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This bill strengthens tools, funding, and data-sharing to keep guns away from people courts find dangerous and to support cross‑jurisdiction enforcement, but it increases government-held data, administrative costs, and raises significant due‑process and privacy tradeoffs for affected individuals.
People determined by courts to pose a danger (including those at risk of suicide or interpersonal violence) will be prohibited from possessing or receiving firearms, reducing the risk of shootings and self-harm.
Law enforcement, courts, and Tribal governments receive federal grants and required training to implement ERPO laws, increasing local capacity, standardizing procedures, and improving on-the-ground prevention of firearm harm.
Background-check systems and national ERPO data sharing will let agencies and sellers more quickly identify active ERPOs, improving enforcement of firearm prohibitions and blocking prohibited purchasers.
People subject to ERPOs (respondents) may have firearm rights temporarily removed or face enforcement in distant jurisdictions before full adversarial hearings, raising significant due-process and civil‑liberties concerns.
Inclusion of ERPO records in national databases and expanded reporting increases the amount of sensitive government-held data, raising risks of misuse, improper disclosure, and disproportionate impact on marginalized communities.
Erroneous, outdated, or overbroad ERPO entries could lead to wrongful denials of firearm rights or enforcement actions against people not currently subject to orders, producing legal harms and administrative burdens to correct records.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes DOJ grants to implement ERPO laws, adds ERPO-based federal firearm disqualification, requires ERPOs be entered in national databases, and mandates interstate/Tribal recognition.
Official title: To support State, Tribal, and local efforts to remove access to firearms from individuals who are a danger to themselves or others pursuant to court orders for this purpose.
Introduced June 30, 2025 by Salud Carbajal · Last progress June 30, 2025
Creates a federal grant program to help States, Indian Tribes, local governments, and eligible entities implement extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws, requires courts and law enforcement to give full faith and credit to qualifying ERPOs, adds ERPO-based firearm prohibitions to federal law, and requires ERPO records be entered into national criminal justice databases. Changes take effect 180 days after enactment.