37 total bills, 9 anti-gun bills,
15 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Connecticut Firearm Legislation
37 total bills, 9 anti-gun bills,
15 pro-gun bills for this session
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note: Connecticut does not carry over legislation from session to session
Title: An Act Limiting Orders Related To Firearms And Ammunition During A Civil Preparedness Or Public Health Emergency.
Description: To prohibit the Governor or any municipality from restricting lawful possession of a firearm or ammunition during a civil preparedness or public health emergency.
Last Action: Change of Reference, Senate to Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 22, 2021
Title: An Act Authoring The Carrying Of Firearms In State Parks.
Description: To allow persons who hold firearms permits to carry firearms in state parks.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Environment
Last Action Date: January 12, 2021
Title: An Act Allowing Off-duty Police Officers To Carry Firearms Used In The Performance Of Official Duties On School Grounds.
Description: To allow off-duty police officers to carry firearms used in the performance of official duties on school grounds.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 15, 2021
Title: An Act Authorizing Certain Federal Law Enforcement Officers To Be Able To Perform Certain Functions Under The Laws Relating To Firearms.
Description: To include active and retired or separated federal law enforcement officers in certain laws relating to firearms.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 22, 2021
Title: An Act Prohibiting The Regulation Of Firearms By Municipalities.
Description: To prohibit municipalities from adopting ordinances and regulations to regulate firearms.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development
Last Action Date: January 22, 2021
Title: An Act Funding The State-wide Firearms Trafficking Task Force By Reducing Citizens' Election Program Grants.
Description: To provide funding to the state-wide firearms trafficking task force.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Appropriations
Last Action Date: January 25, 2021
Title: An Act Authorizing The Carrying Of Pistols In State Forests By Pistol Permit Holders.
Description: To authorize the carrying of pistols in state forests by pistol permit holders for the purpose of self-defense.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Environment
Last Action Date: January 25, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning The Purchase Of Long Guns And Attendant Ammunition And Magazines By Persons Possessing A Hunting License And A Valid State-issued Photo Identification.
Description: To allow persons who hold a hunting license and a state-issued photo identification to purchase long guns and ammunition.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Environment
Last Action Date: January 25, 2021
Title: An Act Allowing Off-duty Law Enforcement Officers To Carry Firearms On School Grounds.
Description: To allow off-duty law enforcement officers to carry firearms on school grounds.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Education
Last Action Date: January 26, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning The Employment Of Armed School Security Officers In Public Schools.
Description: To allow for the employment of armed school resource officers and school security officers in public schools.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Education
Last Action Date: January 26, 2021
Title: An Act Establishing A Tax On Ammunition.
Description: To establish a tax on the purchase of ammunition for sale at retail to increase funding for gun violence prevention programs.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding
Last Action Date: January 26, 2021
Title: An Act Allowing Off-duty Police Officers To Carry Firearms Used In The Performance Of Official Duties On School Grounds.
Description: To allow off-duty police officers to carry firearms used in the performance of official duties on school grounds.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Education
Last Action Date: January 27, 2021
Title: An Act Prohibiting The Regulation Of Firearms By Municipalities.
Description: To prohibit the regulation of firearms by municipalities.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development
Last Action Date: January 27, 2021
Title: An Act Extending The Term Of Ammunition Certificates.
Description: To extend the term of an ammunition certificate.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security
Last Action Date: January 27, 2021
Title: An Act Funding The State-wide Firearms Trafficking Task Force By Reducing Citizens' Election Program Grants.
Description: To provide funding to the state-wide firearms trafficking task force.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Appropriations
Last Action Date: January 28, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning The Municipal Regulation Of Firearms.
Description: To prohibit the regulation of firearms by municipalities.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development
Last Action Date: January 28, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning The Use Of Firearms By Convicted Stalkers.
Description: To prohibit the purchase, transfer or possession and use of a firearm by an individual who has been convicted of stalking, threatening or harassing behaviors.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security
Last Action Date: January 28, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning Staffing Levels At The Special Licensing And Firearms Unit Within The Department Of Emergency Services And Public Protection.
Description: To increase staffing levels at the Special Licensing and Firearms Unit within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection in order to ensure that firearms dealers and their customers are better served.
Last Action: Change of Reference, Senate to Committee on Appropriations
Last Action Date: February 8, 2021
Title: An Act Creating A Firearms Self-restriction Registry.
Description: To create a Connecticut No Gun Registry, which would allow a person to register to restrict his or her ability to purchase or possess firearms in this state.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security
Last Action Date: January 28, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning Erased Criminal Records And The Review Of Firearm Permit Applications.
