As the calendar flips to 2025, a number of new gun laws are set to take effect across the United States, some strengthening gun rights protections and some simply eroding them. Here’s a look at some of the more notable ones as reported by USA Today that are taking effect.
No Surprise, More Gun Restrictions in California
California remains at the forefront of restrictive gun policies with several new laws going into effect. Among them:
- AB 1483 strengthens the existing one-handgun-per-30-days rule by removing exemptions for private party transactions. However, enforcement is on hold due to ongoing court battles. This legal uncertainty offers a glimmer of hope for gun owners who view the law as an unnecessary limitation.
- AB 1598 requires firearm dealers to distribute pamphlets warning of firearm ownership risks, such as suicide and accidental injury. Critics argue this measure stigmatizes gun ownership rather than addressing root causes of violence.
- AB 2917 expands criteria for gun violence restraining orders to include hate-based threats. While framed as a public safety measure, concerns remain about potential misuse of these orders to infringe on lawful gun owners’ rights.
These laws reflect a continued push by California lawmakers to tighten restrictions, but they also face significant legal and grassroots opposition.
Colorado: Stricter Storage Rules and Concealed Carry Requirements
Colorado’s, or should we say Colofornia’s, new law mandates that handguns stored in unoccupied vehicles must be secured in locked, hard-sided containers out of sight, and the vehicle itself must be locked. Critics note this law could inadvertently put gun owners at greater risk by creating logistical challenges for lawful self-defense.
Additionally, starting July 1, 2025, concealed carry applicants will need to complete an eight-hour training course, including a live-fire component. While training is always valuable, some see these requirements as another hurdle discouraging lawful concealed carry.
New Hampshire: Expanding Gun Rights
In stark contrast to the more oppressive anti-gun states, New Hampshire is bolstering Second Amendment protections with new laws effective Jan. 1.
- HB 1186 prohibits the use of merchant category codes (MCCs) to track firearm-related purchases, safeguarding privacy for gun owners.
- HB 1336 ensures employees can securely store firearms in locked vehicles without employer interference.
Efforts to introduce more restrictive gun laws, such as reporting mental health information to federal background checks, failed in the legislature. New Hampshire’s actions reflect a strong pro-gun stance, even amid calls for tighter controls following a high-profile shooting in 2023.
Kentucky: Shielding Gun Owners’ Privacy
Like New Hampshire, Kentucky joins a growing list of states enacting laws to prohibit the use of MCCs for gun retailers, a policy backed by the NRA. The ban takes effect in 2025, aiming to protect gun owners from potential financial discrimination while reinforcing privacy rights.
New York and Minnesota: More Restrictions
Meanwhile, New York’s new measures include mandatory warning signs at gun dealerships alerting potential buyers to the inherent dangers of firearms in the home (which is none if you adhere to gun safety practices) and a statewide registry for extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), expanding the state’s already restrictive landscape.
Minnesota’s ban on binary triggers also goes into effect, further limiting firearm modifications. Such measures are seen by many as part of a broader agenda to incrementally restrict gun ownership.
The new year will be no different than others as state legislatures are set to push more gun laws with Democratic majority houses pushing more gun control and Republican-led houses pushing more freedom. Check back with TTAG frequently to see what news is coming down the line … and more importantly, what may affect you.
Minnesota, where it’s illegal to define people as binary, and now triggers enjoy the same protections.
They now have their #1 wacko back at the helm so likely an increase in dimwit laws to come in 2025
NOLA 2025. RIP.
What a sad way to start the New Year.
We’ll may never be allowed to know the true motive.
Sorry for the horrid grammar.
Workplace violence? Perhaps he worked out of his vehicle?
Right, it’ll remain a huge mystery decades from now. 🙄
I would bet a year’s pay that the Religion of
PeaceViolence inspired the attacker’s “peaceful” exchange with the community.‘Shamsud Din Jabbar’ – sure sounds like another militant Amishman to me.
Close, but “Jabbar” is an old line Mennonite name according to Google.
And yes, I double checked it. CNN confirms.
A medical condition known as “spontaneous jihadi syndrome”.
May his 72 virgins be species bovine.
Or even better, Sus domesticus.
… or even Better better – WILD boar, big, mean, fat ones with sharp tusks, in an updated mashup of the greek tale of Prometheus.
😀
Ammoland has several videos of the terrorist attack in NOLA.
Clearly a result of LA’s weak vehicle control laws. Stricter regulations before anyone can buy or operate a vehicle and a ban on assault trucks would prevent such tragedies.
But at least he was carbon free (a rented EV F150).
Using progressive logic: if guns cause (inspire) mass shootings, then electric vehicles must cause vehicular homicides.
Texas tags and an EV.
It’s the Lithium Pipeline from states without vehicular control into safer states that actually control their pleb… *checks notes* “citizens”.
Ah,,, we’re all safer now! (sarc)
Serious questions because I have no idea: are they required to hand out pamphlets when they sell state legal pot? Are they required to have warning posters in their stores? Are there safe storage laws regarding your weed?
