Official Summaries

Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2025

This bill modifies criminal penalties for an offense involving the theft of a firearm from a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer, or from their business premises.

Specifically, the bill does the following:

• increases from 10 to 20 years the maximum prison term, and
• creates a 3- or 5-year mandatory minimum prison term for an offense that occurs during the commission of a burglary or robbery.

An attempt to commit an offense is subject to the same penalties as a substantive offense.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1773 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1773

    To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to enhance 
   penalties for theft of a firearm from a Federal firearms licensee.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2025

   Mr. Rutherford (for himself, Mr. Golden of Maine, Mr. Estes, Ms. 
   Tenney, Mr. Bost, Mr. LaLota, Mr. Bean of Florida, Mr. Rose, Mr. 
  Finstad, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Moore of Utah, Mr. 
   Guthrie, Mr. Bilirakis, Ms. De La Cruz, Mr. Hill of Arkansas, Mr. 
  Babin, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Collins, Mr. 
Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Gooden, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Mann, Mr. Owens, Mrs. 
 Hinson, Mr. Alford, Mr. Green of Tennessee, Mr. Womack, Mr. Feenstra, 
    Mr. Rouzer, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Harris of 
Maryland, Mr. Langworthy, Mr. Ezell, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Tony Gonzales of 
Texas, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mr. Evans of Colorado, Mr. Moore of North 
    Carolina, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Kustoff, and Mr. Smith of Nebraska) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to enhance 
   penalties for theft of a firearm from a Federal firearms licensee.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Firearms Licensee Protection 
Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO ENHANCE CERTAIN PENALTIES.

    Section 924 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (i) and inserting the following:
    ``(i)(1)(A) A person who knowingly violates section 922(u), or 
attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more 
than 20 years, or both.
    ``(B) In the case of a violation described in subparagraph (A) that 
occurs during the commission of--
            ``(i) a burglary, the term of imprisonment shall be not 
        less than 3 years; or
            ``(ii) a robbery, the term of imprisonment shall be not 
        less than 5 years.
    ``(2) In this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `burglary' means the unlawful entry into, or 
        remaining in, the business premises of a licensed importer, 
        licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer with the intent to 
        commit a crime; and
            ``(B) the term `robbery' has the meaning given the term in 
        section 1951(b).''; and
            (2) in subsection (m), by inserting ``, or attempts to do 
        so,'' after ``or licensed collector''.
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