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The bill strengthens federal background-check reporting and entry of pretrial and other disqualifying firearm orders to reduce gun acquisitions by prohibited persons and improve public safety, while creating expanded pretrial and mental-health–related firearm restrictions, privacy and tribal-sovereignty concerns, and new administrative and compliance costs for governments and sellers.
People across communities and law enforcement: expands NICS coverage so pretrial firearm-prohibiting orders and additional §922(d) disqualifications are entered into federal background-check systems, making it harder for prohibited persons to legally acquire guns.
Victims, witnesses, and local communities: tighter limits on firearm possession while defendants are on restrictive pretrial orders reduce immediate risk of violence and help protect victims during proceedings.
Federal firearms licensees, courts, and state/tribal authorities: clarifies statutory definitions and reporting/relief obligations (including adding §922(d) rules) which reduces legal uncertainty and helps enforcement consistency.
People accused of crimes and pretrial defendants: broadening firearm prohibitions tied to pretrial release can impose prolonged de facto firearm disabilities before conviction, limiting rights without a conviction.
People with mental-health histories or civil-commitments: adding §922(d) categories to automatic federal reporting and prohibitions expands firearm disqualifications that may occur without individualized or adversarial review.
Individuals whose records include sensitive mental-health information: increased transmission and storage of §922(d)-related records in federal systems raises privacy risks and potential misuse of health data.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Bars firearm purchases by people under pretrial release orders that prohibit firearms, expands background-check/reporting rules to include those orders, and funds grants to report them to NICS.
Official title: Ensure that the background check system used for firearms purchases denies a firearm to a person prohibited from possessing a firearm by a lawful court order governing the pretrial release of the person.
Introduced June 26, 2025 by Cory Anthony Booker · Last progress June 26, 2025
Prohibits a person who is subject to a pretrial release order that bars purchasing, possessing, or receiving firearms from obtaining firearms. It expands federal firearms-disqualification rules and related background-check and reporting law references to cover these pretrial prohibitions and clarifies timing for court-martial/pretrial matters. The bill also creates a grant program authorizing $25 million per year (FY2026–FY2030) for States and Indian Tribes to report qualifying pretrial orders to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).