Title: No Congressional Gun Loophole Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
No Congressional Gun Loophole Act
This bill prohibits the Capitol Police Board from allowing Members of Congress or their staff to carry firearms on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol or in its buildings. Members and their staff may store firearms in their cars in Capitol complex garages if their possession complies with the firearms laws of the District of Columbia and the firearms are locked with gun locks while on the complex.
Current board regulations allow Members of Congress to keep firearms in their offices; the regulations also allow Members and their staff to transport unloaded and securely wrapped firearms within the Capitol grounds. Firearms are prohibited inside the chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as in adjacent lobbies and cloakrooms, the galleries, the Marble Room of the Senate, and the Rayburn Room of the House, unless approved by the Sergeants at Arms for security purposes.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 545 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 545

 To amend title 40, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress 
and their employees from carrying firearms in the Capitol building, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 28, 2021

   Mr. Huffman (for himself, Mr. Levin of California, Mrs. Axne, Mr. 
Grijalva, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Norton, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Hastings, Miss Rice 
   of New York, Ms. Barragan, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. 
Casten, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Torres of New York, Ms. 
     Chu, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Case, Mr. Auchincloss, Mr. 
 Espaillat, Mr. Carson, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Lee of California, 
 Ms. Meng, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Jones, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Bonamici, 
 Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Evans, and Ms. Stevens) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 40, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress 
and their employees from carrying firearms in the Capitol building, 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 ``No Congressional Gun Loophole Act''.

SEC. 2. CAPITOL GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS SECURITY.

    (a) In General.--Section 5104(e)(1) of title 40, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by redesignating clauses (i), 
        (ii), and (iii) as subclauses (I), (II), and (III), 
        respectively, and moving the margins 2 ems to the right;
            (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses 
        (i) and (ii), respectively, and moving the margins 2 ems to the 
        right;
            (3) by striking ``An individual'' and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) In general.--An individual''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Exception.--Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), 
                the Capitol Police Board may not authorize or permit a 
                Member of Congress or an employee of such Member of 
                Congress to carry on or have readily accessible to such 
                Member or employee a firearm, except a Member or 
                employee may store a firearm in a car owned by such 
                Member or employee that is parked in a garage in the 
                Capitol complex if the Member or employee is in 
                compliance with the firearms laws of the District of 
                Columbia for the lawful possession of such firearm and 
                such firearm is locked with a gun lock while on the 
                Capitol complex.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date that is 15 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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