Bans new .50 caliber rifles and requires registration for existing ones, with new rules for gun sales.
This bill would ban the sale, import, and making of new .50 caliber rifles. People who already own these rifles could keep them, but would need to register them with the government without a fee. It also adds new rules for reporting rifle sales and blocks firearms from foreign drug traffickers.
Today, there is no federal ban on .50 caliber rifles, and existing ones do not need to be registered. Gun stores are not required to report multiple rifle sales, and gun makers/sellers generally have immunity from lawsuits for sales to foreign drug traffickers. After this bill, new .50 caliber rifles would be banned, and existing ones would need to be registered within 12 months, with no fee. Gun stores would report multiple rifle sales, and gun makers/sellers could be sued for knowingly selling to foreign drug traffickers, who would be prohibited from getting firearms.
S 367 · 119th Congress · February 3, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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