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With legislative sessions across the country and in Congress kicking off for the year, stay tuned to FPCAction.org for the latest bills affecting your fundamental rights! 

Federal

Bill/Issue: Biden Administration Anti-Gun ATF Nominee

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Biden Administration
• Summary: The Biden Administration has nominated former ATF agent and Giffords anti-gun activist, David Chipman, to be Director of the ATF.
• Take Action: Link

Bill/Issue: Biden Administration Executive Gun Actions

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Biden Administration
• Summary: The Biden administration is targeting stabilizing braces, pushing model "red flag" legislation, targeting so-called "ghost guns," and nominating Waco siege ATF Agent and anti-freedom activist David Chipman to be Director of ATF
• Take Action: Link

Bill/Issue: HR 127 - Gun licensing, Registration & Partial Ammo Ban

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18)
• Summary: To provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of certain ammunition.
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: HR 1207 - The “Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2021”

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)
• Summary: Institutes a federal licensing scheme for ammunition retailers, prohibits online ammunition sales, and establishes reporting requirements for ammunition purchases.
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/ Issue: HR 121 - Funding To Hire 200 New ATF Gun Confiscators

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18)
• Summary: "To provide for the hiring of 200 additional Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and investigators to enforce gun laws."
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: HR 125 (AKA the "Gun Safety: Not Sorry Act of 2021") - Federal Waiting Period For Semiautos, Magazines & Ammo

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18)
• Summary: Institutes a federal waiting period for semiautomatic firearms, "high-capacity" magazines, armor piercing ammunition, and suppressors. 
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: Trio of Universal Background Check Bills

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Summary: These bills are all designed to implement a nationwide registry of your firearms, setting the stage for gun confiscation.
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: HR 1454 - Treats Firearm Assembly Kits As Actual Guns

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Rep. Andriano Espaillat (D-NY)
• Summary: Would amend title 18, United States Code, to require firearm assembly kits to be considered to be firearms.
• Take Action: Link

Bill/Issue: Dangerous gun control package meant to garner GOP support

• Position: Opposed
• Summary: Requires NICS checks at gun shows, allows for extended retention of NICS data, mandates "Smart Guns," forces gun owners to obtain liability insurance
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Bill/Issue: Joe Biden's Intention To Nominate Anti-Gunner Merrick Garland for U.S. AG

• Position: Opposed
• Summary: President-Elect Joe Biden has announced he will nominate Merrick Garland - Pres. Obama's former choice for the Supreme Court - to lead the Department of Justice. 
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: HR 130 - Forced Safe Storage, Investigation of Reports 

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18)
• Summary: Mandates so-called "safe storage" of your firearms and requires police investigation of reports that you're not blindly doing the government's bidding.
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: HR 167 - FFL Requirement for Gun Show Transfers

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: Rep. Al Green (D-TX-9)
• Summary: Prohibits non-federally firearms licensed individuals from transferring firearms at gun shows.
• Take Action: Link 

California

Bill/Issue: California AB 311 - Ban on Firearms "Precursor Parts" at Gun Shows

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: CA Assembly Member Ward (D-78)
• Summary: Prohibits gun show vendors from dealing in unfinished receiver parts, i.e. “firearms precursor parts”. 
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: California SB 264 - Gun Show Shadow Ban

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: CA Sen. David Min (D-37)
• Summary: Forbids the sale of guns and ammunition on property owned or leased by the state government. 
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: California AB 1223 - Gun and Ammo Tax

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: CA  Assembly Member Marc Levine (D-10)
• Summary:  Imposes a $25 tax on guns and a tax on ammunition 
• Take Action: Link 

Connecticut

Bill/Issue: Connecticut SB 125 - Handgun Rationing

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: CT Sen. William Haskell (D-26)
• Summary: Handgun sale rationing bill. 
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: Connecticut AB 5531 - Ammo Tax

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: CT Rep. Jillian Gilchrest (D-18)
• Summary: Taxes retail ammunition sales. 
• Take Action: Link 

Florida

Bill/Issue: Florida SB 370 - Expansive "Assault Weapons" Ban

• Position: Opposed
• Author: FL Sen. Gary M. Farmer Jr. (D-34)
• Summary: Expansive ban on semiautomatic firearms, encompassing rifles, pistols & shotguns that meet the government's arbitrary criteria. 
• Take Action: Link 

