Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act

Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act

This bill removes less-than-lethal projectile devices (e.g., certain TASERs) from regulation under the Gun Control Act.

The term less-than-lethal projectile device means a device that (1) is not designed or intended to expel (and may not be readily converted to discharge) commonly used ammunition or projectiles exceeding a velocity of 500 feet per second; (2) is designed and intended to be used in a manner not likely to cause death or serious bodily injury; and (3) does not accept (and cannot be readily modified to accept) an ammunition feeding device.

The bill also requires the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine whether a device satisfies the definition of a less-than-lethal projectile device within 90 days of a request.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2189 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2189

   To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in 
    technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2025

 Mr. Fitzgerald (for himself and Mr. Correa) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in 
    technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-
Escalate Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN LESS-THAN-LETHAL PROJECTILE DEVICES FROM 
              RESTRICTIONS UNDER TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE.

    (a) In General.--Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in the second sentence of paragraph (3), by inserting 
        ``or a less-than-lethal projectile device'' before the period; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(38)(A) The term `less-than-lethal projectile device' means a 
device that--
            ``(i) is not designed or intended to expel and may not be 
        readily converted to accept and discharge--
                    ``(I) ammunition commonly used in handguns, rifles, 
                or shotguns; or
                    ``(II) any other projectile at a velocity exceeding 
                500 feet per second;
            ``(ii) is designed and intended to be used in a manner that 
        is not likely to cause death or serious bodily injury; and
            ``(iii) does not accept, and is not able to be readily 
        modified to accept, an ammunition feeding device--
                    ``(I) loaded through the inside of a pistol grip; 
                or
                    ``(II) commonly used in semiautomatic firearms.
    ``(B) If a person requests that the Attorney General determine 
whether a device satisfies the definition of `less-than-lethal 
projectile device' under subparagraph (A), the Attorney General shall 
make the determination not later than 90 days after the date on which 
the Attorney General receives the device pursuant to the request.''.
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