I’d guess that by extension of the binary trigger ban, it’s now illegal to light both ends of a joint here as of today.
So far as I’m aware the answers are as follows:
No, no, yes in some cases. I’m fairly sure there’s some variance from state to state simply because there always is, but in the interest of full disclosure I haven’t looked at laws on this outside CO.
This is yet another area where I look at this from the opposite direction from most people. I don’t want pot stores mandated to do anything of the kind, I want the requirement for gun stores rescinded because such things are outside the proper role of government in a *free country*.
In that regard I’m kinda like the [actually] Conservative Ohio Rep who got into it with the Liberal Ohio Rep.
Liberal: Are you aware that we have less licensing for guns than we do for fishing?
Conservative: You’re right! We should get rid of fishing licenses ASAP!
Me: YES! Let’s gooooooooo!
I was only meaning to point out the hypocrisy. The same people pushing gun “safety” laws also push drugs, abortion, war, inflation, wage suppression from immigration, degradation of our culture, etc. They aren’t trying to save lives. They’re mostly just power hungry, but some are also ideologues. Unfortunately, their ideology is idiocy.
At least it was a short list with a few good news bits.
A lot better than some in the past.
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@vinny, dude –
The picture of the truck (NY Post) shows a Texas plate, and it appears to have a flag pole and flag rigged on the rear bumper.. Can’t quite see the flags design.
Reports coming in that it is a black flag. Only guessing here but the only group that I’m aware of that uses a black flag is ISIS. The truck is reported to have crossed the Southern Border at McAllen Texas 2 days ago.
Opps the truck crossed at Eagle Pass not McAllen.
Didn’t know that New Orleans was in Mexico ( or California, as someone alluded to earlier [ref: Serpent_vision , LA] ).
Another terrorist organization uses a black flag, in fact, the color is mentioned in their name.
Radio top of the hour news just said it was an ISIS flag.
This is coming after the US and France just bombed ISIS in Syria. The US also just said we need to maintain 2k troops over there. Maybe a coincidence.
I just checked the Wiki list of ISIS attacks. It looks like the last official ISIS terrorist attack in the US was the 2017 NYC flat bed truck and the 2017 NYC attempted bombing.
We had seven years of no official attacks from them. Then, when we do have one, it is convenient timing for the war machine. I’m not saying that’s what this is. I’m saying I’ve learned enough about the deep state to question everything.
Go watch the SRS episode (149) I mentioned days ago.
And consider that even if you don’t like what she’s saying, if she’s even 10% correct we’re going to have problems on a scale that the most ardent *conspiracy theorist* can’t even begin to imagine.
She tells a pretty interesting story of what happens when you mix bureaucracy, incompetence and malevolence.
strych9,
I started watching that video a few days ago and finished it today. Her prediction is spot-on so far.
Between the information presented by Ms. Adams, Mr. Calderon and Mr. Brunner it may well be an exciting year. Perhaps the most bigly excitingness ever!
Here’s to hoping that the silly ones get what they’re asking for regardless of declared political affiliation. (I’m certainly no longer in the mood to assist them, but I am willing to laugh uproariously at their poor fortune.)
Now, if you don’t mind, I need to retreat back to my trailer park where we have no roads or other utilities. I’m really hopeful that this is the year we get that new fangled “electricity” so we can power up some “internet” to find out about thingz and stuffs!
I’ll check it out.
Only guessing here but the only group that I’m aware of that uses a black flag is ISIS.
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Great, now WP is going to crash trying to auto-mod all these people. See the mess you’ve made?
The New Orleans attack is reported as a terrorist attack. 10 killed and 35 injured including 2 injured police officers. Police shot and killed the truck driver/terrorist. The FBI is now in charge and the news is constantly being updated. It is apparent the quick response by enforcement that lives were saved.
In other news, Bill Whittle suggests that the recent wokester nonsense afflicting the world may have been the latest ~80 year world crisis that triggers a reset back to a season of relative stability and prosperity. Not that it’s over, but the world is deciding that it’s had enough. Plenty of vanquishing to do, as they fight to the last gasp, but we’re over the hump.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q58r51SK8iA
Happy New Year! Such as it is…
I’ll check that out. I’ve noticed the same thing. However, it isn’t just the woke nonsense that people are fed up with. It’s also the Uniparty nonsense that has been working together for decades to help themselves and their cronies at the expense of the average American citizen. Say what you will about Trump (I know there’s plenty to say), but he deserves credit for helping to transform the Republican party into the pro-America party it has pretended to be.
Whittle vs. Revel would make a great Celebrity Deathmatch episode.
More scorched earth from the lame duck?
My problem with laws like
“AB 2917 expands criteria for gun violence restraining orders to include hate-based threats”
is what they consider hate based threats. Doesn’t The Communist People’s Republic Of Commiefornia define hate as simply believing biological sex is a person’s actual gender, or girls not feeling safe sharing bathrooms, locker rooms or hotel rooms at work, school, or traveling for sporting events, being a Christian, not believing in abortion, not baking a cake for gay wedding, and believing illegal imagrants should be deported. In general terms simply disagreeing with the far left.
