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Secure Background Checks Act of 2025
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a person who fails to meet age and residential requirements from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving firearms and ammunition, to increase the penalties for transfer of a firearm to any person who is under indictment, and for other purposes.
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Summary
Secure Background Checks Act of 2025
This bill extends federal restrictions on the receipt, possession, shipment, and transportation of firearms and ammunition to two new categories of persons:
- persons who fail to meet the minimum age requirements imposed by federal law and by the law of their resident state; and
- persons who are out-of-state residents and do not qualify for an exception, such as the temporary loan or rental of a firearm for lawful sporting purposes.
Additionally, the bill imposes criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both—on an individual who ships, transports, or receives a firearm or ammunition while under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Apr 3, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- Apr 3, 2025 Introduced in House
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