Protecting the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2025
Official title: To prohibit the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services from declaring certain emergencies or disasters for the purpose of imposing gun control.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Protecting the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2025
This bill prohibits (1) the President or the Department of Health and Human Services from declaring emergencies or disasters for the purpose of imposing gun control; and (2) a federal officer or employee, or person operating under color of federal law or receiving federal funds, from banning the possession, manufacture, sale, or transfer of weapons to which the Second Amendment of the Constitution applies, ammunition, or firearm accessories while acting in support of relief from a major disaster or emergency.
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- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS
- GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA, INC.
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS
- GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA, INC.
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2039: Protecting the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2039/
"H.R. 2039: Protecting the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2039/.
H.R. 2039, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2039/.
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