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House Judiciary Committee Prepares to Advance Key Second Amendment Legislation

Friday, March 21, 2025

House Judiciary Committee Prepares to Advance Key Second Amendment Legislation

The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH-04), is planning to hold a legislative markup on March 25, 2025 at 10 am EST.  The Committee will be considering several bills during this markup, two of which are of crucial importance to law-abiding gun owners. A committee markup is often a critical step in advancing legislation to the floor of the U.S. House for passage.

The first piece of legislation up for consideration, and the NRA’s top priority, is H.R. 38, the "Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act" introduced by Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC-09).  This bipartisan legislation would provide nationwide reciprocity for concealed carry license holders and for residents of Constitutional Carry states. This legislation currently has 177 cosponsors in the U.S. House.

“The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed an individual’s fundamental right to keep and bear arms,” said John Commerford, Executive Director of NRA-ILA. "Congress should now ensure that the right to self-defense does not end at a state line. NRA applauds and thanks Representative Hudson for his longstanding and unwavering leadership in the fight for right-to-carry reciprocity.”

Another bill being considered by the Committee is H.R. 2184, the "Firearm Due Process Protection Act" introduced by Representative Tom Emmer (R-MN-06).  This legislation provides legal recourse for law-abiding Americans who were improperly denied the ability to legally purchase a firearm due to administrative errors during a background check and increases congressional oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It is cosponsored by 14 of Emmer’s Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives.

“Year after year, thousands of Americans are erroneously denied their constitutional rights due to clerical errors in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS),” said John Commerford, Executive Director of the NRA-ILA. “On behalf of our millions of members and gun owners across America, we applaud Representative Tom Emmer for the introduction of this commonsense legislation which will provide law-abiding Americans a course of action to correct these errors in a timely manner while at the same time holding the FBI and its NICS system accountable to Congress.”

NRA-ILA would like to thank Chairman Jordan alongside his pro-Second Amendment House Judiciary colleagues for calling this legislative markup on these two critical Second Amendment bills.

NRA members can watch the House Judiciary Committee’s legislative markup by clicking the following link. https://www.youtube.com/@USHouseJudiciaryGOP/featured. And NRA-ILA will continue to update you as these bills make their way through the legislative process.

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