The gun control proposals the U.S. House will consider
Democrats on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee have unveiled a gun control legislative package
that they plan to mark up Thursday morning. The package, named the Protecting Our Kids Act, is made up
of eight bills related to gun control, all first introduced in 2021 by Democratic lawmakers. Only one had any
Republican co-sponsors, and it’s unlikely the package will find much GOP support.
Here are the eight bills combined in the House Judiciary package:
1) H.R.3015: Raise the Age Act
This bill would prohibit the sale of certain semiautomatic rifles to anyone under 21. Currently,
a person needs to be 18 to purchase one.
2) H.R. 2280: Prevent Gun Trafficking Act
This bill would establish a new federal penalty for gun trafficking, which could range from a fine to up to 10 years
in prison. The bill also allows for the seizure of firearms and ammunition involved in the offense.
3) H.R. 3088: The Untraceable Firearms Act
This bill aims to curb ghost guns, which are homemade guns that lack a serial number, making it difficult for law
enforcement to trace the owner of the weapon if it’s found at a crime scene. The Biden administration directed
the Justice Department to issue a final rule to ban manufacturers from making ghost gun kits.
4) H.R. 748: Ethan’s Law
This bill aims to regulate the storage of firearms, particularly in homes with children, by setting federal, state and
tribal requirements. The bill establishes “requirements for firearms on residential premises to be safely stored if a
minor is likely to gain access without permission or if a resident is ineligible to possess a firearm.”
5) H.R. 6370: The Safe Guns, Safe Kids Act
This bill would establish federal requirements for the storage of firearms on residential properties. The bill would
make it unlawful if a person who has a firearm “knows, or reasonably should know, that a minor is likely to gain
access to the firearm without the permission of the parent or guardian,” and if “a minor obtains the firearm and
uses the firearm in the commission of a crime or causes injury or death to such minor, or any other individual.”
6) H.R. 130: The Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act
This bill would establish federal requirements for firearms and ammunition on residential properties by requiring
firearms and ammunition to be safely stored if a minor is likely to gain access without permission to the firearm.
7) H.R. 5427: Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act
This bill would classify bump stocks as machine guns and require them to be registered under the National
Firearms Act and prevents the manufacture, sale, or possession of new bump stocks for civilian use.
8) H.R. 2510: The Keep Americans Safe Act
This bill would make it unlawful for the import, sale, manufacture, transfer or possession of a large capacity
ammunition feeding device, which can be a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device that has a capacity
of more than 10 rounds of ammunition. However, the bill allows existing magazines to be “grandfathered” in,
so they can still be held in possession, but prohibits the sale or transfer of “grandfathered” large capacity
ammunition feeding devices.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said on Twitter that the House separately will take
up Georgia Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath’s “red flag” bill this month.
Not as much as I was hoping for, maybe after the midterms. 
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