legal uncertainty and administrative burdens for officers while raising safety, oversight, and school/community confidence concerns.
Expressing support for the designation of November 20, 2025, through December 20, 2025, as "National Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness Month".
The resolution reframes gun violence as a national public-health crisis to prioritize survivor-centered, community-based prevention and targeted support for disproportionately affected communities—potentially unlocking funding and coordinated services while creating new public costs, local implementation burdens, and political controversy over targeted interventions.
Honoring the contributions of small manufacturers of firearms to the economy, culture, and recreational heritage of the United States and recognizing August 2025 as "National Shooting Sports Month".
The resolution aims to preserve jobs, local economic activity, and cultural traditions tied to small firearms manufacturers, while raising concerns that it could increase perceived public-safety risks and divert attention or resources away from gun-violence prevention.
Traveler's Gun Rights Act
The bill strengthens identity verification for gun purchases and clarifies residence rules for some buyers, improving fraud prevention and legal clarity, at the cost of expanded federal collection of personal data and added administrative burdens that raise privacy, access, and compliance concerns—especially for vulnerable populations and small dealers.
Protect Our Military Families’ 2nd Amendment Rights Act
The bill expands and clarifies firearm purchase/possession rights and residency protections for service members and their spouses—reducing legal uncertainty and administrative inconsistency—while raising enforcement challenges, potential state-law conflicts, and modest administrative costs.
Saving Our Veterans Lives Act of 2025
The bill improves veteran safety by providing funded lockboxes, vouchers, and education to encourage secure firearm storage, at the trade-off of modest long‑term federal spending, program restrictions on resale, added administrative burden, and potential reluctance among some veterans to participate.
Sporting Firearms Access Act of 2025
The bill speeds and clarifies import approvals and strengthens importers' rights to challenge denials, but does so at the cost of raising public‑safety risks from auto-approved imports and increasing litigation and enforcement burdens on government.
Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act of 2025
The bill strengthens public safety by expanding ERPO use, cross‑jurisdictional enforcement, reporting to background‑check systems, and funding for implementation — but it does so at the cost of temporary firearm suspensions via ex parte orders, expanded data sharing and privacy/accuracy risks, increased administrative burdens and costs, and potential uneven application across jurisdictions.
ATF Transparency Act
The bill speeds lawful firearm transfers and creates formal appeals, fee relief, and oversight to fix NICS errors and protect good‑faith actors, but it increases public-safety and administrative risks by allowing deemed approvals, raising privacy and coordination challenges, and creating potential new workloads and costs.
Keep Americans Safe Act
The bill narrows and clarifies what counts as a large-capacity feeding device and funds voluntary buy-backs to reduce high-capacity magazines in circulation—balancing clearer enforcement and potential public-safety gains against new criminal liabilities, expanded forfeiture authority, business and taxpayer costs, and uneven program impacts.
Ethan's Law
The bill aims to reduce accidental and youth firearm injuries and improve victim remedies by promoting and enforcing secure gun storage and enabling federal action, but it does so by imposing criminal, civil, administrative, and financial burdens—and raising due-process and rights concerns—that could prompt legal challenges and costs for owners and governments.
LEOSA Reform Act
The bill expands and clarifies carry exemptions and simplifies certification for current and retired officers—improving their ability to retain carry rights and respond quickly—while increasing firearm presence that raises safety risks and creates administrative, liability, and consistency challenges for schools, federal facilities, carriers, and the public.
Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier for nonresident permit-holders to carry across state lines and reduces administrative barriers for travelers, at the expense of raising public-safety risks, undermining stricter State permitting regimes, and imposing new costs on state and local governments.
Age 21 Act
The bill tightens access to handguns, semiautomatic weapons, and large-capacity magazines for under-21s and clarifies definitions to help enforcement—trading broader public safety gains against substantial limits on lawful ownership for 18–20-year-olds, compliance costs, potential criminalization of common items, and litigation/uncertainty risks.
Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and funds federal coordination, data, and services to prevent and respond to gun violence—improving support and evidence for policy—while increasing taxpayer costs, administrative burdens, and raising privacy and rights concerns for some stakeholders.
State Firearms Dealer Licensing Enhancement Act
The bill offers federal funding to help states license firearms dealers and strengthen public safety and law‑enforcement capabilities, but it increases federal and state administrative costs and imposes compliance costs on dealers (borne ultimately by taxpayers and small businesses).
Blair Holt Firearm Owner Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2026
This bill sharply expands federal licensing, transfer reporting, safe‑storage rules, and enforcement to reduce unlawful access to firearms and improve tracing and research, but it does so at the cost of significant new privacy risks, compliance burdens and criminal exposure for owners and sellers, and potential state‑federal legal conflict.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act of 2025
The bill protects veterans' privacy and due-process rights by requiring a judicial finding before VA fiduciary-related cases are reported to NICS, but that protection may delay reporting and increase administrative burdens, potentially letting some prohibited purchasers obtain firearms before a court can act.
Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act
The bill substantially shields firearms-related manufacturers, sellers, and associated parties from many state-law lawsuits and reduces court burdens and legal uncertainty, but does so by restricting victims’ ability to recover, limiting state and local enforcement options, and potentially shifting costs onto taxpayers.
SECURE Firearm Storage Act
The bill strengthens physical and records security for licensed firearm businesses and gives the Attorney General flexible enforcement tools to deter theft, at the cost of added compliance expenses, greater regulatory control (including possible surveillance), and stricter penalties that can jeopardize small dealers' licenses and legal remedies.
Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2026
The bill strengthens penalties to deter thefts and improve safety at licensed gun businesses, but does so by imposing mandatory minimum sentences that increase incarceration, limit judicial discretion, and raise costs for taxpayers.
Firearm Safety Act of 2026
The bill aims to reduce firearm-related accidents by bringing guns under CPSC consumer-safety rules, at the cost of higher compliance expenses, possible retail price increases, constitutional and political disputes, and potential regulatory overlap with existing firearms authorities.
Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2026
The bill directs federal funding and new criminal and regulatory rules to reduce gun violence, improve traceability, and protect vulnerable people, but it increases federal oversight, compliance costs, privacy and due-process risks, and the chance that ordinary owners face criminal or civil liability.
Child Suicide Prevention Act
The bill directs modest federal funding and creates evidence-based training, counseling, device distribution, and centralized guidance to reduce suicide risk—especially among youth—while trading off increased federal spending, limited program scale, administrative burdens, and privacy/ political concerns that may limit reach and uptake.
Vote Without Fear Act
The bill strengthens safety around elections by restricting firearms near polling locations and clarifying federal enforcement, at the cost of limiting some lawful firearm-related conduct on or near private property and raising risks of criminal enforcement and legal burdens for people near polling sites.
