Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the sale or other disposition of a firearm to, and the possession, shipment, transportation, or receipt of a firearm by, certain classes of high-risk individuals.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Preventing Pretrial Gun Purchases Act
Description: To 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.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 26, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Preventing Pretrial Gun Purchases Act
Description: A bill to 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.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 20, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2024
Description: A bill to reform Federal firearms laws, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: April 16, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Firearm Due Process Protection Act
Description: To enforce the requirement that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System make a final disposition of requests to correct its records within 60 days, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: April 5, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2023
Description: To end the epidemic of gun violence and build safer communities by strengthening Federal firearms laws and supporting gun violence research, intervention, and prevention initiatives.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Last Action Date: December 8, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Lori Jackson-Nicolette Elias Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms and to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a grant program relating to the removal of firearms from adjudicated domestic violence offenders, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: November 14, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Lori Jackson-Nicolette Elias Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Description: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: November 14, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Fair Legal Access Grants Act
Description: To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to award grants for providing legal resources for petitioners seeking extreme risk protection orders, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 25, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Fair Legal Access Grants Act
Description: A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to award grants for providing legal resources for petitioners seeking extreme risk protection orders, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 10, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2023
Description: To authorize the issuance of extreme risk protection orders.
Last Action: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mrs. McBath. Petition No: 118-13.
Last Action Date: June 26, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Protecting Gun Rights and Due Process Act
Description: To provide adequate protections for gun owners, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
Last Action Date: March 10, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: ATF Transparency Act
Description: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to establish an administrative relief process for individuals whose applications for transfer and registration of a firearm were denied, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Last Action Date: March 22, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: ATF Transparency Act
Description: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to establish an administrative relief process for individuals whose applications for transfer and registration of a firearm were denied, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 2, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: To direct the Attorney General to conduct a study on the efficacy of extreme risk protection orders on reducing gun violence, and for other purposes.
Description: To direct the Attorney General to conduct a study on the efficacy of extreme risk protection orders on reducing gun violence, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act of 2023
Description: To support State, Tribal, and local efforts to remove access to firearms from individuals who are a danger to themselves or others pursuant to court orders for this purpose.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 2, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act of 2023
Description: A bill to support State, Tribal, and local efforts to remove access to firearms from individuals who are a danger to themselves or others pursuant to court orders for this purpose.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S235)
Last Action Date: February 2, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: ATF Accountability Act of 2023
Description: To provide procedures for appealing certain Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives rulings or determinations, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: January 25, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Preventing Unjust Red Flag Laws Act of 2023
Description: To prohibit funding for the implementation and enforcement of Federal red flag orders.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: January 11, 2023
Session: 117th Congress
Title: To end the epidemic of gun violence and build safer communities by strengthening Federal firearms laws and supporting gun violence research, intervention, and prevention initiatives.
Description: To end the epidemic of gun violence and build safer communities by strengthening Federal firearms laws and supporting gun violence research, intervention, and prevention initiatives.
Last Action: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Last Action Date: December 20, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: To direct the Attorney General to conduct a study on the efficacy of extreme risk protection orders on reducing gun violence, and for other purposes.
Description: To direct the Attorney General to conduct a study on the efficacy of extreme risk protection orders on reducing gun violence, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Preventing Pretrial Gun Purchases Act
Description: A bill to 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.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 5, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Preventing Unjust Red Flag Laws Act of 2021
Description: Prohibits the use of federal funds to implement or enforce red flag laws. The term red flag laws means a risk-based, temporary, and preemptive protective order that authorizes the removal of firearms without due process.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Preventing Pretrial Gun Purchases Act
Description: To ensure that the background check system used for firearms purchasers denies a firearm to a person prohibited from possessing guns by a lawful court order governing the pretrial release of the person.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Lori Jackson-Nicolette Elias Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Description: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a grant program relating to the removal of firearms from adjudicated domestic violence offenders, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 22, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2021
Description: To support State, Tribal, and local efforts to remove access to firearms from individuals who are a danger to themselves or others pursuant to court orders for this purpose.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2022
Description: To authorize the issuance of extreme risk protection orders.
Last Action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 9, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: State Access to Firearms Evading Revocation Act
Description: To prohibit the transfer of a firearm to a person whose State license to purchase, own, or possess a firearm has been revoked, or a person who has been ordered by a State court to surrender all firearms.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: October 19, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Description: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 16, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: May 18, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2021
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code to prohibit persons convicted of misdemeanor crimes against dating partners and persons subject to protection orders from possessing firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: May 18, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Ensuring Second Amendment Freedoms are Executed Timely Act
Description: To prevent unnecessary delay in firearms transfers from licensed firearms dealers to unlicensed persons.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: May 18, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to strengthen the background check procedures to be followed before a Federal firearms licensee may transfer a firearm to a person who is not such a licensee.
Last Action: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 391.
