Assault Weapons Ban of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Adam Schiff
Introduced
Summary
Nationwide ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. This bill would broadly prohibit the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, and interstate possession of defined semiautomatic assault weapons and magazines holding more than 10 rounds while creating marking rules, enforcement tools, exemptions, and buy-back funding.
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- Gun owners and households: Would make it unlawful for unlicensed people to transfer grandfathered semiautomatic assault weapons to other unlicensed people unless a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer handles the transfer, with required background checks and recordkeeping starting 90 days after enactment. Appendix A lists hundreds of specific models that would be exempted.
- Manufacturers and dealers: Would require new serial-number and marking rules for firearms made after enactment and give the Attorney General authority to set identification standards and maintain a public, annual record of SAWs used in crimes.
- Law enforcement and local governments: Creates exemptions for qualified federal and state officers and authorizes Byrne grant funding for buy-back programs to compensate surrendered semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 2 costs, 1 mixed.
Ban on many assault weapons
If enacted, it would be illegal to import, make, sell, transfer, or possess many semiautomatic assault weapons and magazines in interstate commerce. A large-capacity device is any feed device that holds more than 10 rounds. People who lawfully had covered items on the date of enactment could keep them under the grandfather rule. The bill also lists many narrow exemptions such as certain law enforcement and government uses.
New rules for grandfathered weapons
If enacted, owners of grandfathered semiautomatic assault weapons would face new rules. You could not privately transfer such a gun to another private person unless a licensed dealer first takes custody and runs the required background check. That transfer rule would begin 90 days after enactment. You must lock the gun or carry it if a person prohibited from having firearms could access it. The Attorney General would set a maximum fee dealers may charge for handling transfers.
Stronger penalties and forfeiture rules
If enacted, existing federal criminal penalties and seizure/forfeiture rules would apply to violations involving the newly banned weapons and large-capacity devices. Prosecutors could use current sentencing and asset-forfeiture tools for those offenses. These changes would take effect upon enactment.
Grants for local gun buybacks
If enacted, the federal government could give Byrne grants to states and localities to help pay people who turn in certain semiautomatic assault weapons and large magazines. The bill does not set how much each payment would be. Grants would be available to jurisdictions that run buy-back programs.
List of exempt firearm models
If enacted, the bill would add an Appendix A listing specific firearm models that are not covered by the ban. A firearm is exempt only if it was manufactured on the bill's introduction date. Owners and dealers of listed models could keep or transfer those specific guns under the law.
Public list of guns used in crimes
If enacted, the Attorney General would keep and publish a record of semiautomatic assault weapon makes, models, and manufacture dates when they are used in state or federal crimes. The record must include crime details and investigation outcomes and be sent to Congress each year.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Adam Schiff
CA • D
Cosponsors
Christopher Murphy
CT • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Alex Padilla
CA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Angela Alsobrooks
MD • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Tammy Baldwin
WI • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Michael Bennet
CO • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Lisa Blunt Rochester
DE • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Cory Booker
NJ • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Maria Cantwell
WA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Christopher Coons
DE • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Tammy Duckworth
IL • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Richard Durbin
IL • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Ruben Gallego
AZ • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Kirsten Gillibrand
NY • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Maggie Hassan
NH • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
John Hickenlooper
CO • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Mazie Hirono
HI • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Timothy Kaine
VA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Andy Kim
NJ • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]
NM • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Edward Markey
MA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Jeff Merkley
OR • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Patty Murray
WA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Gary Peters
MI • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
John Reed
RI • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Jacky Rosen
NV • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Bernie Sanders
VT • I
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Charles Schumer
NY • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Jeanne Shaheen
NH • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Elissa Slotkin
MI • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Tina Smith
MN • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Chris Van Hollen
MD • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Mark Warner
VA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Raphael Warnock
GA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Elizabeth Warren
MA • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Peter Welch
VT • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Sheldon Whitehouse
RI • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Ron Wyden
OR • D
Sponsored 4/30/2025
Jon Ossoff
GA • D
Sponsored 5/5/2025
Brian Schatz
HI • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
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