Assigned to JUD FOR COMMITTEE
ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fifth Legislature, Second Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1125
firearms and equipment; regulation
Purpose
Declares unlawful and unenforceable any retroactive law that regulates firearms and
equipment, including mandatory buyback and registration laws or laws that require additional or
new taxes on firearms or equipment that were purchased under a previous law.
Background
The Arizona Constitution grants an individual citizen the right to bear arms in defense of
the individual or the state. An individual or corporation is not authorized to organize, maintain or
employ an armed body of men (Ariz. Const. art. 2 § 26).
Prohibited possessor is any person who: 1) has been found to constitute a danger to self or
others or to have a persistent or acute disability, and whose right to possess a firearm has not been
restored; 2) has been convicted of a felony or who has been adjudicated delinquent for a felony
and whose right to possess has not been restored; 3) is at the time of possession serving a term of
imprisonment in any correctional facility or serving a term of probation for specified offenses; 4)
is an undocumented immigrant traveling with or without documentation in Arizona for business
or pleasure or who is studying in Arizona with foreign residence abroad, with certain exceptions;
5) has been found incompetent pursuant to the Arizona rules of criminal procedure; and 6) is found
guilty except insane (A.R.S. § 13-3101).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
Provisions
1. States that a retroactive law regulating firearms and equipment is unlawful and unenforceable,
including mandatory buyback or registration laws or a law that requires an additional or new
tax on firearms and equipment purchased under a previous law that required only a onetime
tax.
2. States that, pursuant to the Arizona Constitution, a person who is lawfully entitled to retain
possession of firearms and equipment may possess firearms and equipment and may use or
transport firearms and equipment in Arizona for any lawful purpose.
3. States that this legislation does not allow a prohibited possessor to regain the right to possess
a firearm. FACT SHEET
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4. Defines firearms and equipment as:
a) a semiautomatic handgun or revolver that is lawfully possessed by a citizen of Arizona or
that is on the retail market, including a semiautomatic handgun that is configured with any
magazine capacity or that is in use by the U.S. Armed Forces or that is authorized by any
law enforcement agency in Arizona and with any variety of firearm-mounted equipment,
including a threaded barrel, flash-hiding device, sound-dampening device, detachable
magazine, aiming system, trigger system and a light, that is in use by the U.S. Armed
Forces or that is authorized by a law enforcement agency of Arizona;
b) a semiautomatic shotgun, pump-action shotgun, lever-action shotgun or single-shot
shotgun that is in any lawful barrel length and that is lawfully possessed by a citizen of
Arizona, that is on the retail market or that is in use by the U.S. Armed Forces or that is
authorized by any law enforcement agency in Arizona, that is configured with any
magazine type or magazine capacity that is in use by the U.S. Armed Forces or that is
authorized by any law enforcement agency in Arizona and that is configured with any
variety of firearm-mounted equipment, including a threaded barrel, foregrips, detachable
magazine, bayonet lug, bayonet, collapsible or folding stock, carrying sling, aiming system,
trigger system and a light, that is in use by the U.S. Armed Forces or that is authorized by
a law enforcement agency in Arizona;
c) a semiautomatic rifle that is in any lawful barrel length and that is lawfully possessed by a
citizen of Arizona, that is on the retail market or is in use by the U.S. Armed Forces or that
is authorized by any law enforcement agency in Arizona, that is configured with any
magazine capacity that is in use by the U.S. Armed Forces or that is authorized by any law
enforcement agency in Arizona and that is configured with any variety of firearm-mounted
equipment, including a threaded barrel, flash-hiding device, sound-dampening device,
pistol grips, vertical foregrips, detachable magazine, bayonet lug, bayonet, collapsible or
folding stock, carrying sling, aiming system, trigger system and a light, that is in use by the
U.S. Armed Forces or that is authorized by a law enforcement agency in Arizona;
d) any other small arms weapons system, ammunition, accessory or equipment and any
component that is used to assemble or reload ammunition, or a cartridge or shell,
component, part, tool or device that is used for manufacturing ammunition or the
ammunition's components and that is lawfully possessed by a citizen of Arizona, that is on
the retail market or that is in use by the U.S. Armed Forces or that is authorized for use by
a law enforcement agency in Arizona; and
e) any capacity magazine or ammunition-feeding device and any caliber or gauge or
ammunition that is compatible with any aforementioned firearms including sufficient
quantities of ammunition necessary to maintain a high degree of proficiency of arms and
to maintain a ready supply of ammunition.
5. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
January 25, 2022
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