FIRE Act

Key Points

• The FIRE Act would ban the federal government from creating or enforcing any rules that limit how many rounds a gun magazine can hold. Federal officers and employees would be prohibited from enforcing capacity-based magazine restrictions.
• The bill would also override all state and local laws that restrict magazine capacity. Any existing state or city ban on high-capacity magazines would lose legal force.
• The bill defines a "firearm magazine" broadly to cover both fixed and detachable devices that store and feed ammunition into a firearm, and defines "capacity" as the number of rounds the magazine can store.
• If signed into law, the changes would take effect 30 days after enactment, giving a brief transition window before all magazine capacity restrictions are nullified nationwide.