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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 9266 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to restrict the sale and procurement 

of certain weapons and ammunition by the Department of Defense, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 2, 2024 

Mr. KIM of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. RASKIN, and Mr. ROBERT GARCIA

of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the 

Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 

each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to restrict the sale 

and procurement of certain weapons and ammunition 

by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Militarizing Our 

5 Streets Act of 2024’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON SALES AND PROCUREMENT BY 

2 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OF CERTAIN 

3 WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION. 

4 (a) RESTRICTION.— 

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 763 of title 10, 

6 United States Code, is amended by inserting after 

7 section 7544 the following: 

8 ‘‘§ 7545. Restriction on sales and procurement of cer9 tain weapons and ammunition 

10 ‘‘(a) PROHIBITIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN HIGHLY

11 DANGEROUS MILITARY-GRADE WEAPONS AND AMMUNI12 TION.— 

13 ‘‘(1) SALES IN COMMERCIAL MARKETPLACE.— 

14 The Secretary of Defense or a private operator of a 

15 government-owned plant may not sell to any dealer, 

16 directly or through a private contractor, in the com17 mercial marketplace— 

18 ‘‘(A) any military-grade assault weapon; or 

19 ‘‘(B) any covered ammunition. 

20 ‘‘(2) PROCUREMENT.—The Secretary of De21 fense may not procure any item from a dealer or 

22 manufacturer of firearms or ammunition that sells a 

23 military-grade assault weapon or covered ammuni24 tion in the commercial marketplace. 

25 ‘‘(b) LIMITATIONS RELATING TO OTHER WEAPONS

26 AND AMMUNITION.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) APPLICABILITY.—The provisions of this 

2 subsection shall apply to all firearms and ammuni3 tion, other than military-grade assault weapons and 

4 covered ammunition. 

5 ‘‘(2) SALES IN COMMERCIAL MARKETPLACE.— 

6 The Secretary of Defense or a private operator of a 

7 government-owned plant may not sell any firearm or 

8 ammunition to any dealer in the commercial market9 place that fails to meet the requirements described 

10 in paragraph (4). 

11 ‘‘(3) PROCUREMENT.—The Secretary of De12 fense may not procure any item from a dealer or pri13 vate manufacturer of firearms or ammunition that 

14 sells firearms or ammunition in the commercial mar15 ketplace if the dealer or private manufacturer— 

16 ‘‘(A) directly sells firearms or ammunition 

17 to individual purchasers in the commercial mar18 ketplace and fails to meet the requirements de19 scribed in paragraph (4); or 

20 ‘‘(B) sells any firearm or ammunition to 

21 any dealer in the commercial marketplace that 

22 fails to meets the requirements described in 

23 paragraph (4). 


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1 ‘‘(4) REQUIREMENTS.—The requirements de2 scribed in this paragraph for any dealer of firearms 

3 or ammunition are the following: 

4 ‘‘(A) The dealer must— 

5 ‘‘(i) with respect to a dealer of fire6 arms, have a license under chapter 44 of 

7 title 18; 

8 ‘‘(ii) with respect to a dealer of am9 munition, have a license under subsection 

10 (d)(1); and 

11 ‘‘(iii) comply with all requirements 

12 under Federal law for licensees under 

13 chapter 44 of title 18. 

14 ‘‘(B) In each of the previous 3 calendar 

15 years, the Attorney General has traced not 

16 more than 24 firearms used in crimes back to 

17 the dealer with a time-to-crime of less than 3 

18 years. 

19 ‘‘(C) With respect to a dealer that sells 

20 ammunition, during any 30-day period, the 

21 dealer may not transfer to the same individual 

22 purchaser— 

23 ‘‘(i) more than 500 rounds of covered 

24 ammunition; or 


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1 ‘‘(ii) more than 1000 rounds of other 

2 ammunition. 

3 ‘‘(D) The dealer must agree to a minimum 

4 code of conduct that includes the following: 

5 ‘‘(i) A refusal to transfer a firearm or 

6 ammunition until the NICS background 

7 check system has verified that the transfer 

8 is not prohibited. 

