VotedBy VotedBy ⌕
Election Day · Tue, Nov 3See how your members of Congress voted →

H.R. 1296 · 116th Congress

Assault Weapons Ban of 2019

Key: what the circles and colors mean

Each circle is a bill. The ring fills as it moves through Congress:

IntroducedPassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law (gold)Resolution agreed to (full, dark)Failed or vetoed (gray)

Under the number: the Yea · Nay count of its final (or latest) recorded vote. On a member's page, the small badge is how that member voted: Y Yea / Aye, N Nay / No, P Present, – Not voting.

Gold and violet are only for Yea and Nay; they never mean a party. A member's party is the letter on their photo.

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

DCD CicillineSponsor
216 cosponsors · 215 D, 1 R
AAD Adams PAD Aguilar EBD Blumenauer GKD Butterfield KBD Bass SBD Bonamici JBD Beatty JBD Brownley ABD Bera DBD Beyer BBD Boyle NBD Barragán LBD Blunt Rochester ABD Brown JCD Clyburn JCD Cooper ECD Cummings WCD Clay ECD Case JCD Costa KCD Castor YCD Clarke SCD Cohen JCD Courtney ACD Carson GCD Connolly JCD Chu MCD Cartwright TCD Cárdenas KCD Clark JCD Correa CCD Crist SCD Carbajal SCD Casten ACD Craig JCD Crow GCD Cisneros DDD Davis DDD DeGette RDD DeLauro LDD Doggett MDD Doyle SDD Davis TDD Deutch SDD DelBene MDD DeSaulnier DDD Dingell VDD Demings ADD Delgado MDD Dean EED Engel AED Eshoo DED Evans AED Espaillat VED Escobar BFD Foster MFD Fudge LFD Frankel RGD Grijalva AGD Green JGD Garamendi TGD Gabbard RGD Gallego JGD Gomez CGD García SGD Garcia AHD Hastings SHD Hoyer BHD Higgins JHD Himes DHD Heck SHD Horsford JHD Huffman DHD Haaland JHD Hayes CHD Houlahan SJD Jackson Lee EJD Johnson HJD Johnson HJD Jeffries PJD Jayapal MKD Kaptur AKD Kirkpatrick WKD Keating JKD Kennedy DKD Kildee DKD Kilmer AKD Kuster RKD Kelly RKD Khanna RKD Krishnamoorthi JLD Lewis ZLD Lofgren NLD Lowey BLD Lee JLD Larson JLD Langevin RLD Larsen SLD Lynch DLD Lipinski DLD Loebsack BLD Luján ALD Lowenthal BLD Lawrence TLD Lieu ALD Lawson ALD Levin MLD Levin CMD Maloney JMD McGovern GMD Meeks BMD McCollum GMD Moore DMD Matsui JMD McNerney SMD Maloney GMD Meng SMD Moulton AMD McEachin SMD Murphy TMD Malinowski JMD Morelle DMD Mucarsel-Powell LMD McBath JND Nadler RND Neal END Norton GND Napolitano DND Norcross JND Neguse AOD Ocasio-Cortez IOD Omar FPD Pallone BPD Pascrell DPD Price EPD Perlmutter CPD Pingree DPD Payne MPD Pocan SPD Peters JPD Panetta DPD Phillips APD Pressley MQD Quigley LRD Roybal-Allard BRD Rush CRD Ruppersberger TRD Ryan CRD Richmond RRD Ruiz KRD Rice JRD Raskin MRD Rose HRD Rouda BSD Scott JSD Serrano BSD Sherman ASD Smith JSD Schakowsky ASD Schiff LSD Sánchez DSD Scott ASD Sires JSD Sarbanes JSD Speier GSD Sablan BSD Schneider ESD Swalwell DSD Soto TSD Suozzi MSD Scanlon DSD Shalala MSD Sherrill DTD Titus PTD Tonko MTD Takano NTD Torres RTD Tlaib LTD Trahan DTD Trone NVD Velázquez PVD Visclosky JVD Vargas MWD Waters DWD Wasserman Schultz PWD Welch FWD Wilson BWD Watson Coleman JWD Wexton JYD Yarmuth SLD Lee JGD Gottheimer CPD Pappas KPD Porter MVD Veasey SWD Wild CAD Axne JCD Castro PKR King HSD Stevens BTD Thompson AFD Finkenauer ASD Spanberger TCD Cox JHD Harder ECD Cleaver KHD Hill GSD Stanton CAD Allred ELD Luria KSD Schrier SDD Davids AKD Kim TSD Sewell LUD Underwood LFD Fletcher

190 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD).

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Feb 15, 2019

Assault Weapons Ban of 2019

This bill makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD).

The prohibition does not apply to a firearm that is (1) manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action; (2) permanently inoperable; (3) an antique; or (4) a rifle or shotgun specifically identified by make and model.

The bill also exempts from the prohibition the following, with respect to a SAW or LCAFD:

  • importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession related to certain law enforcement efforts, or authorized tests or experiments;
  • importation, sale, transfer, or possession related to securing nuclear materials; and
  • possession by a retired law enforcement officer.

The bill permits continued possession, sale, or transfer of a grandfathered SAW, which must be securely stored. A licensed gun dealer must conduct a background check prior to the sale or transfer of a grandfathered SAW between private parties.

The bill permits continued possession of, but prohibits sale or transfer of, a grandfathered LCAFD.

Newly manufactured LCAFDs must display serial number identification. Newly manufactured SAWs and LCAFDs must display the date of manufacture.

The bill requires law enforcement agencies to be notified when a prohibited person attempts to purchase a grandfathered SAW.

It also allows a state or local government to use Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program funds to compensate individuals who surrender a SAW or LCAFD under a buy-back program.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Assault Weapons Ban of 2019

Latest action (Feb 15, 2019): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement · Origin: House · Introduced: Feb 15, 2019

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.