Bill/Issue: Florida SB 372 - Ban on 3-Dimensionally Printed Firearms

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: FL Sen. Linda Stewart (D-13)
• Summary: Criminalizes the manufacture, transfer, importation, distribution, sale, or possession of “3D-printed firearms”
• Take Action: Link 

Maryland

Bill/Issue: MD HB 175 - Background Checks for Ammo Purchases

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Delegate Shaneka Henson (D-30A)
• Summary: Maryland's HB 175 mandates federal background checks for ammunition purchases and the creation of indefinitely held, detailed transaction records that identify the recipient and what they have purchased.
• Take Action: Link

Massachusetts

Bill/Issue: MA HD 135 - Universal Background Checks

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: Rep. David Paul Linsky (D-5)
• Summary: Massachusetts' HD 135 would require all private transfers of firearms to be conducted by an FFL at their primary place of business.
• Take Action: Link

Bill/Issue: MA HD 136 - Gun Owner Liability Insurance Mandate

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: Rep. David Paul Linsky (D-5)
• Summary: Massachusetts' HD 136 would require gun owners to carry minimum liability insurance. Failure to carry the insurance would result in a fine of $500 to $5,000, up to a year in prison, or both.
• Take Action: Link

Montana

Bill/Issue: MT HB 102 - Expansion of Carry Rights (Signed! 2/18/21)

• Position: Support
• Author: Representative Seth Berglee (R-HD58)
• Summary: Montana's HB 102 would improve the ability of Montanans to provide for their own defense by reducing unconstitutional carry restrictions across the state.
• Take Action: Link

New Mexico

Bill/Issue: NM HB 166 - Criminalizes Home Firearms Building

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: Representative Tara L. Lujan (D-48)
• Summary: NM HB 166 is an assault on the right to build firearms in the privacy of your own home.
• Take Action: Link

Bill/Issue: NM HB 193 - Adds Negative Provisions to Existing Red Flag Laws

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: Rep. Daymon Ely (D-23); Rep. Joy Garratt (D-29)
• Summary: NM HB 193 Adds Negative Provisions to Existing Red Flag Laws 
• Take Action: Link

New York

Bill/Issue: NY A. 352 - Blanket Body Armor Ban and Confiscation

• Position: Opposed
• Author: Jonathan Jacobson (D-104)
• Summary: A. 352 deprives New Yorkers of their right to passive defense by instituting a confiscatory ban on body armor.
• Take Action: Link

North Dakota

Bill/Issue: ND HB 1339

• Position: Support
• Author: Jonathan Jacobson (D-104)
• Summary: HB 1339 removes knife restrictions and reduces knife carry restrictions
• Take Action: Link

Texas

Bill/Issue: Flood of Texas 2A Legislation

• Summary: Dozens of bill have been pre-filed for the new Texas legislative session affecting the 2A and your other fundamental freedoms. From background checks to the use of force, these bills demand your attention. 
• Take Action: Link

Utah

Bill/Issue: UT HB 60 - Constitutional Carry (Signed! 2/12/21)

• Position: Support, Amendment Requested
• Author: Rep. Walt Brooks (R-75); Sen. David Hinkins (R-27)
• Summary: Removes concealed carry license requirement for individuals 21 and older.
• Take Action: Link

Virginia

Bill/Issue: VA HB 2276 - Ghost Gun Ban (Defeated! 3/2/21)

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: Delegate Marcus Simon (D-53)
• Summary: Virginia's HB 2276 would make it a felony to manufacture, import, sell, transfer, or possess any firearm that is undetectable by “detection devices” like X-ray machines.
• Take Action: Link

Washington

Bill/Issue: WA SB 5078 - Capacity Based Magazine Ban

• Position: Strongly Opposed
• Author: State Senators Liias, Kuderer, Darneille, Hunt, Nguyen, Pedersen, and Wilson, C.
• Summary: Bans future manufacture, possession, distribution, importation, sale, offer for sale, purchasing, or transfer of “large capacity magazines” (greater than 10 rounds).  
• Take Action: Link