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The bill centralizes and standardizes firearm destruction—providing grants and public reporting to reduce government storage burdens and increase oversight—while creating new costs, limiting private-sector disposal options, and raising compliance and commercial-privacy risks for dealers.
State, local, and tribal governments can receive grants to pay licensed dealers to destroy firearms, reducing government storage costs and helping agencies dispose of surplus or seized guns.
Taxpayers and government agencies will have greater transparency because licensed dealers must report annually the counts and methods of firearms destroyed, improving public oversight of disposals.
State and local taxpayers may face higher costs because licensed dealers receiving government firearms must use specified covered destruction methods and disclose fees, which could be more expensive than current options.
Small businesses and taxpayers may lose local disposal options and face higher compliance costs because private individuals and unlicensed businesses are prohibited from destroying firearms for hire.
Licensed firearm dealers face new certification deadlines and potential revocation authority, creating compliance risk that could reduce available destruction capacity if dealers fail to certify.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal "firearm destroyer" license, sets required destruction methods and reporting, and funds ATF grants to pay licensed dealers to destroy firearms.
Introduced June 12, 2025 by Gabe Amo · Last progress June 12, 2025
Creates a new federal license category for businesses that destroy firearms and sets rules for how destruction must be done, who must be licensed, and what records must be reported. Licensed firearm dealers who act as firearm-destruction businesses must certify secure storage, use specified destruction methods for government-supplied guns unless the parties agree otherwise, file annual reports with the ATF, and publicly disclose fees charged to government entities. The bill also directs the ATF to publish individual and aggregated destruction reports and establishes a grant program to pay licensed dealers to destroy firearms using approved methods, with authorizations for appropriations but no specific dollar amounts.