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 protects veterans' privacy and prevents loss of firearm-related rights based solely on VA fiduciary appointments by restricting data-sharing with background-check systems, at the cost of increased judicial/administrative workload and potential public-safety gaps from reduced automatic reporting.
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 legal access and market clarity for less‑than‑lethal projectile devices and lowers costs for producers and buyers, but it increases public‑safety and civil‑liberties risks and reduces federal excise revenue while creating new regulatory workloads.
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 strengthens firearm-related protections and residency flexibility for military members and their spouses, improving clarity for families and federal actors, at the cost of increased enforcement complexity, potential federal–state conflicts, and modest administrative burdens.
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 firearm transfers and creates formal appeals and oversight mechanisms to correct erroneous denials, but it increases public-safety and enforcement risks from faster deemed approvals and raises administrative costs, privacy concerns, and coordination challenges for agencies and taxpayers.
Keep Americans Safe Act
The bill narrows civilian access to high‑capacity magazines and funds buy‑backs to reduce mass‑shooting risk while preserving law‑enforcement and critical‑facility exceptions, trading reduced public availability and clearer rules for increased criminal/prosecution risk, economic impacts on collectors/businesses, and implementation challenges.
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.
Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act
The bill standardizes and expands limited federal carry privileges for qualified former special-operations personnel with training and documentation while streamlining verification and reducing litigation risk — but it raises public-safety, privacy, administrative, and enforcement-accountability concerns.
Lori Jackson-Nicolette Elias Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
The bill tightens and clarifies federal firearm prohibitions tied to domestic-violence and protective orders—likely improving safety for many survivors and standardizing reporting—but it raises due-process and coverage-gap concerns and will impose administrative and funding burdens on governments and courts.
Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act
The bill tightens criminal definitions and raises penalties to deter and prosecute interference with federal border controls and reduce information-facilitated smuggling, but does so at the cost of broader criminal exposure for ordinary information-sharers (including journalists and aid workers) and higher public incarceration/enforcement costs.
State Firearms Dealer Licensing Enhancement Act
The bill trades federal funding to help states regulate firearms dealers and improve law‑enforcement tools — which could reduce illegal sales and boost public safety — against increased federal and state fiscal costs and new compliance burdens on dealers.
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 creates broad federal protections and procedural rules that reduce litigation risk and legal uncertainty for manufacturers, sellers, and related parties and improve court efficiency for some claims, but it significantly limits victims' and states' ability to seek compensation, accountability, and local enforcement—shifting risk and potential costs onto victims, taxpayers, and local governments.
SECURE Firearm Storage Act
The bill strengthens physical security requirements and enforcement tools to reduce firearms theft and improve public safety, but it shifts costs, regulatory burdens, surveillance risks, and stiffer license penalties onto small firearms businesses.
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.
