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Wyoming committee advances firearm-hold-agreement bill with NFA exclusion; passes 13–1
Summary
A Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs interim committee passed bill draft 25LSO0082 establishing firearm hold agreements that shield holders from civil liability in most returns; the panel added an amendment to exclude National Firearms Act items and approved the measure 13–1.
A Wyoming legislative interim committee on Tuesday passed a bill draft to create statutory protection for people who temporarily hold another person’s firearm under an agreed “firearm hold agreement.” Committee members approved 25LSO0082 as amended by a 13–1 roll-call vote.
Talise Hanson, staff attorney with the Legislative Service Office, walked the panel through the draft, which would add a new Wyoming statute creating firearm hold agreements, define that term and provide that “no cause of action shall arise against a person for returning a firearm to a firearm owner at the termination of a firearm hold agreement,” subject to exceptions for breach of contract or unlawful conduct. The draft sets an effective date for filings and agreements on or after July…
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