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The bill creates a single national rule allowing possession and transfer of high-capacity magazines—reducing legal uncertainty for gun owners and sellers—while removing state and local capacity limits, which raises public-safety risks and enforcement and litigation burdens for local authorities.
Gun owners (middle-class families, firearm owners) can possess and transfer magazines of any capacity nationwide without state, local, or federal capacity-based restrictions.
Firearm owners and sellers face a single national rule that preempts a patchwork of local magazine-capacity laws, reducing legal uncertainty for owners and small businesses that sell firearms and accessories.
Federal officers and employees are barred from enforcing new capacity-based restrictions, reducing the risk of federal enforcement actions related to magazine capacity.
Residents of cities and other local communities (including children and youth) may face greater public-safety risks because states and localities lose the ability to restrict high-capacity magazines, likely increasing availability and the potential lethality of shootings.
Local law enforcement and prosecutors face legal conflicts and enforcement burdens because they can no longer enforce preexisting capacity limits, complicating policing and prosecutions at the state and local level.
States, municipalities, and taxpayers may incur litigation and defense costs due to preemption and anticipated legal challenges to local ordinances that are invalidated, shifting expenses to public budgets.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Preempts and prohibits federal, state, and local limits on firearm magazine capacity, defines magazine capacity, and applies 30 days after enactment.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by Tony Wied · Last progress July 17, 2025
Prohibits federal, state, and local limits on firearm magazines based on how many rounds they hold, and stops government officers from making or enforcing rules that restrict magazine capacity. It also defines “firearm magazine, capacity” as the device that stores and feeds ammunition and the number of rounds it can hold, and becomes enforceable 30 days after the law is signed.