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The bill protects gun-owner privacy by blocking federal compulsion to create comprehensive firearms registries and keeps lost-or-stolen tracking support, but reduces federal incentives and funding that could aid crime-prevention data systems and creates ambiguity that may shift costs to states and slow cross-jurisdictional cooperation.
Gun owners and privacy advocates: the bill prevents the federal government from using federal funds to force states or localities to build comprehensive registries of lawfully owned firearms, protecting ownership records from federal compilation.
Law enforcement and communities: the bill preserves federal support for tracking lost-or-stolen firearms, allowing continued access to databases of reported stolen or lost guns to aid recovery and crime prevention.
Law enforcement and public-safety researchers: the bill limits federal incentives and assistance that could help states create registries useful for crime prevention or public-safety research, potentially reducing data available for investigations and analysis.
State governments and taxpayers: by restricting certain federal grant funding for state systems that some officials view as helpful for background checks or tracking ownership trends, the bill may shift development and operating costs to state budgets or prevent such systems from being created.
State, local, and federal agencies: the bill could create legal ambiguity about what kinds of partial data-sharing or cooperative projects are permissible, increasing the risk of disputes or slowing implementation of cross-jurisdictional tools.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Bars federal agencies from funding or supporting creation or maintenance of state/local databases that list lawfully owned firearms or firearm owners, except for lost/stolen reporting.
Introduced February 25, 2026 by Paul Gosar · Last progress February 25, 2026
Prohibits federal agencies from funding, supporting, or helping create or maintain any State or local database that lists lawfully owned firearms or the individuals who lawfully own them. The ban covers federal grants, contracts, technical assistance, and other support, but does not apply to state or local databases that record firearms or owners who have reported their firearms lost or stolen. "State" is defined to include all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and other U.S. territories or possessions.