GRAM Act

Bill: 117-hr-2830
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2021-04-22
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Firearms and explosives

Indian lands and resources rights

Intergovernmental relations

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2021-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-04-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Gun Rights And Marijuana Act or the GRAM Act</strong></p> <p>This bill removes federal firearms-related restrictions on certain individuals who use or are addicted to marijuana.</p> <p>Currently, federal firearms law prohibits the sale or disposition of a firearm or ammunition to persons who are unlawful users of or addicted to a controlled substance. This bill exempts from the prohibition an adult whose use of or addiction to marijuana is lawful in the state or on the tribal lands where the person resides.<br> </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2830 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 22, 2021 Mr. Young (for himself, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois , and Mr. Mast ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To protect the Second Amendment rights of adults whose use of marijuana is permitted by State or tribal law.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Gun Rights And Marijuana Act or the GRAM Act . 2. Protection of Second Amendment rights of adults whose use of marijuana in accordance with State or tribal law Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (36) The term unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance shall not include a person by reason of unlawful use of or addiction to marihuana (as defined in section 102(16) of the Controlled Substances Act) if— (A) the person resides in a State, or on lands under the jurisdiction of an Indian tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian-Self Determination and Education Assistance Act), the laws of which permit the use of marihuana by an adult; and (B) the use of marihuana by the person in the State or on those lands, as the case may be, does not violate the laws of the State or Indian tribe, as the case may be. .