Bill would stop lawsuits against gun makers and sellers.
H.R. 9298 — Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act · Filed by Derek Schmidt (R-KS) · 111 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 11, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill stops all gun violence lawsuits already filed in court. It makes it harder to sue gun makers and sellers. Gun companies could move cases to federal court. The bill also blocks states from making their own gun liability laws.
Who it affects
People hurt by guns and families of shooting victims lose the right to sue. Gun makers, gun sellers, ammunition makers, and ammunition sellers gain protection from lawsuits.
One thing to notice
All pending lawsuits would end immediately. Families in court now would lose their cases without a chance to present evidence.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
111 cosponsors: 111 Republicans.
- Jun 11, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 11, 2026 — 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 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $2,530,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 58 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Derek Schmidt, who sponsored the bill, received $526,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Shooting Sports Foundation — $1,990,000 in 1 report
- National Rifle Association of America — $540,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- federal court — a court run by the U.S. government, not by a state.
- pending lawsuits — cases that are still going on in court and not yet finished.
- gun liability laws — state laws that say gun makers and sellers can be sued for harm.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 9, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 Jun 2026 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 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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