Congress moves to strip states of power to limit firearm magazine size
H.R. 4546 — FIRE Act · Filed by Tony Wied (R-WI) · 10 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 17, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill amends federal firearms law to prohibit the federal government from regulating firearm magazine capacity and voids all state and local laws that limit magazine capacity. It defines 'firearm magazine' and 'capacity' for statutory purposes and takes effect 30 days after enactment.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is the removal of all government capacity restrictions on firearm magazines — a straightforward deregulatory measure. It does not create new rights or protections; it eliminates existing regulatory authority and voids existing laws.
What the text implies
- Preempts state and local democratic processes: voters in any state or locality can no longer use ballot initiatives, referenda, or local ordinances to set magazine-capacity limits, even if a majority supports such restrictions.
- Eliminates a tool cited by law enforcement and public-health researchers as relevant to casualty reduction in mass-shooting incidents; removes the ability to calibrate this tool by jurisdiction based on local preferences.
- Creates a uniform national floor of zero restrictions, preventing any state from adopting stricter rules than the federal baseline — a form of regulatory preemption that runs counter to federalism principles allowing states to set higher safety standards.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill removes all legal restrictions on firearm magazine capacity at federal, state, and local levels. Citizens lose the ability to use democratic processes (voting, ballot initiatives, local ordinances) to set magazine-size limits, a public-safety tool used by many jurisdictions to reduce casualties in mass-shooting scenarios. The bill transfers power from elected representatives to firearm owners without offsetting public-safety measures.
Who stands to gain
- firearm and ammunition manufacturers
- magazine manufacturers and distributors
Named in the bill
Federal Government, State and local governments, 18 USC §926, 18 USC §927, 18 USC §921(a)
Where it stands
10 cosponsors: 10 Republicans.
- Jul 17, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 17, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 4 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $1,419,548 in lobbying spend. A filing names 96 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 41% of bills with at least one filing.
Tony Wied, the sponsor, reported $589,000 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- National Rifle Association of America — $990,000 on 2 filings
- National Association for Gun Rights — $429,548 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 22, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,365 characters) on Aug 15, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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