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The bill provides national uniformity and lower compliance costs—protecting consumer access and simplifying commerce—but does so by limiting state and local authority to require additional safety and forensic technologies, potentially weakening local safety measures and investigative tools.
Gun buyers and owners across states keep access to commonly sold handguns because state and local governments are blocked from requiring nonstandard handgun features.
Firearm manufacturers and sellers face fewer divergent local design mandates, lowering compliance costs and helping keep prices from rising for consumers.
Preserves national regulatory uniformity for interstate commerce, reducing regulatory complexity for small businesses and sellers that operate across state lines.
Local and state governments lose the ability to impose stricter safety-related design rules, reducing local tools to address community safety concerns and potentially increasing public risk.
Consumers and the public may forfeit safety benefits if jurisdictions are barred from requiring technologies like loaded-chamber indicators or magazine disconnects.
Restrictions on adopting forensic-tracing technology (e.g., imprinted casings) could hinder investigations and prosecutions of shootings.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Preempts state and local requirements that force handguns to include design features not required by federal law, banning mandates for load indicators, magazine blocks, microstamping, and related technologies.
Introduced July 23, 2025 by Darrell Issa · Last progress July 23, 2025
Bans federal, state, and local governments from requiring handguns sold or transported in interstate or foreign commerce to include certain design features, safety mechanisms, or performance standards that are not already required by federal law. Specifically bars mandates for devices or capabilities such as chamber/load indicators, mechanisms that prevent firing unless a magazine is fully seated, imprinting identifying marks on casings or projectiles (microstamping), technologies designed to perform or readily convertible to those functions, and the ability to accept such devices. The bill declares that state and local rules forcing these extra design requirements limit lawful handgun choices, raise costs, may create safety issues by altering intended function, violate the Second Amendment, and restrain interstate commerce, and it preempts any such local or state requirements that exceed existing federal statute.