Protecting the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Cloud, Michael [R-TX-27]
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Summary
Limits federal emergency and public-health emergency powers used to impose gun-control measures. The bill bars the President or any designee from using the National Emergencies Act or the Stafford Act, and bars the Health and Human Services Secretary from declaring a public-health emergency, when the declaration is made for the purpose of imposing gun control. It also amends Section 706(a) of the Stafford Act to add four prohibitions that address possession, manufacture, sale, or transfer of arms, ammunition, ammunition feeding devices, and firearm accessories.
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- Gun owners and sellers: Federal emergency and public-health declarations could no longer be used as a legal basis to impose new gun-control rules during crises, which narrows pathways for temporary federal restrictions on firearms.
- Federal officials and agencies: The President, HHS Secretary, and their designees lose authority to declare emergencies under those laws specifically to impose gun-control measures, limiting one set of federal response tools.
- Disaster response and communities: The Stafford Act change codifies explicit prohibitions tied to arms, ammunition, feeding devices, and accessories, which alters how emergency or disaster orders can treat those items and is framed to protect Second Amendment rights.
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No gun control via federal emergencies
This bill would block the President from declaring a national or disaster emergency to impose gun-control rules. It would also block the HHS Secretary from using a public health emergency for that purpose. The bill would amend disaster law so those powers could not be used to ban the possession, manufacture, sale, or transfer of firearms, ammunition, ammunition feeding devices, or firearms accessories. If enacted, these limits would take effect upon enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Cloud, Michael [R-TX-27]
TX • R
Cosponsors
Nehls
TX • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-MN-1]
MN • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Greene (GA)
GA • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. De La Cruz, Monica [R-TX-15]
TX • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
DesJarlais
TN • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
TN • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
NY • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Issa, Darrell [R-CA-48]
CA • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Wied
WI • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Rulli, Michael A. [R-OH-6]
OH • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
LaMalfa
CA • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
LA • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Burlison, Eric [R-MO-7]
MO • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-2]
MI • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Tiffany
WI • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Weber, Randy K. Sr. [R-TX-14]
TX • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10]
PA • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Biggs (SC)
SC • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
AZ • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Schmidt
KS • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Gooden, Lance [R-TX-5]
TX • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Womack
AR • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Onder
MO • R
Sponsored 3/11/2025
Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2]
IN • R
Sponsored 3/14/2025
Rep. Collins, Mike [R-GA-10]
GA • R
Sponsored 3/14/2025
Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19]
FL • R
Sponsored 3/18/2025
Rep. Mann, Tracey [R-KS-1]
KS • R
Sponsored 3/21/2025
Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]
MD • R
Sponsored 3/25/2025
McGuire
VA • R
Sponsored 3/25/2025
Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
NE • R
Sponsored 3/26/2025
Rep. Fallon, Pat [R-TX-4]
TX • R
Sponsored 4/8/2025
Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21]
NY • R
Sponsored 4/8/2025
Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
VA • R
Sponsored 4/10/2025
Rep. Hinson, Ashley [R-IA-2]
IA • R
Sponsored 5/15/2025
Rep. Gill, Brandon [R-TX-26]
TX • R
Sponsored 10/10/2025
Roll Call Votes
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