9 ‘‘(ii) The implementation of a security 

10 system, including adequate locks, exterior 

11 lighting, surveillance cameras, alarm sys12 tems, and other anti-theft measures and 

13 practices that the Attorney General may 

14 through regulations prescribe. 

15 ‘‘(iii) A refusal to sell firearms in any 

16 marketplace, including online or at a gun 

17 show, unless the marketplace requires 

18 every firearm seller to complete a NICS 

19 background check on prospective firearm 

20 purchasers. 

21 ‘‘(iv) A refusal to transfer firearms or 

22 ammunition to any person that exhibits 

23 signs of alcohol or drug intoxication or 

24 cognitive or mental instability (as those 

25 terms are defined by the Attorney General, 


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1 in coordination with the Secretary of 

2 Health and Human Services). 

3 ‘‘(v) A refusal to transfer a firearm or 

4 ammunition to any person the dealer 

5 knows or has reason to believe poses a 

6 danger to that person or others. 

7 ‘‘(vi) With respect to firearms, the im8 plementation and maintenance of a re9 motely searchable electronic record of— 

10 ‘‘(I) the make, model, caliber or 

11 gauge, and serial number of every 

12 firearm in the inventory of the dealer; 

13 and 

14 ‘‘(II) the performance of quar15 terly inventory checks. 

16 ‘‘(E) With respect to ammunition, the 

17 dealer must implement and maintain a remotely 

18 searchable electronic record of— 

19 ‘‘(i) importation; 

20 ‘‘(ii) production; 

21 ‘‘(iii) shipment; 

22 ‘‘(iv) receipt; 

23 ‘‘(v) sale; and 

24 ‘‘(vi) any other disposition of ammuni25 tion at the place of business of the dealer 


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1 for such period, and in such form, as the 

2 Attorney General may by regulations pre3 scribe. 

4 ‘‘(F) The dealer must implement a manda5 tory training course developed by the Attorney 

6 General, in coordination with the Secretary of 

7 Health and Human Services, where appro8 priate— 

9 ‘‘(i) which, with respect to each em10 ployee of the dealer authorized to engage 

11 in the transfer of firearms or ammunition 

12 in the course of the business— 

13 ‘‘(I) an employee as of the date 

14 of enactment of this section completes 

15 not later than 90 days after the date 

16 of enactment of this section; and 

17 ‘‘(II) an employee hired after the 

18 date of enactment of this section com19 plete not later than 30 days after the 

20 date on which the employee is hired; 

21 and 

22 ‘‘(ii) that trains employees on— 

23 ‘‘(I) how to recognize and iden24 tify— 

25 ‘‘(aa) straw purchasers; and 


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1 ‘‘(bb) any other fraudulent 

2 activity described in chapter 44 

3 of title 18, United States Code; 

4 ‘‘(II) indicators that a person is 

5 attempting to purchase a firearm or 

6 ammunition illegally; 

7 ‘‘(III) how to recognize and iden8 tify indicators that an individual in9 tends to use a firearm for unlawful 

10 purposes; 

11 ‘‘(IV) how to recognize and iden12 tify indicators that an individual in13 tends to use a firearm for self-harm; 

14 ‘‘(V) how to prevent theft or bur15 glary of firearms and ammunition; 

16 ‘‘(VI) how to respond in the cir17 cumstances described in subclauses (I) 

18 through (V) and the applicable report19 ing requirements; 

20 ‘‘(VII) how to verify the age of a 

21 purchaser of a firearm or ammuni22 tion; 

23 ‘‘(VIII) with respect to a dealer 

24 of ammunition, how to detect whether 

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1 plicable ammunition purchase limit to 

2 prevent a violation of subparagraph 

3 (C); and 

4 ‘‘(IX) other reasonable business 

5 practices that the Attorney General 

6 determines will deter firearm traf7 ficking or deter the provision of a fire8 arm to an individual who indicates an 

9 intent to use a firearm for unlawful 

10 purposes or for self-harm. 

11 ‘‘(G) Not later than 30 days after the date 

12 on which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire13 arms and Explosives releases to the dealer re14 sults of any compliance inspection conducted by 

15 the Bureau, the dealer must report the results 

16 of the inspection to any manufacturer or whole17 saler dealer from which the dealer obtains fire18 arms or ammunition. 

