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HB0160 • 2024

Protect Firearms Rights Act.

AN ACT relating to the protection of constitutional rights; declaring legislative authority; prohibiting the implementation or enforcement of an extreme risk protection order; preempting local law; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Firearms
Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Jennings
Last action
2024-02-16
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2024

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text does not specify the exact penalties or enforcement mechanisms for violating this act.

Protect Firearms Rights Act

The bill aims to protect gun rights by prohibiting the implementation or enforcement of extreme risk protection orders and preempting local laws that conflict with this act.

What This Bill Does

  • Creates a law called the Protect Firearms Rights Act.
  • Prohibits anyone in Wyoming from implementing or enforcing extreme risk protection orders, which restrict someone's access to firearms if they are seen as dangerous.
  • Preempts any local laws that conflict with this new state law about gun rights.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People in Wyoming who might be subject to an extreme risk protection order.
  • Local governments and courts in Wyoming.
  • State officials and agencies in Wyoming.

Terms To Know

Extreme Risk Protection Order
An order from a court that restricts someone's access to firearms if they are seen as dangerous to themselves or others, but does not include orders for protection or involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass and was not considered for introduction.
  • It would have taken effect on July 1, 2024, but since it did not pass, this date is no longer relevant.

Bill History

  1. 2024-02-16 House

    H Did not Consider for Introduction

  2. 2024-02-12 House

    H Received for Introduction

  3. 2024-02-12 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
24LSO-0119
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0119
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0160

Protect Firearms Rights Act.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Jennings, Heiner, Knapp, Locke, Neiman, Penn, Rodriguez-Williams, Slagle, Styvar, Tarver, Trujillo and Winter and Senator(s) Hicks, Salazar and Steinmetz

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the protection of constitutional rights; declaring legislative authority; prohibiting the implementation or enforcement of an extreme risk protection order; preempting local law; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 9
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301 and 9
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302 are created to read:

ARTICLE 3
PROTECT FIREARMS RIGHTS ACT

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301.

Short title.

This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Protect Firearms Rights Act."

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302.

Prohibiting the implementation or enforcement of an extreme risk protection act; preempting local law; definitions.

(a)

For purposes of this act:

(i)

"Extreme risk protection order" means any executive order, written order or warrant issued by a court or signed by a magistrate or other officer of the court, for which the primary or intended purpose is to prevent a specific person, deemed to be a danger to themselves or others, from accessing firearms or ammunition by doing one (1) or more of the following:

(A)

Prohibiting a specific person from owning, possessing, using, purchasing, manufacturing or receiving a firearm or ammunition;

(B)

Removing a firearm or ammunition from the possession or control of a specific person or requiring a specific person to surrender any firearms or ammunition the person owns, possesses or controls.

(ii)

"Extreme risk protection order" shall not mean and does not include an order of protection issued pursuant to W.S. 7
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3
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506 et seq., W.S. 35
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101 et seq. or an order for involuntary hospitalization of a mentally ill person issued pursuant to W.S. 25
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10
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101 et seq.;

(iii)

"This act" means W.S. 9
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14
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301 and 9
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302.

(b)

This act shall preempt any local law, ordinance or regulation regarding an extreme risk protection order or any other law, ordinance or regulation that may conflict with any provision of this act.

(c)

The state of Wyoming and all political subdivisions of this state are prohibited from using any personnel or funds appropriated by the legislature of the state of Wyoming or any other source of funds that originated within or outside the state of Wyoming to implement any statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or judicial finding that would have the effect of enforcing an extreme risk protection order against or upon a resident of the state.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2024.

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