Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act
The bill makes certain less‑than‑lethal projectile devices cheaper and administratively easier to make, buy, and use (expanding nonlethal options and easing burden on makers) in exchange for greater availability that raises risks to public safety, enforcement complexity, and federal excise revenue.
Recognizing the 15th anniversary of the January 8, 2011, Tucson, Arizona, shooting and honoring the survivors and victims, including former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, a gun violence survivor and one of the most influential voices of courage in the United States in the fight to end gun violence.
The resolution honors victims and spotlights first responders and anti-gun-violence advocacy—helping healing and policy attention—but risks deepening polarization and being used to justify contested spending or regulations.
Recognizing the third commemoration of the anti-LGBTQ+ attack that occurred on November 19-20, 2022, at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The resolution honors victims and supports a local resource center and recognition of bravery, but it offers no binding federal aid or protections and may retraumatize survivors while shifting memorial costs onto local communities.
Federal Law Enforcement Officer Service Weapon Purchase Act of 2025
The bill lets federal officers buy their retired service weapons cheaply—saving officers money, preserving training continuity, and easing agency disposal—while increasing the number of former government firearms in private hands, weakening oversight, and producing modest lost revenue and administrative costs.
LEOSA Reform Act
This bill clarifies and expands where qualified officers and federally authorized concealed carriers may carry—providing legal certainty and potentially faster certification while enabling armed response in some federal venues—but it increases exposure to firearms in schools and federal buildings and raises training, enforcement, liability, and public-safety 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 public health crisis and elevates survivor recognition and leadership to expand prevention, support, and advocacy, but it may require new public spending, strain local capacity, and spur contested policy debates.
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".
This resolution highlights and defends the economic and cultural contributions of small firearms manufacturers and shooting sports while offering affirmation rather than new public-safety measures, potentially strengthening industry influence against future regulation.
Expressing condolences of the Senate and honoring the memory of the victims on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, on July 4, 2022.
The resolution offers important symbolic recognition—condolences, thanks to responders, and acknowledgment of volunteer mental‑health support—but it is purely declaratory and creates no new policies or funding, trading symbolic support for the lack of concrete remedies.
Commemorating June 17, 2025, as the tenth anniversary of the Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting.
The resolution solemnly honors the Emanuel Nine and records the convictions, but it remains symbolic — offering remembrance without funding, services, or legal reforms and carrying a risk of retraumatizing survivors.
Expressing support for the designation of June 6, 2025, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Day" and June 2025 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month".
The resolution raises awareness and honors victims of gun violence but contains no funding or policy measures, making it primarily symbolic rather than a direct means to reduce gun violence.
Traveler's Gun Rights Act
The bill tightens identity and residency verification for firearm transfers to reduce fraud and straw purchases, but it may impede lawful purchases for people without stable addresses and impose new compliance and enforcement burdens on service members, dealers, and law enforcement.
Protect Our Military Families’ 2nd Amendment Rights Act
The bill clarifies and expands firearm residency and transfer rules to make it easier for military service members and spouses to possess and move firearms, trading off broader firearm access and legal ease for military families against increased safety risks, potential weakening of state controls, and added enforcement complexity.
Sporting Firearms Access Act of 2025
The bill creates faster, more predictable and more transparent import-review processes with stronger applicant review rights, but at the cost of constraining ATF's discretion to block potentially dangerous imports and increasing risks of disclosure and enforcement costs.
Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act of 2025
The bill strengthens tools, funding, and data systems to keep firearms away from people courts find dangerous—potentially reducing suicides and violence—but it increases administrative costs and raises significant due-process, privacy, and enforcement-error risks for named individuals and jurisdictions.
ATF Transparency Act
The bill trades faster, clearer procedures and new appeal rights (reducing wrongful denials and transfer delays) and increased oversight for heightened public-safety risks from deemed approvals, greater privacy and administrative burdens, and added costs to taxpayers.
