I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6970 
To amend title 41, United States Code, to prohibit the Federal Government 
from entering into contracts with an entity that discriminates against 
firearm or ammunition industries, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 8, 2022 
Mr. BERGMAN (for himself, Mr. CAWTHORN, Mr. LAMBORN, Mrs. MILLER of 
Illinois, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. BUDD, Mr. YOUNG, Mr. RESCHENTHALER, 
Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. FEENSTRA, Ms. HERRELL, Mr. MCKINLEY, 
Mr. JACKSON, Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. HUDSON, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. DAVID-
SON, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. PFLUGER, Mr. KELLER, Mr. 
CLOUD, Mr. GOSAR, Mrs. MILLER of West Virginia, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. 
MOONEY, Mr. BOST, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, 
Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina, Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. 
BISHOP of North Carolina, Mr. CARTER of Georgia, Mr. KUSTOFF, Mr. 
BIGGS, Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. RICE of South Carolina, Mr. 
PERRY, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. CLINE, Mrs. 
MCCLAIN, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. 
BABIN, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mrs. CAMMACK, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. AUSTIN 
SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. LATURNER, Mrs. BOEBERT, Mrs. BICE of Okla-
homa, Mr. HUIZENGA, Mr. MOOLENAAR, and Mr. WALBERG) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
Reform 
A BILL 
To amend title 41, United States Code, to prohibit the Fed-
eral Government from entering into contracts with an 
entity that discriminates against firearm or ammunition 
industries, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Firearm Industry Non- 
Discrimination Act’’ or the ‘‘FIND Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON ENTERING INTO CONTRACTS 
WITH ENTITIES DISCRIMINATING AGAINST 
FIREARM OR AMMUNITION INDUSTRIES. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Chapter 47 of title 41, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘§ 4715. Prohibition on entering into contracts with 
entities discriminating against firearm or 
ammunition industries. 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of an executive 
agency shall include in each contract for the pro-
curement of goods or services awarded by the execu-
tive agency, a clause requiring the prime contractor 
to certify that the contractor— 
‘‘(A) has no policy, practice, guidance, or 
directive that discriminates against a firearm 
entity or firearm trade association; and 
‘‘(B) will not adopt a policy, practice, guid-
ance, or directive that discriminates against a 
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firearm entity or firearm trade association dur-
ing the term of the contract. 
‘‘(2) SUBCONTRACTS.—The head of an execu-
tive agency shall include in each contract for the 
procurement of goods or services awarded by the ex-
ecutive agency, a clause that prohibits the prime 
contractor on such contract from— 
‘‘(A) awarding a first-tier subcontract with 
a value greater than 10 percent of the total 
value of the prime contract to an entity that 
fails to certify in writing to the prime con-
tractor that the entity— 
‘‘(i) has no policy, practice, guidance, 
or directive that discriminates against a 
firearm entity or firearm trade association; 
and 
‘‘(ii) will not adopt a policy, practice, 
guidance, or directive that discriminates 
against a firearm entity or firearm trade 
association during the term of the con-
tract; and 
‘‘(B) structuring subcontract tiers in a 
manner designed to avoid violating subpara-
graph (A) by enabling a subcontractor to per-
form more than 10 percent of the total value of 
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the prime contract as a lower-tier subcon-
tractor. 
‘‘(3) PENALTIES.—The clause included in con-
tracts pursuant to paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) 
shall provide that, in the event that the prime con-
tractor violates the clause— 
‘‘(A) the prime contract shall be termi-
nated for default; and 
‘‘(B) a suspension or debarment pro-
ceeding will be initiated for the contractor on 
the basis of the violation. 
‘‘(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to 
a contract for the procurement of goods or services that 
is a sole-source contract. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) DISCRIMINATE.—The term ‘discriminate’ 
means to— 
‘‘(A) make a judgement about a policy, 
practice, guidance, or directive on the basis 
of— 
‘‘(i) partial criteria or a category- 
based assessment analysis, rather than— 
‘‘(I) on a case-by-case basis; or 
‘‘(II) using empirical data evalu-
ated under quantifiable standards; or 
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