Title: Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to designate the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing firearms, or importing or manufacturing ammunition, as a critical infrastructure sector. Additionally, the bill states that individuals who are employed by those entities are critical infrastructure workers.
The term critical infrastructure means systems and assets, physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health and safety, or any combination of those matters.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4060 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4060

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate the business 
   of importing, manufacturing, or dealing firearms, or importing or 
 manufacturing ammunition pursuant to section 923 of title 18, United 
    States Code, as a critical infrastructure sector, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 22, 2021

Mr. Newhouse (for himself, Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Stewart, Mr. 
 Young, Mr. C. Scott Franklin of Florida, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Gaetz, Ms. 
 Herrell, Mr. Mann, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. 
Lamborn, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Norman, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Valadao, Mr. 
 Hice of Georgia, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Budd, 
Mr. Sessions, Mr. Harris, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Bishop of North Carolina, 
 Mr. Emmer, Mr. Mooney, and Ms. Tenney) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate the business 
   of importing, manufacturing, or dealing firearms, or importing or 
 manufacturing ammunition pursuant to section 923 of title 18, United 
    States Code, as a critical infrastructure sector, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Second Amendment is Essential Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR AND WORKERS.

    (a) Critical Infrastructure Sector.--The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall designate the business of importing, manufacturing, or 
dealing firearms, or importing or manufacturing ammunition pursuant to 
section 923 of title 18, United States Code, as a critical 
infrastructure sector (as such term is defined in section 1016(e) of 
the USA Patriot Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 5195c(e)).
    (b) Critical Infrastructure Workers.--Individuals employed by 
entities designated as a critical infrastructure sector pursuant to 
subsection (a) are critical infrastructure workers (as such term is 
defined in section 522 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
321k)).
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