Meanwhile actually hate crimes and violence against Jews, Christians, white people, and conservatives is celibrated.
Test.
OK, interesting… let’s try this again.
I don’t know that much about the details of other states but I’ll point out the ones for Colorado because this article misses some fairly important nuances.
The storage issue is kinda mandating good practice, at least that’s what the gun controllers would argue. However, when paired with the “sensitive spaces” expansion you’re basically providing a map for thieves to steal firearms from cars and for miscreants to do other mischievous things.
For example, let’s say you have a university student. Until this year such a person could CCW on a college campus with a valid permit. This has been the case for a very long time and it’s never been a problem.
Now however, an adult CCW holder who enters a university premises or several other places like a bank property, polling location or other “educational institution” as defined by the law, is only legally allowed to carry in a parking lot.
In order to leave the parking lot to do [whatever they’re there to do] they must lock their CCW piece in an approved container. Clearly, this basically makes the parking lots of all the large campuses a happy hunting ground for gun thieves because 1. campus cops are spread thin and 2. there are A LOT of vets and other older CCW holders at these institutions.
This is also true of a number of other “sensitive spaces” that have been decreed (some listed above). It’s also true for any government buildings, but with the caveat that you can’t even bring a gun into the parking lot unless you’re a .gover, in which case there’s a carveout for you because you’re special (probably short bus special, but I digress). This is an area where localities and counties may choose not to declare a GFZ, but the flip side of that is that they also have the ability to define basically anywhere else they like to be a GFZ and there’s no real hard set of rules about how they’d have to announce that to ensure that you know where they are.
So, the result of this pairing is that gun thieves now basically have a map of where people would statistically be likely to have to ditch a CCW piece and they now can target those areas for surveillance and subsequent theft. Given that the banking/educational/whatever institution is simply following the law, I’m going to doubt that they have any liability for damage to or loss of property that you might incur while on their property.
Worse yet, the law contains certain specific provisions that can create effectively mobile GFZs, such as around an election drop box or vote counting site and bans on any parking lot possession based on the current events in the building.
For example, there’s a budget meeting which you are unaware of, going on in a .gov building so you lock your gun in a safe in the car in their parking lot and you’re still in violation because you can’t be in that parking lot in possession of a gun while the meeting is ongoing.
There’s nothing in the law that suggests that this can’t occur because you got stuck somewhere for hours waiting on some bureaucrat either. In the cases of a county building like some in Adams or some public strip-malls in Arapahoe, you could enter to do some DMV stuff having locked your gun in the car like a good little doggie and be in violation hours later when some meeting starts on another floor in the building that houses the DMV department you needed to talk to. You’re just sitting in the lobby waiting for your number to be called and you just became a criminal without even knowing it.
At the university level in particular, but also at other schooling institutions and possibly at banks, this has significantly degraded any deterrence provided by the quite obvious level of distributed defense that was in place until this year, created a hunting ground for gun thieves, and if Sarah Adams was correct, placed a very large target on public and private universities, other schools and large buildings that just happen to contain a .gov office because they’re perfect for the kind of Mumbai-style attack she’s concerned are in the works at a high level across a very wide area. Hopefully she’s wrong and/or the FBI is competent to stop those (lol!).
Oh, yeah and locking up a rifle in your car doesn’t make that legal in any of these places. These rules for being a compliant citizen only apply to handguns. Lock up a long gun and enter the parking areas of these places and the law doesn’t protect you if anyone finds out about it.
Also, the training requirement now applies to re-upping your permit as well though at a slightly lesser level (two hours vs eight as a mandatory minimum), which means you need to set aside quite a bit of extra time to basically do the refresher course in case you, like, forgot to not point guns at innocent people or something. And of course you have to pay for it, with applicable sales tax and all that before you give .gov more money for the actual permit. So far as I can tell this basically amounts to a cash-grab under the guise of safety while at the same time increasing the PITA level to get rid of CCW permits along the fringes of affordability/time availability. We can’t have the working poor be legally armed, dontchaknow.
The spaces thing goes back to my comment from a while back about SCOTUS placing some rational limits on what may or may not be declared a “sensitive space”, something the court as said exists but has not placed any limits on what a state may declare to be such.
Anyways I’ll be off now, back to my ranch/trailer park where the internet’s spotty and we have no services like roads. Gosh, I hope we get that new fangled electricity thing by 2050.
thieves may target vehicles parked near sensitive areas.
I expect that they will.
Particularly where they know there’s a high concentration of vets who, at least around here, CCW at a higher rate than John Q. Public.
So either Illinois is keeping a low profile about creating more draconian gun laws because they are about to get their dick slapped with a court ruling on their AWB, or they have been very successful in burying some new anti-gun laws in the language of the over 300 new laws that take effect on the first of the year.
I don’t believe this is a comprehensive list of new or revised anti-gun laws.