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 conside…
The Secure Storage Information Act of 2025 requires Federal firearms licensees to provide Attorney General-prescribed secure-storage information to prospective firearm transferees, requires dealers to offer a variety of storage devices for sale, and creates a federal tax credit (up to $500 lifetime) for individuals who purchase qualifying gun safes. Regulatory requirements take effect six months after enactment; the tax credit applies to taxable years beginning after enactment.
Liberal emphasizes public-safety benefits and prevention potential
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates substantive legal requirements (information provision and device-availability duties for Federal firearms licensees) and a tax credit for purchases of storage devices, and it assigns implementation responsibilities and deadlines.
The Secure Storage Information Act of 2025 requires Federal firearms licensees to provide Attorney General-prescribed secure-storage information to prospective firearm transferees, requires dealers to offer a variety of storage devices for sale, and creates a federal tax credit (up to $500 lifetime) for individuals who purchase qualifying gun safes.
Regulatory requirements take effect six months after enactment; the tax credit applies to taxable years beginning after enactment.
Narrow, administratively focused bill with incentives increases acceptability, but firearm-policy sensitivity and fiscal cost reduce probability, especially in the Senate.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates substantive legal requirements (information provision and device-availability duties for Federal firearms licensees) and a tax credit for purchases of storage devices, and it assigns implementation responsibilities and deadlines. The bill specifies many operational elements (required content of information, regulatory deadline, tax credit rules) but contains drafting ambiguities in the statutory amendment language and omits fiscal, enforcement, and accountability details.
Liberal emphasizes public-safety benefits and prevention potential
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Liberal emphasizes public-safety benefits and prevention potential
Likely broadly supportive.
The bill promotes safe-storage education, increases access to locking devices at point-of-sale, and subsidizes secure storage purchases to reduce suicides and accidental shootings.
Moderately favorable but pragmatic.
Sees commonsense safety steps and market incentives, while wanting clearer cost, enforcement, and small-business impact analysis.
Skeptical.
While endorsing gun safety in principle, this persona worries the bill expands federal regulation of transfers and imposes burdens on dealers, and may see the tax credit as an inefficient subsidy.
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Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Narrow, administratively focused bill with incentives increases acceptability, but firearm-policy sensitivity and fiscal cost reduce probability, especially in the Senate.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberal emphasizes public-safety benefits and prevention potential
Narrow, administratively focused bill with incentives increases acceptability, but firearm-policy sensitivity and fiscal cost reduce probab…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates substantive legal requirements (information provision and device-availability duties for Federal firearms licensees) and a tax credit for purchases of storage…
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