Keep Americans Safe Act
The bill aims to boost public safety by banning and removing large-capacity feeding devices and strengthening enforcement tools, but does so at the cost of criminalizing certain lawful owners, imposing economic harms on collectors and accessory businesses, creating enforcement ambiguities, and reallocating grant funds away from other local public-safety priorities.
Amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
The bill aims to reduce child access, accidental shootings, and firearm diversion by encouraging and enforcing safer storage, but it does so while creating criminal and civil exposure, economic costs, and legal uncertainty that could burden lawful gun owners and prompt rights and due-process challenges.
LEOSA Reform Act
The bill expands and clarifies who (federal permit holders, active and retired officers) may carry firearms in schools, public federal facilities, and other public spaces—improving legal clarity and officers' ability to respond, while increasing firearms presence, reducing local control, and creating potential safety, training consistency, and oversight concerns.
Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025
The bill creates a predictable, nationwide recognition of concealed-carry licenses—benefiting licensed travelers and standardizing carry rights—while reducing States' control and raising potential public-safety, enforcement, and economic risks.
Age 21 Act
The bill substantially reduces youth access to many firearms to improve safety, but does so by restricting 18–20‑year‑olds' ownership and creating legal, enforcement, and administrative burdens that could produce uncertainty and uneven impacts across jurisdictions.
Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2025
The bill builds federal capacity to coordinate research, prevention, and crisis-response for a broader definition of gun violence—potentially improving services and data-driven policymaking—but does so at increased federal cost and with risks around resource shifts, privacy, and perceptions of federal overreach.
PLCAA Federal Jurisdiction Act
The bill centralizes civil suits against gun-industry actors in federal courts and allows dismissal of certain claims, trading greater legal uniformity and reduced liability exposure for manufacturers and sellers against reduced state-level remedies, local accountability, and potential federal cost increases.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act of 2025
The bill strengthens privacy and due-process protections for veterans with VA-appointed fiduciaries by preventing automatic VA reporting to NICS, but it may delay or hinder reporting of dangerous individuals to background-check systems and impose additional legal and administrative burdens.
SECURE Firearm Storage Act
The bill tightens physical security and record‑keeping at licensed firearm businesses to reduce theft and improve traceability, but it shifts substantial compliance costs and enforcement risks onto those businesses while leaving some record‑storage and specification details ambiguous.
Vote Without Fear Act
The bill aims to make Federal elections safer by banning most firearms at polling places and adding enforcement tools while preserving limited official exemptions, but it creates uncertainty and the potential for criminalization and enforcement costs for lawful gun owners and nearby residents.
Stop Militarizing Our Streets Act of 2026
The bill tightens controls, transparency, and background-check access for ammunition and certain government-origin weapons to reduce diversion and illegal access, while creating new compliance costs, procurement constraints, and limits that will affect small businesses, lawful high-volume purchasers, and some industry transactions.
National Constitutional Carry Act
The bill expands and federally protects public carrying of firearms and creates a uniform national rule—giving lawful carriers greater freedom and legal clarity while substantially limiting local control and raising public-safety, enforcement, and litigation risks.
Tribal Firearm Access Act
The bill removes a paperwork barrier for Tribal citizens and clarifies federal acceptance of Tribal IDs—enhancing Tribal sovereignty and smoother firearm transactions—while creating modest verification, safety-perception, and compliance challenges that officials and dealers must manage.
Tribal Police Department Parity Act
The bill lowers costs and clarifies timing for firearm buyers and manufacturers and cleans up criminal statute language, at the cost of reduced federal revenue and potential new enforcement and political concerns about favoring firearms.
Gun Owner Registration Information Protection Act
The bill protects individual privacy and state control by blocking federally supported registries of lawfully owned firearms, but does so at the cost of reducing federal assistance that could help states modernize records, support research, and facilitate some law-enforcement information-sharing.
