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The bill prioritizes national uniformity and legal clarity by blocking capacity-based magazine restrictions at state, local, and federal levels, trading away local control and potentially increasing public-safety risks and availability of high-capacity magazines.
State and local governments are barred from enforcing magazine-capacity bans and federal officers/employees cannot create or enforce new capacity-based federal magazine restrictions, producing uniform rules nationwide and preventing a patchwork of local restrictions.
Clarifies the legal definition of 'firearm magazine capacity,' reducing ambiguity that leads to inconsistent enforcement and litigation.
People in jurisdictions that adopted capacity limits (including urban communities), plus victims and first responders, face increased public-safety risk because limits on magazine capacity that can reduce casualties are prohibited.
Preemption of state and local laws reduces local control over public-safety policy, can generate legal conflicts, and limits communities' ability to tailor firearm rules to local conditions.
Clarifying the definition of magazine capacity could enable resale or wider circulation of higher-capacity magazines by removing legal ambiguity, potentially expanding availability.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits federal, state, and local limits or penalties on firearm magazines based on capacity and defines magazine capacity; effective 30+ days after enactment.
Official title: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit capacity-based restrictions on firearm magazines, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by Tony Wied · Last progress July 17, 2025
Prohibits federal officers and employees and state or local governments from adopting, enforcing, or penalizing possession or sale of firearm magazines based on the number of rounds they can hold. The bill defines “firearm magazine capacity” and makes the new rule apply to conduct occurring 30 or more days after enactment. In short, capacity-based limits on magazines would be unenforceable at all levels of government and federal officials would be barred from adopting such regulations.