2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-00821SF0029
SENATE FILE NO. SF0029
Firearm hold agreement-limited liability.
Sponsored by: Joint Transportation, Highways & Military
Affairs Interim Committee
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to civil procedure; providing liability for
2 a person that returns a firearm to the firearm owner
3 pursuant to a firearm hold agreement; providing an
4 exception; providing a definition; providing an exception;
5 specifying applicability; and providing for an effective
6 date.
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10. W.S. 1-3-120 is created to read:
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14 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-00822SF00291 (a) No cause of action shall arise against a person
2 for returning a firearm to a firearm owner at the
3 termination of a firearm hold agreement.
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5 (b) The immunity provided in subsection (a) of this
6 section shall not apply to an action arising against a
7 person for returning a firearm to a firearm owner at the
8 termination of a firearm hold agreement if the action was
9 the result of a breach of contract or otherwise unlawful
10 conduct on the part of the person holding a firearm for
11 another person.
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13 (c) As used in this section, "firearm hold agreement"
14 means a written or oral agreement between a firearm owner
15 and another person in which the other person takes physical
16 possession of the firearm owner's lawfully possessed
17 firearm at the owner's request, holds the firearm for an
18 agreed period of time and returns the firearm to the owner
19 according to the terms of the agreement.
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21 (d) This section shall not apply to firearms,
22 machineguns, rifles, shotguns and any other weapon under
23 the National Firearms Act (26 U.S.C. ยง 5801 et seq.). 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-00823SF00291
2. This act shall apply to all firearm hold
3 agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2025.
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5. This act is effective July 1, 2025.
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7 (END)