Official Summaries

Safe Bases Act of 2025

This bill provides statutory authority for the Department of Defense (DOD) to allow a service member to carry a concealed firearm while on any military installation. DOD must establish a single authority within the department to issue permits for this purpose. To be eligible for a permit, the service member must be on active duty and must not be prohibited under federal law from purchasing, owning, or possessing a firearm.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 454 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 454

 To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish an authority to issue 
   permits to certain members of the Armed Forces who seek to carry 
          concealed firearms while on military installations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2025

  Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish an authority to issue 
   permits to certain members of the Armed Forces who seek to carry 
          concealed firearms while on military installations.

    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 ``Safe Bases Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PERMITS TO CARRY CONCEALED FIREARMS ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall establish a 
single element of the Department of Defense to issue, upon request by a 
covered member, a permit that authorizes that covered member to carry a 
concealed firearm while on any military installation.
    (b) Covered Member Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
member'' means a member of the Armed Forces who--
            (1) is not prohibited from purchasing, owning, or 
        possessing a firearm under section 922 of title 18, United 
        States Code; and
            (2) is on active duty.
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