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The bill increases destruction standards and enforcement to reduce reuse of firearm components and improve public safety, but it raises compliance costs, expands who may be regulated or criminally exposed, and risks disrupting local disposal capacity.
Residents in urban and rural communities will face reduced risk from diverted firearm parts because businesses that destroy firearms must render every component inoperable, lowering the chance those parts are reused in crimes.
Consumers, regulated entities, and taxpayers get clearer compliance rules and stronger enforcement because the Attorney General can suspend or revoke licenses for noncompliant destroyers, improving regulatory consistency and accountability among licensed destroyers.
Small businesses and government contractors that legally destroy firearms face higher compliance costs and new criminal exposure (fines or up to 2 years imprisonment) if they fail to render every component inoperable.
Law enforcement agencies and local governments could see a reduced number of licensed destroyers after violations and license suspensions, disrupting local capacity for safe firearm and component disposal.
Individuals and small operators may be newly captured by an expanded definition of 'engaged in the business,' subjecting more people to federal regulation, paperwork, and potential penalties.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced January 16, 2026 by Maxwell Frost · Last progress January 16, 2026
Makes it a federal crime for businesses that destroy firearms to fail to render every component of a firearm permanently unusable when that firearm has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce. The bill creates a new statutory definition for a "destroyer of firearms," sets criminal penalties (fine and/or up to 2 years imprisonment) for violations, and gives the Attorney General authority to suspend or revoke federal firearms licenses for violators.