Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Voter Empowerment Act of 2024 Voter Registration Efficiency Act Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2024 Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2024 Democracy Restoration Act of 2024 Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2024 Voter Registration Modernization Act of 2024
Description: To modernize voter registration, promote access to voting for individuals with disabilities, protect the ability of individuals to exercise the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, Science, Space, and Technology, Education and the Workforce, 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: September 20, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Federal Firearm Licensee Act
Description: A bill to modernize the business of selling firearms.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 11, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives relating to "Definition of 'Engaged in the Business' as a Dealer in Firearms".
Description: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives relating to "Definition of 'Engaged in the Business' as a Dealer in Firearms".
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 15, 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: Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act
Description: A bill to prohibit payment card networks and covered entities from requiring the use of or assigning merchant category codes that distinguish a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or sporting goods retailer, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Last Action Date: April 8, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act of 2024
Description: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit unauthorized private paramilitary activity, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: January 16, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Identify Gun Stores Act
Description: To prohibit States from prohibiting or otherwise deterring the usage of any merchant category code established by the International Organization for Standardization, including codes that identify firearm merchants and ammunition merchants.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Last Action Date: February 14, 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: Protecting Gun Owners’ Privacy Act of 2023
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to enhance the privacy of legal gun owners, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: October 25, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Stopping the Fraudulent Sales of Firearms Act
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to make fraudulent dealings in firearms and ammunition unlawful, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: September 13, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Ghost Guns and Untraceable Firearms Act of 2023
Description: A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 27, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Ghost Guns and Untraceable Firearms Act of 2023
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 27, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 660) to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
Description: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 660) to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Ms. DeLauro. Petition No: 118-7. (Discharge petition text with signatures.)
Last Action Date: September 12, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Ghost Guns and Untraceable Firearms Act of 2023
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 17, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act of 2023
Description: To repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and provide for the discoverability and admissibility of gun trace information in civil proceedings.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 15, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act of 2023
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to expand to all firearms the requirement that Federal firearms licensees report sales of 2 or more handguns to the same unlicensed person within 5 consecutive business days.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 16, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Shall Not Be Infringed Act of 2023
Description: To repeal each gun control measure enacted by the 117th Congress, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Last Action Date: May 30, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Gun Owner Registration Information Protection Act
Description: To prohibit Federal funding of State firearm ownership databases, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 18, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Gun Owner Registration Information Protection Act
Description: A bill to prohibit Federal funding of State firearm ownership databases, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Last Action Date: May 18, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2023
Description: To require criminal background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at gun shows.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 5, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Protecting the Second Amendment in Financial Services Act
Description: To prohibit the use of a merchant category code that separately identifies firearms merchants or ammunition merchants, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Last Action Date: April 28, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act
Description: To repeal certain impediments to the administration of the firearms laws.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 1, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Safe Guns, Safe Kids Act
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 21, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: AIM Act of 2023 ATF Improvement and Modernization Act of 2023
Description: A bill to remove obstacles to the ability of law enforcement officers to enforce gun safety laws, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: January 26, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
Description: 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: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 573.
Last Action Date: September 16, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2023
Description: To require a background check for every firearm sale.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 1, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Ethan's Law
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: January 31, 2023
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Identifying Mass Shooters Act
Description: To direct the National Institute of Justice to collect, study, and analyze online content created by mass shooters in an effort to early identify potential mass shooters.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: December 6, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: AIM Act ATF Improvement and Modernization Act of 2022
Description: To remove obstacles to the ability of law enforcement officers to enforce gun safety laws, 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: AIM Act of 2022 ATF Improvement and Modernization Act of 2022
Description: A bill to remove obstacles to the ability of law enforcement officers to enforce gun safety laws, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 21, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Protecting Our Second Amendment Data Act
Description: To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require certifications related to the intentional, accidental, or otherwise knowing disclosure of personally identifiable information of persons involved in transactions related to possession of firearms, 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: Expressing support for the designation of June 21, 2022, as National ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Day to promote children's health and safe storage of guns in the home.
Description: Expressing support for the designation of June 21, 2022, as National ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Day to promote children's health and safe storage of guns in the home.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Last Action Date: June 21, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act
Description: To prevent the illegal sale of firearms, 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: Protect Children Through Safe Gun Ownership Act
Description: 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.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Federal Firearm Licensee Act
Description: To modernize the business of selling firearms.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act
Description: 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.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: April 22, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2021
Description: 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.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: November 1, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2021
Description: 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.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 25, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2021
Description: A bill to reform Federal firearms laws, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1985)
Last Action Date: April 15, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Gun Owner Privacy Act
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to protect the rights of citizens under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: April 28, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Background Check Completion Act of 2021
Description: A bill to prohibit firearms dealers from selling a firearm prior to the completion of a background check.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 4, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Ethan's Law
Description: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: March 22, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act
Description: To require the safe storage of firearms and ammunition, and to require the investigation of reports of improper storage of firearms or ammunition.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: March 1, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021
Description: To require a background check for every firearm sale.
Last Action: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 390.
Last Action Date: May 25, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
Description: 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: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Last Action Date: April 12, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2021
Description: To require face-to-face purchases of ammunition, to require licensing of ammunition dealers, and to require reporting regarding bulk purchases of ammunition.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: April 28, 2021
Session: 116th Congress
Title: National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020
Description: Modifies requirements governing the national instant criminal background check system (NICS). Specifically, it allows the NICS to retain records related to a firearms-related background check for as long as necessary to make a final determination of firearms eligibility. Additionally, it requires the NICS to query an additional database—the National Data Exchange—as part of a firearm-related background check.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 21, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020
Description: Requires the National Tracing Center within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to establish and maintain an electronic, searchable database of records related to certain firearms transactions.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 27, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020
Description: Requires the National Tracing Center within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to establish and maintain an electronic, searchable database of records related to certain firearms transactions.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 27, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Gun Trafficker Detection Act
Description: To require lost or stolen firearms to be reported to law enforcement authorities within 48 hours, and for other purposes.
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: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: January 28, 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: End Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act of 2019
Description: To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: July 30, 2019