Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act
Description: To prohibit the intimidation of election officials and election workers.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: September 25, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships among firearm violence, misogyny, and violence against women, and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history of violence against women from accessing a firearm.
Description: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships among firearm violence, misogyny, and violence against women, and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history of violence against women from accessing a firearm.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: October 11, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Stop Militarizing Our Streets Act of 2024
Description: A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to restrict the sale and procurement of certain weapons and ammunition by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Last Action Date: September 12, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Modern Firearm Safety Act
Description: To prohibit the imposition of requirements that handguns have certain features generally absent from firearms in common use, and to restore the civil and natural rights of Americans in States hostile to liberty, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: August 20, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Stop Militarizing Our Streets Act of 2024
Description: To amend title 10, United States Code, to restrict the sale and procurement of certain weapons and ammunition by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: August 2, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: GOSAFE Act Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to restrict the possession of certain firearms, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: June 3, 2024
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Stop Arming Cartels Act of 2024
Description: To prohibit the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of .50 caliber rifles, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: May 16, 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: Stop Arming Cartels Act of 2023
Description: A bill to prohibit the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of .50 caliber rifles, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S4680-4682)
Last Action Date: September 26, 2023
Session: 118th Congress
Title: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 698) to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
Description: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 698) to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mrs. McBath. Petition No: 118-2. (Discharge petition text with signatures)
Last Action Date: June 13, 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: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1808) to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
Description: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1808) to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Last Action Date: July 29, 2022
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Assault Weapons Ban of 2021
Description: A bill to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: March 11, 2021
Session: 117th Congress
Title: Assault Weapons Ban of 2022
Description: To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: August 1, 2022
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act of 2020
Description: To amend title 18, United States Code, to impose prohibitions relating to machines designed for the manufacturing of frames or receivers for firearms.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: July 1, 2020
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Safe Homefront Act
Description: To require the Secretary of Defense make available certain records relevant to a determination of whether a member of the Armed Forces is disqualified from possessing or receiving a firearm, and for other purposes.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: September 25, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: PLEA Act Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act
Description: To protect the Nation's law enforcement officers by regulating the sale of the Five-seveN pistol and its variants, testing handguns for capability to penetrate body armor, and regulating the manufacture, importation, sale, or purchase of such handguns by civilians.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: June 26, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Age 21 Act
Description: Raises the minimum age to purchase a large capacity ammunition feeding device or semiautomatic assault weapon from 18 to 21 years of age.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: May 9, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: A resolution keeping guns out of classrooms.
Description: This resolution expresses the sense of the Senate that federal funds shall not be used to train or arm school personnel with firearms.
Last Action: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S1906)
Last Action Date: March 14, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Keeping guns out of classrooms.
Description: This resolution expresses the sense that federal funds shall not be used to train or arm school personnel with firearms.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: April 8, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Assault Weapons Ban of 2019
Description: Makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD). The prohibition does not apply to a firearm that is (1) manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action; (2) permanently inoperable; (3) an antique; or (4) a rifle or shotgun specifically identified by make and model. The bill also exempts from the prohibition the following, with respect to a SAW or LCAFD: importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession related to certain law enforcement efforts, or authorized tests or experiments; importation, sale, transfer, or possession related to securing nuclear materials; and possession by a retired law enforcement officer. The bill permits continued possession, sale, or transfer of a grandfathered SAW, which must be securely stored. A licensed gun dealer must conduct a background check prior to the sale or transfer of a grandfathered SAW between private parties. The bill permits continued possession of, but prohibits sale or transfer of, a grandfathered LCAFD. Newly manufactured LCAFDs must display serial number identification. Newly manufactured SAWs and LCAFDs must display the date of manufacture. The bill requires law enforcement agencies to be notified when a prohibited person attempts to purchase a grandfathered SAW. It also allows a state or local government to use Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program funds to compensate individuals who surrender a SAW or LCAFD under a buy-back program.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: February 15, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Firearm Safety Act of 2019
Description: Allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for firearms and firearm components.
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Last Action Date: February 8, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act
Description: To modernize the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988.
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: March 25, 2019
Session: 116th Congress
Title: Assault Weapons Ban of 2019
Description: Makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD). The prohibition does not apply to a firearm that is (1) manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action; (2) permanently inoperable; (3) an antique; or (4) a rifle or shotgun specifically identified by make and model. The bill also exempts from the prohibition the following, with respect to a SAW or LCAFD: importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession related to certain law enforcement efforts, or authorized tests or experiments; importation, sale, transfer, or possession related to securing nuclear materials; and possession by a retired law enforcement officer. The bill permits continued possession, sale, or transfer of a grandfathered SAW, which must be securely stored. A licensed gun dealer must conduct a background check prior to the sale or transfer of a grandfathered SAW between private parties. The bill permits continued possession of, but prohibits sale or transfer of, a grandfathered LCAFD. Newly manufactured LCAFDs must display serial number identification. Newly manufactured SAWs and LCAFDs must display the date of manufacture. The bill also allows a state or local government to use Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program funds to compensate individuals who surrender a SAW or LCAFD under a buy-back program.
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S103-104)
Last Action Date: January 9, 2019
Session: 115th Congress
Title: No Guns for Terrorists Act of 2018
Description: No Guns for Terrorists Act of 2018
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Last Action Date: December 6, 2018
Session: 115th Congress
Title: Jake Laird Act of 2018
Description: Jake Laird Act of 2018
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Last Action Date: June 5, 2018