US HB3227 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on July 27 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-09-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Protecting America's Warriors Act This bill states that any provision in any law, rule, regulation, or executive order that prohibits trained military personnel or trained civilian personnel from carrying officially-issued or personally-owned firearms (defined as handguns only) on a military installation in the United States shall have no force or effect with regard to such military personnel. The Department of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments shall not reinstate the firearm bans or enact similar restrictions prohibiting or restricting trained military personnel or trained civilian personnel from carrying officially-issued or personally-owned firearms on a military installation in the United States. The President shall not take any executive action or promulgate any rule or issue any executive order or regulation to prohibit or restrict trained military personnel or trained civilian personnel from carrying officially-issued or personally-owned firearms on a military installation in the United States.

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Title

Protecting America's Warriors Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2015-09-08HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
2015-07-27HouseReferred to House Judiciary
2015-07-27HouseReferred to House Armed Services
2015-07-27HouseReferred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2015-07-27HouseIntroduced in House

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