AUSTIN \u2013 U.S. Senator John Cornyn joined Senator Lindsey Graham, and 17 other republican colleagues in introducing the Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) Protection Act to address the “dangerously high number of smash-and-grab thefts.” The bill targets gun dealers by enhancing penalties for criminals who steal firearms from federally licensed firearms and ammunition dealers.<\/p>\n
“Criminals who steal firearms from gun stores should be punished to the fullest extent of the law,” said Sen. Cornyn. “This legislation would prevent gun thefts by strengthening the consequences for those who break the law, and I urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to support it.”<\/p>\n
Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reported 4,046 FFL theft incidents from 2021 to 2025. During these burglary, larceny, and robbery incidents, a total of 23,319 firearms were stolen from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs). Texans have been directly impacted by these crimes as thieves have stolen 2,737 firearms from FFLs across the state during this same four-year period of 2021 to 2025.<\/p>\n The FFL Protection Act would:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Increase the statutory maximum penalty for knowingly stealing any firearm in an FFL’s business inventory from 10 to 20 years; The legislation is being led by Sen. Graham (R-SC) and is cosponsored by Senators Ted Budd (R-NC), Katie Britt (R-AL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Steve Daines (R-MT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Jim Justice (R-WV), Jim Risch (R-ID), Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Thom Tillis (R-NC).<\/p>\n Cornyn’s office said the legislation is endorsed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AUSTIN \u2013 U.S. Senator John Cornyn joined Senator Lindsey Graham, and 17 other republican colleagues in introducing the Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) Protection Act to address the “dangerously high number of smash-and-grab thefts.” The bill targets gun dealers by enhancing penalties for criminals who steal firearms from federally licensed firearms and ammunition dealers. “Criminals who … Continue reading Cornyn, republican colleagues introduce ‘smash-and-grab’ crimes bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[164,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","category-unassigned"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 00:24:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514046,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514045\/revisions\/1514046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Impose a mandatory minimum sentence of three years for burglary from an FFL and five years for robbery from an FFL;
\n\u2022 Criminalize the attempted theft of a firearm from a licensed importer, manufacturer, dealer, or collector. <\/p>\n