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HS1FORHB154 • 2025

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GUN SAFETY EQUIPMENT.

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GUN SAFETY EQUIPMENT.

Firearms
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Gorman
Last action
2025-08-20
Official status
Signed 8/20/25
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GUN SAFETY EQUIPMENT.

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GUN SAFETY EQUIPMENT.

What This Bill Does

  • AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GUN SAFETY EQUIPMENT.
  • This Act provides immunity to nonprofit organizations who distribute new secure gun storage and safety devices to individuals so long as the devices are distributed in their original packaging and are unopened.
  • The nonprofit must provide gun safety pamphlets with the distribution of gun storage and safety devices.
  • This Act does not limit any liability on the part of the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer of the secure gun storage or safety device.

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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HA 1

1 • Jones Giltner

Defeated 5/20/25

Plain English: Legislation Document SPONSOR: Rep.

  • Legislation Document SPONSOR: Rep.
  • Jones Giltner HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 TO HOUSE SUBSTITUTE NO.
  • 1 FOR HOUSE BILL NO.

Bill History

  1. 2025-08-20 Delaware General Assembly

    Signed by Governor

  2. 2025-06-25 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO

  3. 2025-06-18 Delaware General Assembly

    Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits

  4. 2025-05-20 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  5. 2025-05-20 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Defeated By House. Votes: 15 YES 20 NO 3 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT

  6. 2025-05-20 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 7 NO 3 ABSENT

  7. 2025-05-20 Delaware General Assembly

    Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate

  8. 2025-05-14 Delaware General Assembly

    was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 154

Official Summary Text

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GUN SAFETY EQUIPMENT.
This Act provides immunity to nonprofit organizations who distribute new secure gun storage and safety devices to individuals so long as the devices are distributed in their original packaging and are unopened. The nonprofit must provide gun safety pamphlets with the distribution of gun storage and safety devices. This Act does not limit any liability on the part of the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer of the secure gun storage or safety device.
HS 1 to HB 154 clarifies that this Act applies to tax-exempt nonprofit organizations and law enforcement agencies. It also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

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Legislation Document

SPONSOR:

Rep. Gorman & Rep. Bush & Rep. Griffith & Rep. Romer & Sen. Lockman

Reps. Burns, Snyder-Hall, Heffernan; Sens. Sokola, Pinkney

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE NO. 1

FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 154

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GUN SAFETY EQUIPMENT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend Chapter 68, Title 16 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

Subchapter VIII. Immunity for Distribution of Secure Gun Storage or Safety Devices

§ 6860. Definition.

For purposes of this subchapter, “secure gun storage or safety device” means as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(34). A “secure gun storage or safety device” includes cable locks, trigger locks, or gun safes.

§ 6861. Distribution of secure gun storage or safety devices.

(a) A tax-exempt nonprofit organization or a law enforcement agency that distributes a new secure gun storage or safety device free of charge to an individual is not liable for civil damages arising out of any injury to person or property proximately caused by an alleged defect in the design, manufacturing, maintenance, or operation of the secure gun storage or safety device.

(b) Subsection (a) of this section only applies where the tax-exempt nonprofit organization or the law enforcement agency does all of the following:

(1) Distributes the secure gun storage or safety device in its original packaging and unopened.

(2) Provides to the recipient of the secure gun storage or safety device an information pamphlet about gun safety developed by a local or national gun safety organization or hospital.

(c) Nothing in this section is intended to limit any liability on the part of a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer of the secure gun storage or safety device.

SYNOPSIS

This Act provides immunity to nonprofit organizations who distribute new secure gun storage and safety devices to individuals so long as the devices are distributed in their original packaging and are unopened. The nonprofit must provide gun safety pamphlets with the distribution of gun storage and safety devices. This Act does not limit any liability on the part of the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer of the secure gun storage or safety device.

HS 1 to HB 154 clarifies that this Act applies to tax-exempt nonprofit organizations and law enforcement agencies. It also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.