Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
The bill strengthens veterans' privacy and protects them from losing rights based solely on VA administrative fiduciary or competence determinations, but it does so at the cost of potentially reducing law-enforcement access to mental-competency information and increasing public-safety risks and administrative burdens by shifting determinations to courts.
NICS Data Reporting Act of 2026
The bill increases transparency and the ability to detect disparities in firearm-purchase denials by mandating annual demographic reporting, but does so at the cost of privacy risks for vulnerable individuals, additional taxpayer-funded administrative burdens, and the risk of misleading conclusions if data are incomplete.
Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act
The bill clarifies and streamlines rules for certain less‑than‑lethal projectile devices—reducing taxes and regulatory burdens for businesses and expanding law‑enforcement options—but does so at the cost of weaker firearms-style safeguards, potential safety loopholes, administrative complexities, and reduced federal revenue, raising public-safety and civil‑liberties concerns.
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 gives national recognition to victims and encourages anti-violence advocacy and civility, while risking perceptions of a policy stance on gun rights and potentially drawing modest legislative attention away from other priorities.
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 offers important symbolic recognition, awareness, and encouragement of community support for victims of an anti-LGBTQ+ attack, but it is nonbinding and does not secure funding or policy changes—meaning practical relief and reforms require additional legislative or appropriations action.
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.
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 emphasizes preserving jobs, local economies, training, and traditions tied to small firearm manufacturers, but does so at the risk of public-safety concerns and shifting political attention away from gun-violence prevention.
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 symbolic public recognition that can validate victims and honor responders, but it provides no material support and may raise expectations or re‑traumatize survivors.
Traveler's Gun Rights Act
The bill strengthens identity verification and clarifies residence rules for certain buyers—potentially reducing fraudulent purchases and easing military-related confusion—while increasing federal data collection and compliance burdens and creating new practical barriers for people who rely on mailboxes as their address.
Protect Our Military Families’ 2nd Amendment Rights Act
The bill clarifies and expands firearm possession and purchase protections and residency rules for active-duty service members and their spouses—making life easier for military families and reducing inconsistency—while increasing potential enforcement challenges, state-law conflicts, and modest administrative burdens.
Saving Our Veterans Lives Act of 2025
The bill expands access to secure firearm storage and suicide-prevention education for veterans through sustained federal funding and partnerships, trading modest federal spending and added administration for improved safety—while uptake may be limited by veteran distrust and recipients face restrictions on reselling provided lockboxes.
Sporting Firearms Access Act of 2025
The bill speeds and clarifies import approval and strengthens due-process and transparency for challengers—benefiting small importers and applicants—while increasing the risk that potentially dangerous or subtly altered firearms/ammunition could be approved and raising government litigation and enforcement burdens.
Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act of 2025
The bill expands and standardizes ERPO use, reporting, funding, and interstate/Tribal enforcement to reduce access to firearms by people judged dangerous—improving public safety and victim protections—but it also centralizes sensitive records, raises due-process and privacy risks, increases administrative costs, and may unevenly restrict lawful gun owners before full hearings.
ATF Transparency Act
This bill speeds lawful firearm transfers and creates appeal rights, fee recovery, and interagency oversight to reduce wrongful denials and delays, but it increases the risk that prohibited persons obtain firearms, raises privacy and coordination challenges, and adds administrative costs and potential backlogs.
Keep Americans Safe Act
The bill aims to reduce the circulation of high-capacity magazines and fund local buy-backs to improve public safety while balancing law-enforcement access and grandfathering existing owners — but it expands criminal liability, seizure authority, and compliance costs for many gun owners and businesses, shifting trade-offs between public-safety benefits and rights, market impacts, and federal/local costs.
Amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
The bill aims to improve child, school, and community safety by promoting or requiring secure firearm storage and expanding avenues for victim compensation, but it also imposes costs, new penalties and civil exposure on gun owners, raises due-process and rights concerns, and creates enforcement and legal-uncertainty burdens for governments and courts.
LEOSA Reform Act
The bill expands carry exemptions and streamlines certification for current and retired officers—improving legal clarity and on-site armed response—but increases the presence of firearms and raises safety, enforcement, and liability concerns for schools, federal facilities, and property owners.
Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier for lawful nonresident gun owners to carry across State lines—reducing administrative burdens for travelers and clarifying enforcement—while raising public-safety concerns, weakening States' ability to enforce stricter local standards, and creating potential costs for governments and taxpayers.
Age 21 Act
The bill tightens access to handguns and high-capacity semiautomatic firearms for those under 21 and clarifies weapon definitions to aid enforcement, trading likely public-safety benefits for reduced ownership rights for 18–20‑year‑olds plus added compliance costs and legal uncertainty for owners, sellers, and government.
Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2025
The bill centralizes federal research, coordination, and prevention efforts to expand services, data, and education on gun violence—potentially improving public health and policymaking—while increasing federal spending, administrative obligations, and raising privacy and rights concerns for some stakeholders.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act of 2025
The bill protects veterans' privacy and due-process rights by requiring a court finding before reporting fiduciary beneficiaries to NICS, but it may delay reporting of potentially dangerous individuals and adds procedural burdens on the VA and courts.
SECURE Firearm Storage Act
The bill strengthens security and enforcement for licensed firearm businesses to reduce theft and improve public safety, but it imposes new costs, regulatory burdens, surveillance risks, and tighter limits on legal challenges for those businesses.
Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2026
The bill increases public safety by tightening transfers, expanding background checks, funding ERPO/relinquishment implementation, and strengthening child/campus protections—but does so by broadening criminal exposure, adding compliance costs and federal oversight, and creating due‑process and privacy concerns for some individuals.
Stop Militarizing Our Streets Act of 2026
The bill reduces civilian access to military-style weapons and tightens dealer controls to improve public safety and oversight, while imposing costs, ammunition purchase limits, privacy concerns, and potential procurement and spending complications that affect dealers, lawful purchasers, the DoD, and taxpayers.
National Constitutional Carry Act
The bill expands and nationalizes the right of eligible individuals to carry firearms in public—providing clarity and uniformity for carriers and travelers—while removing local control and raising substantial public-safety, enforcement, and fiscal risks.
Tribal Firearm Access Act
The bill makes it easier for Tribal residents with government-issued Tribal IDs to buy firearms and gives sellers a clear, objective verification standard, but it raises fraud concerns if Tribal IDs lack security features, leaves those without Tribal IDs behind, and creates short-term administrative burdens for sellers and regulators.
Tribal Police Department Parity Act
The bill extends federal firearms transfer and tax exemptions to tribal governments—advancing parity and lowering costs for tribal law enforcement—while reducing some federal oversight uniformity and producing a modest loss of Treasury revenue.
Gun Owner Registration Information Protection Act
The bill protects privacy by preventing federal funding for firearm-owner lists and limits federal involvement in ownership tracking, but it shifts costs to states and may reduce federal support that aids firearm tracing and criminal investigations.
Stop Illegal Alien Cops Act
The bill reduces legal ambiguity and may improve enforcement of firearm‑disqualification rules (potentially enhancing public safety) but expands the practical scope of disqualifications and relief limits, risks stigmatizing immigrants through its title, and raises administrative burdens for agencies.
Language Access to Gun Violence Prevention Strategies Act of 2026
The bill broadens and funds culturally competent, multilingual outreach and coordinated federal messaging to increase awareness and access to gun-violence prevention tools, especially for LEP and underserved communities, while imposing new federal costs, administrative burdens, and raising concerns about rights, trust, and potential reallocation of funds away from direct services.