Description: To permit chiefs of police and the Board of Firearms Permit Examiners to access arrest records resulting in a nolle in the case of a domestic violence offense in order to determine an applicant's suitability to hold a permit to carry a pistol or revolver.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security
Last Action Date: January 28, 2021
Title: An Act Preventing Community Gun Violence.
Description: To establish an initiative to prevent community gun violence.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security
Last Action Date: January 28, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning Transfer Of Assault Weapons And Large Capacity Magazines.
Description: To allow the legal transfer of an assault weapon possessed under a certificate of possession and large capacity magazines possessed under a declaration of possession between people who already legally possess such weapons or magazines.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 29, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning Target Pistols Designed For Use In The Olympic Games.
Description: To exclude from the definition of "assault weapon" any rimfire target pistols that are designed for use in target shooting events at the Olympic games.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 29, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning The Unlawful Discharge Of A Firearm.
Description: To curb the number of shootings in inner cities.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 29, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning Risk Protection Orders Or Warrants And Disqualifiers For Firearm Permits And Eligibility Certificates.
Description: To (1) establish a risk protection order and to expand upon the list of persons who may be complainants for purposes of issuance of a risk warrant; (2) require the Judicial Branch to develop and make available a form and explanatory materials to persons applying for a risk protection order; (3) disqualify persons subject to a standing risk protection order from possessing firearms or ammunition; and (4) penalize any such possession.
Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Last Action Date: June 24, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning Electronic Defense Weapons.
Description: To remove the prohibition on possession of nonlethal electronic defense weapons.
Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Last Action Date: June 10, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning Domestic Violence And Criminal Justice Reforms.
Description: To make various changes relating to (1) restraining orders, (2) family violence victim advocates, (3) cash bonds, (4) U Nonimmigrant Status, (5) social services for domestic violence victims, (6) insurance discrimination, (7) counsel for people seeking restraining orders, and (8) crimes based on bigotry or bias.
Last Action: Public Hearing 03/24
Last Action Date: March 19, 2021
Title: An Act Limiting Multiple Handgun Purchases In A Thirty-day Period.
Description: To prohibit anyone from purchasing more than one handgun within any thirty-day period.
Last Action: Change of Reference, House to Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 22, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning Voting Rights.
Description: To (1) implement several changes designed to increase access to absentee ballots, (2) minimize the number of absentee ballots that are rejected, (3) improve timely tabulation of absentee ballots, and (4) prohibit the presence of firearms in or near polling places.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Last Action Date: January 15, 2021
Title: An Act Expanding The State's Red Flag Law.
Description: To expand the coverage and applicability of risk protection orders to allow a family member, social worker, health care worker, clergy or other concerned community member to notify the court directly about a person who is in possession of a firearm and has threatened to harm herself, himself or another person and ask the court to issue an order to remove firearms from the possession of the person issuing such threats or committing acts of violence.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 22, 2021
Title: An Act Permitting Law Enforcement Officers To Possess Firearms While On School Property.
Description: To allow active and retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons on school property in accordance with the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Education
Last Action Date: January 25, 2021
Title: An Act Funding The State-wide Firearms Trafficking Task Force By Reducing Citizens' Election Program Grants.
Description: To provide funding to the state-wide firearms trafficking task force.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Appropriations
Last Action Date: January 26, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning The Defense Of A Person's Home, Motor Vehicle Or Business.
Description: To establish a rebuttable presumption in a self-defense claim that, when a person believes it necessary to use deadly force to repel an intruder, such belief is a reasonable belief.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 26, 2021
Title: An Act Prohibiting The Municipal Regulation Of Firearms.
Description: To prohibit municipalities from adopting ordinances and regulations to regulate firearms.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development
Last Action Date: January 27, 2021
Title: An Act Permitting Persons To Carry Handguns In State Parks And State Forests.
Description: To prevent the state from restricting persons from carrying handguns in state parks and state forests for the purpose of self-defense.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Environment
Last Action Date: January 29, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning The Theft Of Firearms From Vehicles.
Description: To prevent the theft of firearms from vehicles and save lives.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 29, 2021
Title: An Act Concerning Emergency Certificates Issued By Physicians And Firearm Possession And Sales.
Description: To add temporary commitments under physician's emergency certifications to any registry of admissions for patients with psychiatric disabilities that is maintained by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and reviewed when determining the suitability of a person to purchase or possess a firearm.
Last Action: Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security
Last Action Date: January 29, 2021
