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HR 4060 117th Congress House Crime and Law Enforcement

Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021

Introduced: June 22, 2021 Introduced by: Newhouse, Dan Republican · Washington See on congress.gov
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Passed Senate
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Became law
Nov 1, 2022
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Jun 28, 2021
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3162-3163)
Jun 22, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Jun 22, 2021
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021

This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to designate the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing firearms, or importing or manufacturing ammunition, as a critical infrastructure sector. Additionally, the bill states that individuals who are employed by those entities are critical infrastructure workers.

The term critical infrastructure means systems and assets, physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health and safety, or any combination of those matters.

What's happening now November 1, 2022

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4060: Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4060/
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"H.R. 4060: Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4060/.
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H.R. 4060, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4060/.
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