S1531-119

In Committee

Assault Weapons Ban of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Apr 30, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

The bill reduces a compliance mandate, product standard, trade restriction provision: 2, requires loosens a compliance mandate, product standard, exemption provision: 3, and requires removes a compliance mandate, trade restriction, definition change provision: 5. It relies on compliance mandates, product standards, trade restrictions, and definition changes. The main policy areas are Defense, Finance, Healthcare, and Immigration.

Who Benefits and How

The available clause analysis does not identify a specific beneficiary group.

Who Bears the Burden and How

No clear private burden is identified from the available clause analysis; implementing agencies may still take on administrative work.

Key Provisions

  • Reduces a compliance mandate, product standard, trade restriction provision: 2.
  • Requires loosens a compliance mandate, product standard, exemption provision: 3.
  • Requires removes a compliance mandate, trade restriction, definition change provision: 5.
  • Expands a grant, definition change provision: 6. Use of Byrne grants for buy-back programs for semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices Section 501(a)(1) of title I of the Omnibus...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for primary purpose and policy domains.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

The bill reduces a compliance mandate, product standard, trade restriction provision: 2, requires loosens a compliance mandate, product standard, exemption provision: 3, and requires removes a compliance mandate, trade restriction, definition change provision: 5.

Key Policy Areas

Defense, Finance, Healthcare, Immigration

Primary Purpose

The bill reduces a compliance mandate, product standard, trade restriction provision: 2, requires loosens a compliance mandate, product standard, exemption provision: 3, and requires removes a compliance mandate, trade restriction, definition change provision: 5.

Policy Domains

Defense Finance Healthcare Immigration

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Apr 30, 2025

Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Padilla, …

Apr 30, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Apr 30, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Defense Finance Healthcare Immigration
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

3 terms
"chief law enforcement officer" §HD8B0CADAFD0C43F981E2135E0228176E

the chief of police, the sheriff, or an equivalent officer or the designee of any such individual

"campus law enforcement officer" §HF3105DFE6413494C9FCD7B98A6080DE0

an individual who is— (A)employed by a private institution of higher education that is eligible for funding under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.)

"belt-fed semiautomatic firearm" §HF375A34D0DB14DD2B1A1CE38F02E7C83

any repeating firearm that— (A)utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round

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