Multiple firearm-related laws are going into effect for 2025 in states across the nation.
Take a look at the comprehensive list below of a handful of firearm-related state laws going into effect.
California
In September of last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a series of anti-gun laws, including:
- AB 1483 – “Strengthening” a rule against applying for more than one handgun in a 30-day period. The bill removes an exemption for private party transactions. This law is currently facing court battles and the California DOJ will not enforce it while a court injunction is in place.
- AB 1598 – Requiring firearm dealers to provide consumers with a pamphlet covering the reasons and risks for firearm ownership.
- AB 2917 – Guides courts to expand considerations for a gun violence restraining order to include threats of violence.
Colorado
- HB 24-1348 – Requires any handgun stored inside an unoccupied vehicle must be in a locked, hard-sided container that is out of plain view. Vehicle must also be locked, with some exceptions
- HB 24-1174 – Coloradans who want to apply for a concealed carry permit will be required to complete an eight-hour training class, which includes a written exam and a live-fire exercise. Also prohibits anyone who was convicted of certain misdemeanor offenses from obtaining a concealed carry permit, if those offenses happened within five years of the application. (takes effect July 1, 2025)
New Hampshire
- HB 1186 – Strengthens privacy protections around gun laws by prohibiting the use of specific merchant category codes for credit cards.
- HB 1336 – Bars employers from forbidding employees from storing guns in locked vehicles.
Kentucky
- HB 357 – Prohibits financial institutions or its agents from requiring or incentivizing the use of a firearms merchant category code and prohibits any person, governmental or private entity from knowingly or willfully keeping any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record, or registry of the owners of those firearms created or maintained through the use of a firearms code.
Minnesota
- HF 5247 – Bans owning or possessing binary triggers.
Delaware
- HB 201 – Makes it a felony offense to possess a firearm on university campuses.
New York
- S6649/A2882 – Requires firearms dealers and gunsmiths to post warnings at sites where firearms are sold and distribute warnings at the time of sale. These warning must state that “firearms increase the risk of suicide, death during domestic disputes and/or unintentional death to children.
- S3340 – Requires extreme risk protection orders (“Red Flag” Gun Confiscation) to be reported to the statewide computerized registry of orders of protection and certain warrants of arrest.
