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Creates licensing, destruction-method, reporting, and fee-disclosure requirements for private businesses that destroy firearms and establishes an ATF grant program.
Official title: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a person from engaging in the business of destroying firearms unless such person has received a license to do so from the Attorney General, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 12, 2025 by Gabe Amo · Last progress June 12, 2025
The bill aims to reduce circulation of decommissioned firearm parts and increase transparency while providing federal support for destruction costs, but it shifts expenses to taxpayers and imposes compliance and privacy burdens on small dealers and some government agencies.
Local, State, Tribal governments and communities will have fewer intact firearm parts circulating because licensed dealers contracted by government entities must fully destroy firearms using covered methods.
Local, State, and Tribal governments can receive federal grants to pay licensed dealers to destroy firearms, lowering local disposal costs and reducing direct budget pressure on those governments.
Taxpayers and the public gain greater transparency because licensed destroyers must file annual destruction reports and the ATF must publish individual reports and aggregated data about destruction activity.
Taxpayers may face added fiscal costs because grants/subsidies are authorized and the ATF will incur rulemaking and publication expenses.
Small licensed dealers that choose to destroy firearms will face new compliance costs (facility security, recordkeeping, reporting) that could be burdensome for small businesses.
Some government agencies may encounter delays or increased costs if they must ensure firearms are destroyed by covered methods unless they negotiate alternative arrangements with dealers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a new federal licensing and regulatory regime for businesses that destroy firearms, defining "firearm destroyers" and required methods that render weapons irreparable. Licensed dealers who destroy firearms must secure premises, follow required destruction methods for government-supplied guns, file annual destruction reports with ATF (which will publish the data), disclose fees charged to government entities, and are eligible for ATF-administered grants to cover compliance costs.