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The bill tightens and clarifies federal firearm prohibitions and reporting—reducing the ability of people under pretrial release (including some service members) to obtain guns and funding NICS reporting improvements—while imposing new criminal exposure for some defendants, compliance and administrative burdens on dealers and governments, and modest federal costs.
People subject to pretrial release orders that ban firearms (including some service members under court-martial pretrial orders) will be explicitly prohibited and more likely to have those prohibitions recorded in NICS, reducing their ability to buy guns and lowering the risk of firearm access during pending cases.
The bill clarifies and harmonizes federal law—defining “pretrial release order” and explicitly covering knowing sale/disposition and receipt of firearms—closing enforcement gaps and making it easier for courts, ATF, and NICS to apply and enforce prohibitions consistently across jurisdictions.
The bill provides up to $25 million per year (FY2026–2030) in grants to help State, Tribal, and local governments build or improve systems to report pretrial firearm prohibitions to NICS, lowering the direct implementation cost for many jurisdictions.
People released pretrial who are subject to firearm restrictions may face new federal criminal liability for possessing firearms under their release terms, increasing the risk of prosecution and severe legal consequences for defendants.
Inconsistent application or errors in reporting pretrial firearm prohibitions to NICS could wrongly block lawful purchasers or result in improper deprivation of firearm rights for affected individuals (including people with disabilities and Tribal residents).
States, Tribes, and localities must update laws, record systems, and NICS submissions and spend staff time to apply for and implement grants, creating administrative burdens and implementation costs for subnational governments.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Adds pretrial release orders that bar firearms as a federal disqualifying condition, updates related laws and reporting, and authorizes grants to report such orders to NICS.
Introduced June 26, 2025 by Daniel Goldman · Last progress June 26, 2025
Makes it illegal for a person subject to a court pretrial release order that prohibits purchasing, possessing, or receiving firearms to buy, receive, or possess a gun. Adds “pretrial release order” to federal definitions of disqualifying conditions, updates multiple firearms statutes and related federal reporting provisions to cover this new prohibition, and authorizes federal grants to States and Indian Tribes to report such pretrial firearm prohibitions to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), with $25 million authorized per year for FY2026–FY2030.