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Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act
This bill broadens the scope of allowable firearms transactions involving active-duty service members and their spouses.
Specifically, the bill allows a licensed gun dealer, importer, or manufacturer to sell or ship a firearm or ammunition to the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty outside the United States. Current law already allows a licensed dealer, importer, or manufacturer to sell or ship a firearm or ammunition to a member of the Armed Forces on active duty outside the United States.
The bill also specifies that, for purposes of federal firearms laws, a member of the Armed Forces on active duty, or his or her spouse, is a resident of the state in which (1) the member or spouse maintains legal residence, (2) the permanent duty station of the member is located, and (3) the member maintains a home from which he or she commutes to the permanent duty station.
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Rep. Murphy, Gregory F. [R-NC-3] · R–NC
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-03-11 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This bill proposes changes to federal firearms rules for military families. It would recognize several states as places of residence for active-duty military members and their spouses. It would also add spouses to an existing provision concerning receipt of firearms or ammunition at overseas duty stations, although that provision’s full conditions are not supplied. The changes would apply to conduct after a six-month period following enactment.
(b) For purposes of this chapter, a member of the Armed Forces on active duty, or a spouse of such a member, is a resident of— (1) the State in which the member or spouse maintains legal residence; (2) the State in which the permanent duty station of the member is located; and (3) the State in which the member maintains a place of abode from which the member commutes each day to the permanent duty station of the member.
2. Receipt of firearm or ammunition by spouse of member of the Armed Forces at a duty station of the member outside the United States Section 925(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting or to the spouse of such a member before or to;
The amendments made by this Act shall apply to conduct engaged in after the 6-month period that begins with the date of the enactment of this Act.
Section 2 would add references to military spouses in four places in an existing federal firearms provision. Its heading concerns receipt of firearms or ammunition at a member’s overseas duty station. Because the underlying provision is not reproduced, these edits alone do not establish the full permission, restrictions, or exceptions that would apply.
2. Receipt of firearm or ammunition by spouse of member of the Armed Forces at a duty station of the member outside the United States Section 925(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting or to the spouse of such a member before or to; (2) by striking members, and inserting members and spouses,; (3) by striking members or and inserting members, spouses, or; and (4) by striking member or and inserting member, spouse, or.
Section 3 would replace the federal firearms chapter’s residency provision. An active-duty military member or that member’s spouse would count as a resident of the state where the member or spouse maintains legal residence and the state containing the member’s permanent duty station.
Section 921(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) For purposes of this chapter, a member of the Armed Forces on active duty, or a spouse of such a member, is a resident of— (1) the State in which the member or spouse maintains legal residence; (2) the State in which the permanent duty station of the member is located;
The proposed residency rule would also recognize the state where the military member keeps a home from which the member commutes daily to the permanent duty station. This basis would apply to both the member and spouse, but the specified home and daily commute are the member’s.
(b) For purposes of this chapter, a member of the Armed Forces on active duty, or a spouse of such a member, is a resident of—
(3) the State in which the member maintains a place of abode from which the member commutes each day to the permanent duty station of the member.
The amendments would apply only to conduct occurring after the six-month period beginning on enactment. This is a conditional implementation rule, not a fixed calendar date.
The amendments made by this Act shall apply to conduct engaged in after the 6-month period that begins with the date of the enactment of this Act.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated April 3, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 11, 2025. It does not establish the bill’s subsequent progress or enactment status.
Source snapshot updated 2026-04-03T15:57:24Z. 2025-03-11: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. 2025-03-11: Introduced in House
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