Federal Proposed Gun Bills
The following is a list of Federal proposed bills concerning guns. It’s long!
These bills have all of 2023 and 2024 in which to be acted on. After that they die.
The brief descriptions come directly from the bills and give you a hint about the purpose of the bill although they can also be misleading. There are too many for SCOPE to review each one so if a bill catches-your-eye, you can find out more about it at https://legiscan.com. Please send any thoughts or comments on a specific bill to SCOPE; we’d like to know our members’ thinking and it would be a great help.
Bills starting HB are House bills and bills starting SB are Senate bills. Some bills have both an HR and an SB which means companion bills have been introduced in both houses. At the end are two starting HR which are House Resolutions that do not become laws.
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HB3122 To require criminal background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at gun shows.
HB4992 HB4679 SB2652 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes.
HB3212 To repeal each gun control measure enacted by the 117th Congress, and for other purposes.
SB598 A bill to repeal certain impediments to the administration of the firearms laws.
HB4074 SB1819 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the distribution of 3D printer plans for the printing of firearms, and for other purposes.
HB1302 To repeal certain impediments to the administration of the firearms laws.
HB4283 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase certain taxes related to firearms, and for other purposes.
HB1361 To authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to States, units of local government, and gun dealers to conduct gun buyback programs, and for other purposes.
HB5010 To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in coordination with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to submit to the Congress an annual report on the effects of gun violence on public health.
HB3687 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require adequate supervision before a juvenile can possess a firearm, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
HB4780 SB2565 A bill to remove linguistic barriers to participation in Gun Violence Prevention Strategies.
HB698 SB25 A bill to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
HB4201 To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a gun lock to be provided to every firearm purchaser.
HB1478 To modernize the business of selling firearms.
HB3962 SB1893 A bill to establish a Federal Advisory Council to Support Victims of Gun Violence.
HB1699 SB951 A bill to establish the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and for other purposes.
HB3683 SB1826 A bill to ensure greater accountability by licensed firearms dealers.
HB2753 To require federally licensed firearms manufacturers, importers, and dealers and their employees to undergo training to be eligible to sell a firearm, to require a notice to be posted at retail firearms locations that describes the signs of unlawful firearms purchases, to require such licensees to maintain physical security elements to prevent theft and a minimum level of business liability insurance, and for other purposes.
HB660 SB173 A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
HB48 To provide for the hiring of 200 additional Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and investigators to enforce gun laws.
HB1145 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
HB385 To ban the imposition of any State or local liability insurance, tax, or user fee requirement for firearm or ammunition ownership or commerce.
HB3993 To provide a private right of action against the maker of any component of a ghost gun, and any person who facilitated a sale of the ghost gun, for injury or death resulting from the use of the ghost gun.
HB2390 SB1026 A bill to authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control HB2390 and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.
HB3931 To amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the definition of school zone, to prohibit the transfer and possession of ghost guns, and for other purposes.
HB816 SB246 A bill to 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.
SB361 A bill to amend the National Firearms Act to provide an exception for stabilizing braces, and for other purposes.
HB4158 SB1825 A bill to require the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to issue an advisory about how homegrown violent extremists and other perpetrators of domestic terrorism procure firearms and firearm accessories, and for other purposes.
HB1830 To prohibit a Federal firearms licensee from transferring a long gun to a person who the licensee knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not reside in (or if the person is a corporation or other business entity, does not maintain a place of business in) the State in which the licensee's place of business is located.
HB2477 To amend the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 to permit qualified law enforcement officers, qualified retired law enforcement officers, and persons not prohibited by State law from carrying a concealed firearm to carry a firearm, and to discharge a firearm in defense of self or others, in a school zone.
SB1285 A bill to direct the National Center for Education Statistics to produce an annual report on indicators of school crime and safety, and for other purposes.
HB3155 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the purchase of a semiautomatic assault weapon by, and the sale of such a weapon to, individuals under 25 years of age, and for other purposes.
HB2869 To require the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to publish an annual report on indicators of school crime and safety that includes data on school shootings, and for other purposes.
HB168 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition.
SB214 A bill to allow reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms.
HB4184 SB2048 A bill to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and provide for the discoverability and admissibility of gun trace information in civil proceedings
HB38 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a means by which nonresidents of a State whose residents may carry concealed firearms may also do so in the State.
HB1258 To provide adequate protections for gun owners, and for other purposes.
HB1566 To permit employees of the House of Representatives who are authorized to possess certain weapons in the District of Columbia to bring such weapons into House Office Buildings for secure storage, and for other purposes.
HB1271 To amend title 18, United States Code, to discontinue the collection by the Federal Government of firearm transaction records of discontinued firearms businesses, to require the destruction of such already collected records, and for other purposes.
HB730 SB203 A bill to amend section 923 of title 18, United States Code, to require an electronic, searchable database of the importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposition of firearms.
HB3492 SB1680 A bill to prohibit Federal funding of State firearm ownership databases, and for other purposes.
HB4436 SB1949 A bill to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from providing firearms and ammunition to its employees, and for other purposes.
HB974 SB118 A bill to remove obstacles to the ability of law enforcement officers to enforce gun safety laws, and for other purposes.
HB2392 To require a seven-day waiting period before the receipt of a firearm.
HB2897 SB2732 A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the sale or other disposition of any firearm or ammunition to any person who has been convicted of a violent misdemeanor, and for other purposes.
HB2418 To require lost or stolen firearms to be reported to law enforcement authorities within 48 hours, and for other purposes.
HB4966 To require the Attorney General to report certain revocation and remedial action data with respect to Federal firearm licenses and to require the Comptroller General of the United States to study the effectiveness of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in investigating and revoking the licenses.
HB962 To amend title 11 of the United States Code to include firearms in the types of property allowable under the alternative provision for exempting property from the estate.
SB252 A bill to direct the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules prohibiting the marketing of firearms to minors, and for other purposes.
SB14 A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the purchase of certain firearms by individuals under 21 years of age, and for other purposes.
SB840 A bill to protect the rights of the people of the United States under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
SB117 A bill to authorize a grant program for handgun licensing programs, and for other purposes.
SB428 A bill to amend title 41, United States Code, to prohibit the Federal Government from entering into contracts with an entity that discriminates against firearm or ammunition industries, and for other purposes.
HB569 To authorize for a grant program for handgun licensing programs, and for other purposes.
HB354 To amend title 18, United States Code, to improve the Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act and provisions relating to the carrying of concealed weapons by law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
HB151 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove short-barreled shotguns from the definition of firearms for purposes of the National Firearms Act, and for other purposes.
HB53 To amend title 41, United States Code, to prohibit the Federal Government from entering into contracts with an entity that discriminates against firearm or ammunition industries, and for other purposes.
SB1462 A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to improve the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 and provisions relating to the carrying of concealed weapons by law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
HB2909 SB1319 A bill to address the importation and proliferation of machinegun conversion devices
HB4330 To amend title 18, United States Code, to require serial numbers to be engraved on ammunition, and for other purposes.
HB715 To require a background check for every firearm sale.
HB3091 To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes
HR244 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that mandates imposed on manufacturers requiring inclusion of unproven and unreliable technology in firearms is costly and punitive, and the prohibition of firearms without such features is an infringement on the rights of citizens under the Second Amendment.
HR348 Declaring gun violence a public health crisis.