Sponsor
Russell Fry
Representative · R-SC
Representative · R-SC
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.
Current and retired Federal law-enforcement officers (and eligible federal employees) can purchase their agency firearms at salvage value within six months, allowing them to keep equipment value rather than having it fully disposed.
Officers who acquire their former service weapons can retain familiar service firearms, supporting continuity of training and safer handling for those who continue related duties or maintain collections.
Agencies may reduce disposal costs and recoup some value through sales to personnel rather than full surplus disposal procedures.
Communities (urban and rural) could see more firearms enter private hands, increasing public-safety risks associated with greater firearm circulation.
The program reduces public oversight and could complicate tracking and accountability for surplus federal firearms leaving government custody.
Selling weapons at 'salvage value' may function as a below-market subsidy to officers, creating an opportunity cost for taxpayers by not maximizing resale revenue.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs GSA to create a program allowing eligible federal law enforcement officers, including retirees, to buy agency-surplus firearms at salvage value within six months of retirement.
Creates a GSA-run program requiring the General Services Administrator to allow federal law enforcement officers — including retirees — to buy firearms their agency has declared surplus. The program must be established within one year and limit purchases to within six months after a firearm is retired; buyers must be in good standing and firearms are sold at salvage value based on age and condition. The bill adopts existing federal definitions for "Federal law enforcement officer" and "firearm," and expressly excludes machineguns that were not lawfully possessed prior to the statutory ban in 18 U.S.C. §922(o). No new appropriation is specified; sales are at salvage value to recoup asset value.
Official title: To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 21, 2025 by Russell Fry · Last progress May 19, 2025