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The bill increases access to and incentives for secure firearm storage and centralizes safety guidance—likely improving household safety—while imposing taxpayer costs, compliance burdens, limited effectiveness from voluntary measures, and some rights-related concerns.
Households with firearms (parents, families, homeowners) gain much greater access to free or subsidized secure storage devices through federal grants and a retail tax credit, lowering barriers to safer storage and reducing accidental shootings and unauthorized access.
All firearm purchasers and the public get centralized, government-published safe-storage guidance (website, annual review) plus a required safety notice/link at point of purchase, making reliable information more accessible and keeping recommendations current.
Clarifying the statute to specify covered firearms (handguns, rifles, shotguns) with a uniform 180-day effective date reduces legal ambiguity and gives sellers and buyers predictable time to comply.
Taxpayers face direct fiscal costs: $10 million per year in grants plus lost federal revenue from the tax credit and additional DOJ administrative costs to publish and maintain guidance and oversee compliance.
Because guidance and the purchase-point safety message are nonbinding, many firearm owners may ignore them, limiting the law's ability to substantially reduce accidental shootings and unauthorized access.
Manufacturers, importers, retailers, and some gun owners may incur compliance costs (labeling, notices, product changes) and face new administrative burdens for enforcement, reporting, or grant application requirements.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Creates voluntary AG safe-storage guidance; requires 'SAFE STORAGE SAVES LIVES' labels on many firearms (from 2027); funds grants to buy locks and provides a temporary tax credit for storage-device sales.
Official title: To make unlawful the sale of any firearm by a licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer without a written notice promoting safe storage and a safe storage device, to create and disseminate best practices regarding safe firearm storage, to create a grant program for the distribution of safe storage devices, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for a credit against tax for sales at retail of safe firearm storage devices, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by André Carson · Last progress July 17, 2025
Requires the Attorney General to publish voluntary safe-firearm-storage best practices, mandates warning labels on most manufactured or imported firearms starting January 1, 2027, expands statutory wording in a related safe-storage sales provision, creates a grant program for states and tribes to buy and distribute safe-storage devices, and establishes a 10% nonrefundable tax credit for the first retail sale of qualifying safe-storage devices (capped per device and ending after 2032). It also includes timelines for publication, reporting requirements for grantees and Treasury, authorized grant funding, and a severability clause.