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Attorney General's office briefs Judiciary panel on fixing firearm-surrender compliance
Summary
Carolyn Hansen of the Attorney General's Office told the House Judiciary Committee a working group's recommendations focus on implementation gaps—tracking, victim notification and vetted storage options—rather than new firearm restrictions; the panel will review implementing language after the Senate advances companion bills.
Carolyn Hansen of the Attorney General's Office told the House Judiciary Committee that recommendations from a working group set up under Act 64 (2025) would not create new firearm restrictions but would address a failing process for enforcing firearm-surrender orders. "There is no new firearm restrictions coming out of this group. Okay?" Hansen said, adding the effort is about improving the process so prohibited people actually lose access to firearms.
Hansen said the group met repeatedly between July and November and included judges, prosecutors, state police, victim-service providers and firearms industry stakeholders. She described three storage pathways courts currently use when an order requires surrender: law enforcement custody, storage with a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL), or an approved third…
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