YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyWorkers & JobsCivil LibertiesCriminal Justice & Due ProcessCorporate BenefitsHigh-Earner BenefitsEnvironmentTransparency & AccountabilityTargeted & Unrelated ProvisionsGun LawsNew federal ban on posting online files that let a 3D printer make a gun
Civil Liberties
The ban limits what anyone may share online, even computer code, not just what gun sellers do. Congress says in the bill it does not mean to limit free speech, only to stop guns that cannot be traced.
Gun Laws
It would be against federal law to share files online, on purpose, that set up a 3D printer to make a gun. Files that finish a gun from an unfinished frame or receiver count too.
More about this bill
Posting computer files online that let a 3D printer make a gun would become illegal under federal gun law. The ban covers design files or other code that can set up a 3D printer or similar machine to make a gun. It also covers files that finish a gun from an unfinished frame or receiver. It applies to anyone who shares such files on purpose over the internet. The bill adds this ban to the main federal list of illegal gun acts. That list has no rule on gun design files today. Congress says the goal is to stop guns with no serial numbers, which police cannot trace. The bill does not change who may own a gun. The ban covers sharing the files, not owning a 3D printer.
Congressional Summary
3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2025This bill makes it unlawful to intentionally publish digital instructions that can automatically program a three-dimensional printer or similar device to produce or complete a firearm from an unfinished frame or receiver.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-06-25
- Date Added
- 2026-10-22
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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