Last Action Date: May 25, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: No Guns for Abusers Act of 2021
Description: To authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to implement statutes, rules, policies, or procedures to authorize courts to issue relinquishment orders with respect to individuals charged with or convicted of a crime of domestic violence, or subject to a domestic violence protective order, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: April 28, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2021
Description: A bill to provide family members of an individual who they fear is a danger to himself, herself, or others, or law enforcement, with new tools to prevent gun violence.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 8, 2021
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
Description: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from transmitting certain information to the Department of Justice for use by the national instant criminal background check system.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Last Action Date: November 10, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Description: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: August 5, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: August 4, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2020
Description: A bill to reform Federal firearms laws, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 22, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Dismantle Mass Incarceration For Public Health Act of 2020
Description: To require States and units of local government to certify a commitment to release certain individuals from jails and prisons, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 18, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Mandatory Minimum Reform Act of 2020
Description: To eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for all drug offenses.
Last Action: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Last Action Date: June 11, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Justice in Policing Act of 2020
Description: A bill to hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct in court, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 8, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Grand Jury Reform Act of 2020
Description: Conditions a state or local government's receipt of funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program on the state's compliance with certain requirements following an incident involving the use of deadly force by a local law enforcement officer that results in a person's death. Specifically, the governor must appoint a special prosecutor to present evidence before a judge to determine whether probable cause exists to criminally charge the law enforcement officer. The hearing must be open to the public.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 6, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020
Description: Imposes limitations on investigative powers provided under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), reauthorizes certain FISA programs, and makes related changes. Provisions include reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, FISA authority to obtain business records, but also repealing the power to use such authority to obtain records on an ongoing basis; excluding certain data, such as cell phone location, from FISA authority to access business records; establishing that nonpublic information collected under FISA authority may not be retained for more than three years unless the information includes foreign intelligence information; disallowing the use of FISA-collected business records for criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings except in certain instances, such as cases involving a specific cybersecurity threat from a foreign country; requiring a government entity to notify a targeted person that the entity intends to use in court business records collected under FISA; excluding cell site location and global positioning system information from FISA authority for using a pen register or trap and trace device to collect evidence; reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, the power to treat individual terrorists as foreign agents; expanding the powers of FISA court amicus curiae (outside parties appointed to assist in a case), such as by authorizing the amicus to refer a FISA court decision to the FISA Court of Review; and repealing the government's authority to use National Security Letters to obtain financial or communications records without a court order.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: January 28, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020
Description: Makes various changes to the federal framework governing the sale, transfer, and possession of firearms and ammunition. Among other things, the bill does the following: generally requires individuals to obtain a license to purchase, acquire, or possess a firearm or ammunition; raises the minimum age—from 18 years to 21 years—to purchase firearms and ammunition; establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties; requires law enforcement agencies to be notified following a firearms-related background check that results in a denial; creates a statutory process for a family or household member to petition a court for an extreme risk protection order to remove firearms from an individual who poses a risk of committing violence; restricts the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices; restricts the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, or receipt of ghost guns (i.e., guns without serial numbers); makes trafficking in firearms a stand-alone criminal offense; requires federally licensed gun dealers to submit and annually certify compliance with a security plan to detect and deter firearm theft; removes limitations on the civil liability of gun manufacturers; allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for firearms and firearm components; establishes a community violence intervention grant program; and promotes research on firearms safety and gun violence prevention.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: March 10, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Safeguarding Americans' Private Records Act of 2020
Description: Imposes limitations on investigative powers provided under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), reauthorizes certain FISA programs, and makes related changes. Provisions include reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, FISA authority to obtain business records, but also repealing the power to use such authority to obtain records on an ongoing basis; excluding certain data, such as cell phone location, from FISA authority to access business records; establishing that nonpublic information collected under FISA authority may not be retained for more than three years unless the information includes foreign intelligence information; disallowing the use of FISA-collected business records for criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings except in certain instances, such as cases involving a specific cybersecurity threat from a foreign country; requiring a government entity to notify a targeted person that the entity intends to use in court business records collected under FISA; excluding cell site location and global positioning system information from FISA authority for using a pen register or trap and trace device to collect evidence; reauthorizing to December 15, 2023, the power to treat individual terrorists as foreign agents; expanding the powers of FISA court amicus curiae (outside parties appointed to assist in a case), such as by authorizing the amicus to refer a FISA court decision to the FISA Court of Review; and repealing the government's authority to use National Security Letters to obtain financial or communications records without a court order.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability.
Last Action Date: January 30, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020
Description: To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism.
Last Action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: September 22, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020
Description: A bill to authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S195-197)
Last Action Date: January 14, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019
Description: A bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6569)
Last Action Date: November 13, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: DUE PROCESS Act of 2019 Deterring Undue Enforcement by Protecting Rights Of Citizens from Excessive Searches and Seizures Act of 2019
Description: DUE PROCESS Act of 2019 Deterring Undue Enforcement by Protecting Rights Of Citizens from Excessive Searches and Seizures Act of 2019
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: June 26, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019
Description: Authorizes grants for states to implement extreme risk protection order laws (also known as red flag laws). An extreme risk protection order law permits a state court to issue an order that prohibits an individual from purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm. Additionally, persons subject to extreme risk protection orders constitute a new category of prohibited persons (i.e., persons barred from receiving, possessing, shipping, or transporting a firearm or ammunition).
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: March 4, 2019