Sponsor
Debbie Dingell
Representative · D-MI
Representative · D-MI
The bill would let the CPSC impose safety and transparency requirements on firearms to reduce accidental harm, but it would also raise costs for owners and manufacturers and create legal and enforcement uncertainties.
Parents, children, and low-income individuals: Giving the CPSC authority over firearms could require warnings, safer designs, or recalls that reduce accidental injuries and deaths.
Consumers and taxpayers: Expanded CPSC oversight would increase product testing and reporting requirements for firearm manufacturers and importers, improving transparency about safety risks and compliance.
Firearm owners, small manufacturers, and retailers: New compliance, redesign, and labeling requirements could raise business costs and retail prices for firearms and accessories.
Manufacturers and legal stakeholders: New federal rules on firearms are likely to prompt litigation, producing regulatory uncertainty while courts and agencies resolve scope and standards.
Law enforcement: Expanding CPSC authority could create overlapping roles or limits on other agencies, complicating enforcement coordination and public-safety responsibilities.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Removes the statutory exclusion that prevented the CPSC from regulating firearms, giving the CPSC potential authority to treat firearms as consumer products for safety rulemaking and enforcement.
Official title: To amend the consumer product safety laws to repeal the exclusion of pistols, revolvers, and other firearms from the definition of consumer product under such laws.
Introduced June 3, 2026 by Debbie Dingell · Last progress June 3, 2026
Removes the statutory language that excluded pistols, revolvers, and other firearms from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) definition of "consumer product" and rescinds a related procedural limitation on CPSC rulemaking. As a result, the CPSC would gain statutory authority to treat firearms as consumer products and to pursue safety rules, standards, and enforcement concerning defective or unsafe firearms unless other statutory limits or judicial rulings limit that authority. The change is narrow in form (two short sections) but broad in effect: it opens the door for federal consumer-safety regulation of firearms by the CPSC, affecting manufacturers, retailers, purchasers, public safety officials, and courts that may review new regulations or litigation that follows from CPSC action.