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The bill strengthens public safety by expanding and funding reporting of pretrial and §922(d)-based firearm prohibitions into NICS, but does so at the cost of broader pre-conviction and mental-health–related firearms restrictions, increased privacy and tribal-sovereignty concerns, and new administrative and compliance burdens.
General public, victims, witnesses, and law enforcement are less likely to face immediate gun-related violence because pretrial firearm prohibitions and expanded NICS reporting make it harder for prohibited people to lawfully acquire firearms.
States and Tribes receive dedicated federal funding ($25M/year, FY2026–2030) to build or upgrade systems to report disqualifying pretrial orders to NICS, lowering local budget pressure and enabling implementation.
Federal firearms licensees and courts get clearer statutory language and reporting/waiver rules (including explicit coverage of §922(d)), reducing legal uncertainty for sellers and regulators.
People subject to pretrial or §922(d)-based disqualifications can be effectively barred from firearm possession before conviction or individualized review, restricting rights of accused persons and some people with mental-health histories.
Expanding §922(d) coverage and adding mental-health or civil-commitment-related records to NICS increases the risk that sensitive clinical records are transmitted and stored in federal systems, raising privacy concerns.
Courts, state and local governments, and DoD will face added administrative and compliance costs to track, report, and implement expanded firearm prohibitions (including meeting DoD timing rules).
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal firearm prohibition for people under court-ordered pretrial release bans on firearms, requires/expands NICS reporting to include those orders, and funds reporting grants.
Introduced June 26, 2025 by Cory Anthony Booker · Last progress June 26, 2025
Adds a federal firearm disqualification for any person who is subject to a court-issued pretrial release order that forbids purchasing, possessing, or receiving firearms, and updates federal background-check and reporting laws so those orders can trigger NICS prohibitions. Establishes a federal grant program that pays states and Indian tribes to report such pretrial orders to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), and authorizes $25 million per year for FY2026–FY2030 to support reporting. The bill changes several federal statutes that govern firearm prohibitions, dealer obligations, and NICS reporting to include this new pretrial-release-based disqualification, clarifies timing rules for military (court-martial) pretrial orders, and makes technical cross-reference edits so state and federal reporting and enforcement can apply to these orders when they are reported to NICS.