Sponsors (11)
The bill creates a single, nationwide rule protecting possession and circulation of higher-capacity magazines and reducing regulatory ambiguity, at the cost of removing local authority and likely increasing public-safety risks in communities that adopted capacity limits.
Gun owners, retailers, and government officials: the bill bars state and local magazine-capacity bans and prevents federal officers/employees from creating or enforcing new capacity-based restrictions, producing a uniform national rule that avoids a patchwork of local laws.
State and local governments, courts, and retailers: the bill clarifies the legal definition of 'firearm magazine capacity,' reducing ambiguity in enforcement and litigation and making compliance and regulation more predictable.
Residents in jurisdictions that adopted capacity limits, law enforcement, and first responders: the prohibition on capacity-based restrictions could increase public-safety risks and the potential for higher casualties in mass-shooting events.
Local governments and communities: federal preemption removes local control to tailor firearm-safety policy to local conditions, can generate legal conflicts with state/local priorities, and — combined with a clarified capacity definition — may expand resale and availability of higher-capacity magazines.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars federal, state, and local capacity-based limits on firearm magazines and defines "firearm magazine capacity."
Prohibits federal officers and employees, and state and local governments, from creating, enforcing, or keeping laws or regulations that limit or ban firearm magazines based on how many rounds they hold. It also adds a federal definition of “firearm magazine capacity” and makes the new rules effective 30 or more days after the law is enacted.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by Tony Wied · Last progress July 17, 2025