Bill > S3493

Introduced Session

A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that a member of the Armed Forces and the spouse of that member shall have the same rights regarding the receipt of firearms at the location of any duty station of the member. This bill broadens the scope of allowable firearm transactions involving active duty service members and their spouses. Specifically, the bill allows a licensed gun dealer, importer, or manufacturer to sell or ship a firearm or ammunition to the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty outside the United States. (Current law already allows a licensed dealer, importer, or manufacturer to sell or ship a firearm or ammunition to a member of the Armed Forces on active duty outside the United States.) The bill also specifies that, for purposes of federal firearms laws, a member of the Armed Forces on active duty, or his or her spouse, is a resident of the state in which (1) the member or spouse maintains legal residence, (2) the permanent duty station of the member is located, and (3) the member maintains a home from which he or she commutes to the permanent duty station.

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Mike Rounds (R)*,  Mike Braun (R),  Shelley Moore Capito (R),  Tom Cotton (R),  Kevin Cramer (R),  Mike Crapo (R),  Ted Cruz (R),  Michael Enzi (R),  Joni Ernst (R),  Lindsey Graham (R),  Cindy Hyde-Smith (R),  James Inhofe (R),  James Lankford (R),  Kelly Loeffler (R),  Jim Risch (R),  Marco Rubio (R),  John Thune (R),  Thom Tillis (R), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (on 03/12/2020)

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