A bill to amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to remove the exclusion of pistols, revolvers, and other firearms from the definition of consumer product in order to permit the issuance for safety standards for such articles by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

2026-04-30

This bill would allow the Consumer Product Safety Commission to set and enforce safety standards for firearms like pistols and revolvers, which are currently excluded from the agency's authority. Currently, firearms are not regulated as consumer products, meaning the CPSC cannot establish rules about their design or safety features the way it does for other products. The change would affect gun manufacturers and potentially gun owners by bringing firearms under the same safety oversight as other consumer goods.