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H.R. 4052: Keep Americans Safe Act

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H.R. 4052: Keep Americans Safe Act

115th Congress · introduced 2017-10-12 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-10-12 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Keep Americans Safe Act

Plain summary

Keep Americans Safe Act This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime to knowingly transfer, possess, import, or bring into the United States a large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD). It permits the continued possession of a grandfathered LCAFD. Additionally, the bill does not prohibit, with respect to an LCAFD: manufacture, transfer, or possession related to certain law enforcement efforts, or authorized tests or experiments; transfer or possession related to securing nuclear materials; and possession by a retired law enforcement officer. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both. Newly manufactured LCAFDs must display serial number identification that clearly shows the device was manufactured after this bill's enactment.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Keep Americans Safe Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5] · 109 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Dina Titus (D-NV), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), James A. Himes (D-CT), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), André Carson (D-IN), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Mike Quigley (D-IL) and 49 more.

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Authorization
A law that creates or continues a government program and says what it may do, often with a suggested spending ceiling. An authorization alone does not provide money; a separate appropriation does.
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr4052 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115