19 ‘‘(H) The dealer does not maintain finan20 cial ties valued at more than $1,000,000 annu21 ally with an entity that— 

22 ‘‘(i) during the 5-year period pre23 ceding the date of a sale or procurement 

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1 rated from the dealer through a spin-off 

2 transaction; and 

3 ‘‘(ii) does not comply with the require4 ments of this paragraph. 

5 ‘‘(5) INSPECTION RESULTS.—With respect to 

6 an inspection of a dealer described in paragraph 

7 (4)(G), not later than 30 days after the date of the 

8 inspection, the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, 

9 Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shall send to the 

10 Department of Defense a copy of the report. 

11 ‘‘(6) REGULATIONS.—The Attorney General 

12 may promulgate necessary regulations to implement 

13 the requirements of this subsection. 

14 ‘‘(7) INTERDEPARTMENT COORDINATION.—The 

15 Attorney General, in coordination with the Secretary 

16 of Defense, shall monitor compliance with paragraph 

17 (4) by dealers. 

18 ‘‘(8) PENALTY.—A dealer that violates para19 graph (4) may not participate in a sale or purchase 

20 described in paragraph (2) or (3). 

21 ‘‘(9) DATA SHARING.—Notwithstanding any 

22 other law, the Attorney General may share crime 

23 gun trace data with the Department of Defense as 

24 necessary to carry out this section. 

25 ‘‘(c) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) GOVERNMENT-OWNED PLANT REPORT.— 

2 Not less frequently than annually, each government3 owned plant that produces any ammunition or fire4 arms that are commercially sold shall submit to 

5 Congress a report that includes, for the year covered 

6 by the report— 

7 ‘‘(A) the number of customers of the plant 

8 for ammunition or firearms in the commercial 

9 marketplace, disaggregated by the State in 

10 which the customer is located; 

11 ‘‘(B) the revenue of the plant from sales of 

12 ammunition or firearms in the commercial mar13 ketplace; 

14 ‘‘(C) the amount of ammunition or fire15 arms sold by the plant in the commercial mar16 ketplace; 

17 ‘‘(D) an operational plan for avoiding any 

18 diversion of firearms or ammunition into the il19 legal market or to customers not authorized for 

20 purchase under this section; and 

21 ‘‘(E) steps taken to implement the plan de22 scribed in subparagraph (D). 

23 ‘‘(2) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REPORT.—Not 

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1 fense shall submit to Congress a report containing 

2 the following: 

3 ‘‘(A) A list of manufacturers and dealers 

4 from which the Secretary procures firearms 

5 that also sell firearms in the commercial mar6 ket. 

7 ‘‘(B) A list of the types of firearms those 

8 dealers sell in the commercial market. 

9 ‘‘(C) The amount of money the Secretary 

10 pays to those dealers for firearms each year. 

11 ‘‘(d) LICENSES FOR DEALING AMMUNITION.— 

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall 

13 make licenses available to dealers of ammunition, 

14 who may apply for such licenses for the purpose of 

15 subsection (b)(4)(A)(ii) to be eligible to make the 

16 sales or purchases described in paragraph (2) or (3) 

17 of subsection (b). 

18 ‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—In making licenses 

19 available in accordance with paragraph (1), the At20 torney General shall apply in a substantially similar 

21 manner the requirements under chapter 44 of title 

22 18 for licenses of dealers of firearms to dealers of 

23 ammunition. 

24 ‘‘(3) NICS SYSTEM.— 


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1 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 

2 days after the date of enactment of the Stop 

3 Militarizing Our Streets Act of 2024, the Attor4 ney General shall authorize a dealer of ammuni5 tion licensed in accordance with paragraph (1) 

6 to access and use the NICS background check 

7 system in accordance with laws applicable to 

8 the use of the NICS background check system. 

9 ‘‘(B) AUTHORIZATION.—A dealer of am10 munition authorized under subparagraph (A) 

11 may use the NICS background check system for 

12 the purpose of subsection (b)(4)(D) to be eligi13 ble to make the sales or purchases described in 

14 paragraph (2) or (3) of subsection (b). 

