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Prohibits the Department of Defense and government-owned plants from selling military-grade assault weapons and specified “covered ammunition” into the commercial marketplace, and bars the DoD from buying from dealers or manufacturers who commercially sell such weapons or ammo. Establishes new licensing, recordkeeping, training, security, transaction‑limit, trace‑threshold, and financial‑tie requirements for dealers and manufacturers that sell firearms or ammunition commercially, creates reporting obligations for government-owned plants and DoD procurement, and directs the Attorney General to issue implementing regulations and provide NICS access for licensed ammunition dealers.
The bill tightens controls, transparency, and background-check access for ammunition and certain government-origin weapons to reduce diversion and illegal access, while creating new compliance costs, procurement constraints, and limits that will affect small businesses, lawful high-volume purchasers, and some industry transactions.
Law enforcement and the public: requiring dealers and ammunition sellers to hold licenses and meet recordkeeping, training, and security standards reduces the flow of crime guns and ammunition into illegal markets.
Licensed ammunition dealers and the public: mandating NICS access for licensed ammunition sellers enables background checks on ammunition purchases (within 180 days), which can prevent prohibited persons from acquiring ammunition.
Taxpayers and national security stakeholders: stopping DoD and government-owned plants from selling military-grade assault weapons and certain ammunition into the commercial market reduces the risk of diversion of military-grade materiel to criminals or unauthorized users.
Small firearms and ammunition businesses and taxpayers: new licensing, electronic inventory, training, and security requirements impose compliance costs that will disproportionately burden small dealers and retailers.
Taxpayers and defense suppliers: limiting DoD procurement to vendors that meet these commercial standards may shrink the supplier pool, complicate supply chains, and raise procurement costs for defense purchases.
Sports shooters, collectors, some businesses, and dealers: per-buyer ammunition caps (500 rounds for covered ammunition; 1,000 for others) restrict lawful high-volume purchasers and could inconvenience recreational shooters, competitive shooters, and certain commercial users.
Introduced March 5, 2026 by Elizabeth Warren · Last progress March 5, 2026