Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act
Latest action · Apr 23, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 5, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act
This bill expands the categories of persons who are prohibited from shipping, transporting, receiving, or possessing firearms or ammunition.
Specifically, it adds the following new categories of prohibited persons:
- persons convicted of a crime of violence in the most recent 10-year period;
- persons under age 25 who have been adjudicated as having committed an offense that would have been a crime of violence if committed by an adult;
- persons convicted, during a consecutive 3-year period in the most recent 10-year period, of two separate offenses involving drug or alcohol possession or distribution; and
- persons convicted of stalking.
Cosponsors 10
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 5, 2021 to Mar 17, 2022, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Feb 5, 2021 |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Original | Feb 5, 2021 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Feb 5, 2021 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Original | Feb 5, 2021 |
| D-VI | Stacey E. Plaskett | Original | Feb 5, 2021 |
| D-CT | Jahana Hayes | Mar 11, 2021 | |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Mar 11, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| D-KY | John A. Yarmuth | Dec 23, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Thomas R. Suozzi | Mar 17, 2022 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 23, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- Feb 5, 2021Introduced in House
- Feb 5, 2021Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 5, 2021Introduced in House
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