Protect Our Military Families’ 2nd Amendment Rights Act

Bill: 119-s-961
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2025-03-11
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-03-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act</strong></p><p>This bill broadens the scope of allowable firearms transactions involving active-duty service members and their spouses.</p><p>Specifically, the bill allows a licensed gun dealer, importer, or manufacturer to sell or ship a firearm or ammunition to the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty outside the United States. Current law already allows a licensed dealer, importer, or manufacturer to sell or ship a firearm or ammunition to a member of the Armed Forces on active duty outside the United States.</p><p>The bill also specifies that, for purposes of federal firearms laws, a member of the Armed Forces on active duty, or his or her spouse, is a resident of the state in which (1) the member or spouse maintains legal residence, (2) the permanent duty station of the member is located, and (3) the member maintains a home from which he or she commutes to the permanent duty station.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 961 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 11 (legislative day, March 10), 2025 Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mrs. Capito , Mr. Risch , Mr. Cramer , Mr. Hoeven , Mr. Scott of Florida , Mr. Justice , Mr. Budd , Mrs. Hyde-Smith , and Mr. Cruz ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to provide that a member of the Armed Forces and the spouse of that member shall have the same rights regarding the receipt of firearms at the location of any duty station of the member.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protect Our Military Families’ 2nd Amendment Rights Act . 2. Receipt of firearm or ammunition by spouse of member of the Armed Forces at a duty station of the member outside the United States Section 925(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting or to the spouse of such a member before or to ; (2) by striking members, and inserting members and spouses, ; (3) by striking members or and inserting members, spouses, or ; and (4) by striking member or and inserting member, spouse, or . 3. Residency of spouses of members of the Armed Forces to be determined on the same basis as the residency of such members for purposes of Federal firearms laws Section 921(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) For purposes of this chapter, a member of the Armed Forces on active duty, or a spouse of such a member, is a resident of— (1) the State in which the member or spouse maintains legal residence; (2) the State in which the permanent duty station of the member is located; and (3) the State in which the member maintains a place of abode from which the member commutes each day to the permanent duty station of the member. . 4. Effective date The amendments made by this Act shall apply to conduct engaged in after the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.