Sponsors (11)
The bill strengthens physical security requirements and enforcement tools to reduce firearms theft and improve public safety, but it shifts costs, regulatory burdens, surveillance risks, and stiffer license penalties onto small firearms businesses.
Licensed importers, manufacturers, and dealers: reduce theft and diversion risk by requiring secured inventory when premises are closed (hardened-rod locks or locked safes/vaults).
Small firearms businesses and law enforcement: improve evidence preservation and make records harder to remove or destroy by requiring paper inventory/transaction records be kept on‑premises in locked fireproof safes/vaults within 90 days.
Licensed importers, manufacturers, and dealers and regulators: increase ability to respond to emerging theft threats because the Attorney General can require additional security measures (alarms, cameras, site hardening, electronic-records protections).
Small firearms businesses: face meaningful upfront and ongoing compliance costs to purchase hardened locks, safes, cameras, vault upgrades, or other required security technology.
Small firearms businesses and their employees: face risk of license suspension after a second violation and revocation after a third, threatening livelihoods and local firearm supply.
Business owners, employees, and customers: potential privacy and surveillance concerns if the Attorney General requires cameras or broad electronic-records controls that collect business or employee data.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires FFLs to keep inventory on-site, secure firearms when closed (hardened-steel rod/lock or locked safe/cabinet/vault), store paper records on-site, and creates AG regulation authority plus civil penalties and license suspension/revocation.
Official title: Amend title 18, United States Code, to require federally licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, and dealers to meet certain requirements with respect to securing their firearms inventory, business records, and business premises.
Introduced February 6, 2025 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress February 6, 2025
Requires federally licensed firearm importers, manufacturers, and dealers to keep all inventory on licensed premises and to secure each firearm when the business is closed either with a specified hardened-steel rod/lock anchored against removal or in locked fireproof safes/cabinets/vaults. Paper records must be stored on-site in locked fireproof safes or vaults. The Attorney General may issue further security rules and may enforce the law with civil penalties, mandatory suspensions, and mandatory revocations for repeat violations.