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Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act
To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing of armed career criminals.
Summary
This bill would amend the Armed Career Criminal Act to establish enhanced mandatory minimum penalties for felon-in-possession of firearms offenses. Under the bill, anyone who knowingly violates the felon-in-possession law and has three or more previous serious felony convictions would face a mandatory sentence of not less than 15 years and not more than 30 years imprisonment, with no option for suspension of sentence or probation. The bill defines "serious felony conviction" as any felony punishable by at least 10 years imprisonment, or a group of convictions imposed in the same proceeding with a combined sentence of at least 10 years. The increased penalties would apply to offenses committed after the bill's enactment and do not provide grounds to challenge previously imposed sentences.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Kustoff, David [R-TN-8] (R-TN)
Actions (2)
- Jul 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Jul 10, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 10, 2025
Mr. Kustoff introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing of armed career criminals.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act”.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT.
Section 924 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking “(a)(6), (g), (h),
(i), (j), or (o) of section 922” and inserting “(a)(6), (d),
(h), (i), (j), or (o) of section 922, or, except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, subsection (g) of section 922”; and
(2) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
“(e)(1) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(g) and has 3 or more previous serious felony convictions for offenses committed on occasions different from one another shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 15 years and not more than 30 years, and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court shall not suspend the sentence of, or grant a probationary sentence to, such person with respect to the conviction under section 922(g).
“(2) In this subsection—
“(A) the term ‘offense punishable by imprisonment for a statutory maximum term of not less than 10 years’ includes an offense (without regard to the application of any sentencing guideline, statutory criterion, or judgment that may provide for a shorter period of imprisonment within the statutory sentencing range) for which the statute provides for a range in the period of imprisonment that may be imposed at sentencing the maximum term of which is not less than 10 years; and
“(B) the term ‘serious felony conviction’ means—
“(i) any conviction by a court that, at the time of sentencing, was a felony offense punishable by imprisonment for a statutory maximum term of not less than 10 years; or
“(ii) any group of convictions for which a court imposed in the same proceeding or in consolidated proceedings a total term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years, regardless of how many years of that total term the defendant served in custody.”.
SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY.
(a) In General.—The amendments made by this Act shall apply to any offense committed after the date of enactment of this Act by an individual who, on the date on which the offense is committed, has 3 or more previous serious felony convictions, as defined in subsection (e) of section 924 of title 18, United States Code, as amended by this Act.
(b) Rule of Construction.—This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not be construed to create any right to challenge a sentence imposed under subsection (e) of section 924 of title 18, United States Code. <all>
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