Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
This bill would expand the rights of a military service members family to purchase firearms the same as the service member.
Title: Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act
Subject: Crime and law enforcement: Firearms and explosives: Military personnel and dependents
Description: Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act This bill amends the federal criminal code to allow a licensed gun dealer, importer, or manufacturer to sell or ship a firearm to the spouse of a member of the U.S. Armed Forces on active duty. (Current law already allows a licensed dealer, importer, or manufacturer to sell a firearm to a member of the U.S. Armed Forces on active duty.) The bill also specifies that, for purposes of federal firearms laws, a member of the U.S. Armed Forces on active duty, or his or her spouse, is a resident of the state in which: (1) the member or spouse maintains legal residence, (2) the permanent duty station of the member is located, and (3) the member maintains a home from which he or she commutes to the permanent duty station.
Session: 115th Congress
Last Action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Last Action Date: February 15, 2017
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/394/all-info
Companion Bill: HB256
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12 sponsors: Mike Rounds (R); John Thune (R); James Inhofe (R); Mike Crapo (R); James Lankford (R); Marco Rubio (R); Lindsey Graham (R); Cory Gardner (R); Michael Enzi (R); Bill Cassidy (R); Joni Ernst (R); Ted Cruz (R)
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Feb 15 2017 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Feb 23 2017 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: S
Committee Name: Armed Services
There have not been any votes on this bill