H.R. 4060: Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021

117th Congress · introduced 2021-06-22 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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Where it came from: introduced 2021-06-22 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title

Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021

Plain summary

Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to designate the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing firearms, or importing or manufacturing ammunition, as a critical infrastructure sector. Additionally, the bill states that individuals who are employed by those entities are critical infrastructure workers. The term critical infrastructure means systems and assets, physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health and safety, or any combination of those matters.

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Second Amendment is Essential Act of 2021

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] · 37 cosponsors

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Scott Franklin (R-FL), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Tracey Mann (R-KS), Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Ralph Norman (R-SC), David G. Valadao (R-CA), Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Ted Budd (R-NC), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Andy Harris (R-MD), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Brian Babin (R-TX), John W. Rose (R-TN), Michael Guest (R-MS), James R. Baird (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Kat Cammack (R-FL)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] reported raising $724,106 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117hr4060.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr>

Record fed-us-cong117-hr4060 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117