15 ‘‘(C) AMMUNITION BACKGROUND

16 CHECKS.—A dealer of ammunition licensed in 

17 accordance with paragraph (1) may perform a 

18 NICS background check on an individual pur19 chasing ammunition from the dealer. 

20 ‘‘(e) REGULATIONS.—The Attorney General shall 

21 promulgate a rule with requirements for dealers to comply 

22 with the recordkeeping requirement described in sub23 section (b)(4)(E). 

24 ‘‘(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 


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1 ‘‘(1) AMMUNITION; FIREARM; MANUFAC2 TURER.—The terms ‘ammunition’, ‘firearm’, and 

3 ‘manufacturer’ have the meaning given those terms 

4 in section 921(a) of title 18. 

5 ‘‘(2) COVERED AMMUNITION.—The term ‘cov6 ered ammunition’— 

7 ‘‘(A) means ammunition that is .22 caliber 

8 or larger; and 

9 ‘‘(B) includes .223 Remington ammunition 

10 and 7.62 North Atlantic Treaty Organization 

11 ammunition. 

12 ‘‘(3) DEALER.—The term ‘dealer’— 

13 ‘‘(A) has the meaning given the term in 

14 section 921 of title 18; and 

15 ‘‘(B) includes any person engaged in the 

16 business of selling ammunition at wholesale or 

17 retail, including an unlicensed private vendor of 

18 ammunition. 

19 ‘‘(4) FINANCIAL TIES.—The term ‘financial 

20 ties’— 

21 ‘‘(A) has the meaning given the term by 

22 the Secretary of Defense in a regulation; and 

23 ‘‘(B) includes a revenue sharing agreement 

24 or a transfer of assets through a purchase or 

25 sale transaction. 


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1 ‘‘(5) GAS-OPERATED.—The term ‘gas-operated’, 

2 with respect to a firearm, means that the firearm 

3 harnesses or traps a portion of the high-pressure gas 

4 from a fired cartridge to cycle the action using— 

5 ‘‘(A) a long stroke piston, in which gas is 

6 vented from the barrel to a piston that is me7 chanically fixed to the bolt group and moves to 

8 cycle the action; 

9 ‘‘(B) a short stroke piston, in which gas is 

10 vented from the barrel to a piston that moves 

11 separately from the bolt group so that the en12 ergy is imparted through a gas piston to cycle 

13 the action; 

14 ‘‘(C) a system that traps and vents gas 

15 from the barrel or the chamber to directly 

16 strike or impinge the bolt, bolt carrier, or slide 

17 assembly to unlock and cycle the action; 

18 ‘‘(D) a hybrid system that combines ele19 ments of a system described in subparagraph 

20 (C) with a system described in subparagraph 

21 (A) or (B) to capture gas vented from the bar22 rel to cycle the action; or 

23 ‘‘(E) a blowback-operated system that di24 rectly uses the expanding gases of the ignited 

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1 to drive the breechblock or breech bolt rear2 ward. 

3 ‘‘(6) GOVERNMENT-OWNED PLANT.—The term 

4 ‘government-owned plant’ means a facility owned by 

5 the Federal Government that produces firearms or 

6 ammunition. 

7 ‘‘(7) GUN SHOW.—The term ‘gun show’ means 

8 a gun show or an event described in section 

9 478.100(b) of title 27, Code of Federal Regulations, 

10 or any successor regulation. 

11 ‘‘(8) LARGE-CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING

12 DEVICE.—The term ‘large-capacity ammunition 

13 feeding device’— 

14 ‘‘(A) means a magazine, belt, drum, feed 

15 strip, or similar device, including any such de16 vice joined or coupled with another in any man17 ner, that has an overall capacity of, or that can 

18 be readily restored, changed, or converted to ac19 cept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition; and 

20 ‘‘(B) does not include an attached tubular 

21 device designed to accept, and capable of oper22 ating only with, .22 caliber rimfire ammunition. 

