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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 367
To prohibit the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of
.50 caliber rifles, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY3, 2025
Mr. D
URBIN(for himself, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. BOOKER, Mr.
K
ELLY, Mr. KAINE, Mr. KIM, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. REED,
and Mr. W
YDEN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To prohibit the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or
possession of .50 caliber rifles, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Arming Cartels 4
Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON RIFLES CAPABLE OF FIRING .50 6
CALIBER AMMUNITION. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 44 of title 18, United 8
States Code, is amended— 9
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(1) in section 922, by adding at the end the fol-1
lowing: 2
‘‘(aa) R
IFLESCAPABLE OFFIRING.50 CALIBERAM-3
MUNITION.— 4
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-5
graph (2), it shall be unlawful for any person to im-6
port, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or af-7
fecting interstate or foreign commerce, a rifle capa-8
ble of firing .50 caliber ammunition. 9
‘‘(2) E
XCEPTIONS.— 10
‘‘(A) G
OVERNMENT USE .—Paragraph (1) 11
shall not apply to the importation for, manufac-12
ture for, sale to, transfer to, or possession by 13
the United States, a department or agency of 14
the United States, a State, or a department, 15
agency, or political subdivision of a State, of a 16
rifle capable of firing .50 caliber ammunition. 17
‘‘(B) G
RANDFATHERED RIFLES .—Para-18
graph (1) shall not apply to the sale, transfer, 19
or possession of any rifle otherwise lawfully pos-20
sessed on or before the date of enactment of the 21
Stop Arming Cartels Act of 2025.’’; and 22
(2) in section 924(a)(1)(B), by striking ‘‘or 23
(q)’’ and inserting ‘‘(q), or (aa)’’. 24
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(b) INCLUSION OFCERTAINRIFLES ASFIREARMS 1
U
NDERNATIONALFIREARMSACT.— 2
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Section 5845(a) of the In-3
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking 4
‘‘and (8) a destructive device’’ and inserting ‘‘(8) a 5
destructive device; and (9) a rifle which is capable 6
of firing .50 caliber ammunition and is lawfully pos-7
sessed on or before the date of enactment of the 8
Stop Arming Cartels Act of 2025’’. 9
(2) E
FFECTIVE DATE.— 10
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-11
graph (B), the amendments made by this sub-12
section shall take effect on the date which is 12 13
months after the date of enactment of this Act. 14
(B) R
EGISTRATION.— 15
(i) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 16
subparagraph (A) or any other provision of 17
law, any person possessing a rifle which is 18
capable of firing .50 caliber ammunition 19
which is not registered to such person in 20
the National Firearms Registration and 21
Transfer Record shall register each such 22
rifle so possessed with the Secretary in 23
such form and manner as the Secretary 24
may require within the 12-month period 25
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immediately following the date of enact-1
ment of this Act. No fee or tax shall be im-2
posed with respect to any registration re-3
quired under this subparagraph. 4
(ii) I
NCLUSION IN REGISTRY .—Any 5
registration described in clause (i) shall be-6
come a part of the National Firearms Reg-7
istration and Transfer Record. No infor-8
mation or evidence required to be sub-9
mitted or retained by a natural person to 10
register a firearm under this subparagraph 11
shall be used, directly or indirectly, as evi-12
dence against such person in any criminal 13
proceeding with respect to a prior or con-14
current violation of law. 15
(C) D
EFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 16
(i) N
ATIONAL FIREARMS REGISTRA -17
TION AND TRANSFER RECORD .—The term 18
‘‘National Firearms Registration and 19
Transfer Record’’ means the registry es-20
tablished pursuant to section 5841 of the 21
Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 22
(ii) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Sec-23
retary’’ has the same meaning given such 24
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term under section 7701(a)(11)(B) of the 1
Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 2
SEC. 3. EXCEPTION TO COVERAGE UNDER PROTECTION OF 3
LAWFUL COMMERCE IN ARMS ACT. 4
Section 4(5)(A) of the Protection of Lawful Com-5
merce in Arms Act (15 U.S.C. 7903(5)(A)) is amended— 6
(1) in clause (v), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end; 7
(2) in clause (vi), by striking the period at the 8
end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 9
(3) by adding at the end the following: 10
‘‘(vii) an action brought against a 11
manufacturer or seller that knowingly sells 12
or transfers a qualified product, or at-13
tempts or conspires to do so, knowing or 14
having reasonable cause to believe that the 15
transaction is prohibited under section 16
805(c) of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin 17
Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1904(c)).’’. 18
SEC. 4. FEDERAL FIREARM PROHIBITOR FOR SIGNIFICANT 19
FOREIGN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS AND 20
CERTAIN OTHER FOREIGN PERSONS. 21
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 922(d) of title 18, United 22
States Code, is amended— 23
(1) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the 24
end; 25
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(2) by redesignating paragraph (11) as para-1
graph (12); 2
(3) by inserting after paragraph (10) the fol-3
lowing: 4
‘‘(11) is— 5
‘‘(A) a significant foreign narcotics traf-6
ficker publicly identified by the President in a 7
report under subsection (b) or (h)(1) of section 8
804 of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designa-9
tion Act (21 U.S.C. 1903); or 10
‘‘(B) a foreign person designated by the 11
Secretary of the Treasury under section 805(b) 12
of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation 13
Act (21 U.S.C. 1904(b)); or’’; and 14
(4) in paragraph (12), as so redesignated, by 15
striking ‘‘(10)’’ and inserting ‘‘(11)’’. 16
(b) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO 17
NICS.—Section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Pre-18
vention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901) is amended— 19
(1) in subsection (b)(2)(D), by inserting ‘‘or 20
that transfer of a firearm or ammunition to the indi-21
vidual would violate subsection (d)(11) of such sec-22
tion 922’’ after ‘‘section 922 of title 18, United 23
States Code,’’; 24
(2) in subsection (e)(1)— 25
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(A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘or 1
to whom transfer of a firearm would violate 2
subsection (d)(11) of such section 922,’’ after 3
‘‘section 922 of title 18, United States Code or 4
State law,’’; 5
(B) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ‘‘or 6
that transfer of a firearm or ammunition to the 7
person would violate subsection (d)(11) of such 8
section 922,’’ after ‘‘section 922 of title 18, 9
United States Code,’’; 10
(C) in subparagraph (F)(iii)(I), by striking 11
‘‘(g) or (n)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)(11), (g), or 12
(n)’’; and 13
(D) in subparagraph (G)(i), by striking 14
‘‘(g) or (n)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)(11), (g), or 15
(n)’’; 16
(3) in subsection (g), by inserting ‘‘or that 17
transfer of a firearm to a prospective transferee 18
would violate subsection (d)(11) of such section 19
922,’’ after ‘‘section 922 of title 18, United States 20
Code or State law,’’; and 21
(4) in subsection (i)(2)— 22
(A) by striking ‘‘persons,’’ and inserting 23
‘‘persons who are’’; and 24
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(B) by inserting before the period at the 1
end the following: ‘‘, or to whom transfer of a 2
firearm would violate subsection (d)(11) of such 3
section 922’’. 4
SEC. 5. ADDING RIFLES TO MULTIPLE FIREARM SALES RE-5
PORTING REQUIREMENTS. 6
Section 923(g)(3)(A) of title 18, United States Code, 7
is amended by striking ‘‘pistols, or revolvers, or any com-8
bination of pistols and revolvers’’ and inserting ‘‘pistols, 9
revolvers, or rifles, or any combination of pistols, revolvers, 10
and rifles’’. 11
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