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H.R.882 / 117th Congress

Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Official summary

Version 00 · Introduced in House · Feb 5, 2021

Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act

This bill expands the categories of persons who are prohibited from shipping, transporting, receiving, or possessing firearms or ammunition. Specifically, it adds the following new categories of prohibited persons: persons convicted of a crime of violence in the most recent 10-year period;

persons under age 25 who have been adjudicated as having committed an offense that would have been a crime of violence if committed by an adult;

persons convicted, during a consecutive 3-year period in the most recent 10-year period, of two separate offenses involving drug or alcohol possession or distribution; and

persons convicted of stalking.

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Who introduced it

Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2] · D–IL

Committees

  • Judiciary Committee
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  1. Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

  2. Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

  3. Introduced in House

  4. Introduced in House

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