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Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act

To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing of armed career criminals.

Introduced Jul 10, 2025

Latest action (Jul 10, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Issues
Criminal Justice

Summary

The bill amends the Armed Career Criminal Act to establish mandatory minimum sentences for felons in possession of firearms. It requires that anyone with three or more previous serious felony convictions who violates the felon-in-possession statute shall be sentenced to between 15 and 30 years in prison, with no suspension of sentence or probation allowed. The bill defines "serious felony conviction" as any single felony punishable by at least 10 years imprisonment, or multiple felonies in the same proceeding totaling at least 10 years. The amendments apply to offenses committed after the bill's enactment.

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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 10, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
  2. Jul 10, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 10, 2025

Mrs. Blackburn (for herself and Mr. Cotton) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 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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