Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has introduced legislation aimed at preventing “bad-apple gun dealers” from being involved in federal contracts.
The gun safety bill, titled the Clean Firearm Procurement Act, would require the attorney general to identify and make public a list of the firearms that are “consistently and dramatically overrepresented” in violent crime and crimes, per the bill. The attorney general would then prohibit federal departments and agencies from starting contracts with the dealers of the listed firearms.
“The federal government should not be giving lucrative federal contracts to the bad-apple gun dealers who are consistently selling firearms to people who use them in violent crimes or transfer them to people who use them in violent crimes,” Raskin said in a statement Thursday.
Raskin introduced the bill last week, while Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) will introduce companion legislation in the Senate in the coming weeks, Padilla’s office confirmed.