Title: Protecting the Right To Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2021
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Protecting the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2021
This bill prohibits (1) the President or the Department of Health and Human Services from declaring emergencies or disasters for the purpose of imposing gun control; and (2) a federal officer or employee, or person operating under color of federal law, from banning the manufacture, sale, or transfer of firearms or ammunition while acting in support of relief from a major disaster or emergency.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1916 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1916

    To prohibit the President and the Secretary of Health and Human 
   Services from declaring certain emergencies or disasters for the 
                    purpose of imposing gun control.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 27, 2021

Mr. Braun (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Boozman, Mr. 
 Cotton, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Daines, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Hawley, Mr. 
   Hoeven, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Moran, Mr. 
  Risch, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Thune, Mr. Tillis, Mr. 
   Wicker, Mr. Young, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Cruz, and Mr. Scott of South 
   Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the President and the Secretary of Health and Human 
   Services from declaring certain emergencies or disasters for the 
                    purpose of imposing gun control.

    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 ``Protecting the Right To Keep and 
Bear Arms Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON DECLARATIONS BY PRESIDENT.

    The President (or any designee thereof) shall not, for the purpose 
of imposing gun control, declare an emergency pursuant to the National 
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) or an emergency or major 
disaster pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.).

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON DECLARATIONS BY HHS.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not, for the 
purpose of imposing gun control, declare a public health emergency 
pursuant to section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
247d).

SEC. 4. FIREARMS POLICIES.

    Section 706(a) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5207(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3) by striking ``; or'' and inserting a 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (4) by striking the period and inserting a 
        semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) prohibit the manufacturing, sale, or transfer of 
        firearms; or
            ``(6) prohibit the manufacturing, sale, or transfer of 
        ammunition.''.
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