{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-joins-legislation-to-ban-handgun-rosters", "Crapo Joins Legislation to Ban Handgun Rosters", "2024-09-25", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C..--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) to introduce the Modern Firearms Safety Act, which would prohibit states from enforcing handgun rosters. These lists of pre-approved handguns require manufacturers to include costly features like microstamping, loaded chamber indicators and magazine disconnect mechanisms on firearms, preventing law-abiding citizens from purchasing the firearm of their choice.\n\n\u201cThose on the Left continue to use every creative avenue possible to stifle Second Amendment rights and restrict gun ownership for law-abiding citizens,\u201d said Crapo. \u201cThese practices must stop.\u201d\n\n\u201cUnconstitutional handgun rosters create unnecessary, burdensome requirements for firearm manufacturers while undermining the Second Amendment,\u201d said Risch. \u201cThe Modern Firearms Safety Act stops Democrats arbitrary handgun catalogs and protects law-abiding gun owners\u2019 right to bear arms.\u201d\n\nSeveral states, including California, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., have recently enacted unconstitutional handgun rosters. A 2024 federal district court ruling found California\u2019s handgun roster requirements unconstitutional.\n\nCrapo and Risch are joined by U.S. Senators Mike Braun (R-Indiana), Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia), Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota), Steve Daines (R-Montana), John Hoeven (R-North Dakota), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) and Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) in introducing the legislation.\n\n\u201cBlue states look for every avenue to ban guns for law-abiding citizens,\u201d said Cassidy. \u201cRequiring unnecessary and imaginary modifications that don\u2019t improve safety is just another tactic out of this playbook. The Second Amendment is a Constitutional right that shouldn\u2019t be infringed upon just because of the state in which you reside.\u201d\n\n\u201cTrying to impose unnecessary and overly stringent requirements on what features handguns must have is a blatant attempt to strip away core constitutional rights,\u201d said Cornyn. \u201cThis legislation ensures law-abiding gun owners in Texas can continue to exercise their Second Amendment right in a safe and responsible way without being subject to impractical restrictions.\u201d\n\n\u201cOur Founding Fathers were clear\u2014the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,\u201d said Daines. \u201cForcing Americans to outfit their firearms with onerous and costly features is a clear attempt to undermine the Second Amendment and law-abiding citizens\u2019 constitutional rights, and it must stop.\u201d\n\n\u201cI am proud to join Senator Risch in our fight against the Democrats\u2019 never-ending attack on our Second Amendment rights and our constitutional freedoms,\u201d Marshall said. \u201cThe Modern Firearm Safety Act will end the unconstitutional gun grab currently underway in far-Left states like California, New York, Maryland, and Massachusetts. Our legislation rightfully blocks Democrats from enforcing illegal handgun roster requirements designed to target law-abiding Americans.\u201d\n\n\"This commonsense legislation safeguards the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens by eliminating unnecessary barriers to purchase firearms,\" said Tillis. \"I am proud to support responsible gun owners by introducing this legislation, which aims to prevent government overreach and uphold our constitutional freedoms.\"\n\nThe Modern Firearms Safety Act has received support from the Congressional Sportsmen\u2019s Foundation, National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and National Rifle Association (NRA).\n\n?###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-joins-legislation-to-ban-handgun-rosters"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.010014209896326, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}