Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act

Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act

This bill expands the categories of persons who are prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm or ammunition.

Specifically, it adds the following new categories of prohibited persons:

• persons convicted of a crime of violence in the most recent 10-year period;
• persons under age 25 who have been adjudicated as having committed an offense that would have been a crime of violence if committed by an adult;
• persons convicted, during a consecutive 3-year period in the most recent 10-year period, of two separate offenses involving drug or alcohol possession or distribution; and
• persons convicted of stalking.