23 ‘‘(9) MILITARY-GRADE ASSAULT WEAPON.—The 

24 term ‘military-grade assault weapon’ means a fire25 arm that— 


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1 ‘‘(A) is semi-automatic; 

2 ‘‘(B) is— 

3 ‘‘(i) gas-operated or has been modified 

4 to operate as a gas-operated firearm; 

5 ‘‘(ii) recoil-operated or has been modi6 fied to operate as a recoil-operated firearm, 

7 unless the firearm is a handgun or pistol; 

8 or 

9 ‘‘(iii) designed and functions, or can 

10 be readily modified, to materially increase 

11 the rate of fire of the firearm; and 

12 ‘‘(C) has— 

13 ‘‘(i) a fixed ammunition feeding device 

14 with the capacity to accept more than 10 

15 rounds of ammunition; or 

16 ‘‘(ii) the capacity to accept a large-ca17 pacity ammunition feeding device. 

18 ‘‘(10) NICS BACKGROUND CHECK.—The term 

19 ‘NICS background check’ means a background check 

20 through the national instant criminal background 

21 check system established under section 103 of the 

22 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 

23 40901). 

24 ‘‘(11) RECOIL-OPERATED.—The term ‘recoil-op25 erated’ with respect to a firearm, means that the 


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1 firearm uses the recoil force to unlock the breech 

2 bolt and complete the cycle of extracting, ejecting, 

3 and reloading. 

4 ‘‘(12) SEMI-AUTOMATIC.—The term ‘semi-auto5 matic’, with respect to a firearm, means any repeat6 ing firearm, other than a machine gun, that— 

7 ‘‘(A) uses a portion of the energy of a fir8 ing cartridge or shell to extract the fired car9 tridge case or fired shell casing and chamber 

10 the next round; and 

11 ‘‘(B) requires a separate pull, release, 

12 push, or other method of initiation of the trig13 ger to fire each cartridge or shell. 

14 ‘‘(13) SPIN-OFF TRANSACTION.—The term 

15 ‘spin-off transaction’ means a transaction that sepa16 rates a division or line of business from a parent 

17 company of an entity. 

18 ‘‘(14) STRAW PURCHASE.—The term ‘straw 

19 purchase’— 

20 ‘‘(A) with respect to a firearm, means a 

21 purchase described in section 932(b) of title 18; 

22 and 

23 ‘‘(B) with respect to ammunition, means a 

24 purchase described in 932(b) of title 18, except 

25 that, for the purpose of this subparagraph, any 


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1 reference in that section to ‘firearm’ shall be 

2 deemed to be a reference to ‘ammunition’. 

3 ‘‘(15) TIME-TO-CRIME.—The term ‘time-to4 crime’ means the period of time between the retail 

5 sale of a firearm and the recovery of the firearm by 

6 a law enforcement agency as a result of the use or 

7 suspected use of the firearm in a crime.’’. 

8 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec9 tions at the beginning of such chapter is amended 

10 by inserting after the item relating to section 7544 

11 the following new item: 

‘‘7545. Restriction on sales and procurement of certain weapons and ammunition.’’. 

12 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 

13 (1) COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES WITH NON-ARMY

14 ENTITIES.—Section 7544(c) of title 10, United 

15 States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 

16 following new paragraph: 

17 ‘‘(5) The non-Army entity abides by the com18 mercial sale restrictions set forth in section 7545 of 

19 this title.’’. 

20 (2) POLICY.—Section 7552 of such title is 

21 amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 

22 striking ‘‘It’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to the restric23 tions set forth under section 7545 of this title, it’’. 


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1 (3) ARMAMENT RETOOLING AND MANUFAC2 TURING SUPPORT INITIATIVE.—Section 7553(b) of 

3 such title is amended, in the matter preceding para4 graph (1), by striking ‘‘The’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject 

5 to the restrictions set forth under section 7545 of 

6 this title, the’’. 

7 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR IN8 CREASED NICS FUNDING.—There are authorized to be 

9 appropriated to the Attorney General such sums as are 

10 necessary to carry out the amendments made by this sec11 tion, including to upgrade and maintain the national in12 stant criminal background check system established under 

13 section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention 

14 Act (34 U.S.C. 40901). 

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