Lets federal law enforcement officers buy their agency's retired service firearms

§1What it does

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This bill would direct the General Services Administration to create a program, within a year, letting federal law enforcement officers buy the retired firearm that their agency issued to them.^2,3,4 An officer would have to be in good standing with the agency and make the purchase within six months after the firearm is retired, and the price would be its salvage value, based on its age and condition.⁴ Amendments adopted on the House floor widened the bill from handguns to retired firearms generally (the bill's definition leaves out certain machine guns), made retired federal officers eligible, and replaced fair market value with salvage value, meaning an item's value at the end of its useful life, as the price.^3,4

§2Status

§3How Congress voted

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