Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit machinegun conversion devices and illegal modifications of semiautomatic firearms, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act of 2025
This bill generally prohibits the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, receipt, or possession of
- a device that is primarily designed, or redesigned, to increase the rate of fire when attached to a semiautomatic firearm;
- a device, part, or combination of parts that is designed and functions to increase the rate of fire of a firearm; or
- a semiautomatic firearm that has been modified to materially increase the rate of fire or to approximate the action or rate of fire of a machine gun.
Additionally, the bill adds to the list of firearms subject to regulation under the National Firearms Act semiautomatic firearms that have been modified to materially increase the rate of fire or approximate the action or rate of fire of a machine gun.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.
- BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.
- BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives
- Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2799: Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2799/
"H.R. 2799: Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2799/.
H.R. 2799, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2799/.
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