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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 321

Prohibition against undetectable firearms, possessing a frame or receiver of a firearm without a serial number, and providing a penalty

Topics: Crime and criminals, Firearms and dangerous weapons, Industrial development, Legislature: Criminal Penalties, Joint Review Committee on

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Jul 8, 2025

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. The committee's chair at the time was John Spiros. Chairs decide which bills get a hearing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 332. That version died when the session ended.

What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill prohibits the manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and carrying of firearms that cannot be detected by metal detectors or airport x-ray machines or scanners. Federal law currently has a comparable prohibition; under this bill, the person would violate state law as well. A person who violates the state prohibition is guilty of a Class G felony.

This bill also prohibits the sale, posting, provision, or possession of plans for manufacturing an undetectable firearm. A person who violates this prohibition is guilty of a Class H felony.

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Finally, the bill prohibits the possession of a frame or a receiver of a firearm that is not marked with a serial number. A person who violates this prohibition is guilty of a Class I felony.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report.

Who's behind it

34 representatives are its ⁠. All 34 are Democrats.

15 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 49 names

Authors (34)

Signed on in support (15)

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Sep 10, 2025 to Jan 8, 2026

    3 more representatives signed on in support.

  3. Jul 8, 2025

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

  4. Jul 8, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Joers, Fitzgerald, Subeck, Hong, Andraca, Stubbs, Vining, Clancy, Arney, Bare, Brown, Cruz, DeSmidt, Emerson, Goodwin, Hysell, Haywood, Johnson, Kirsch, Mayadev, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Palmeri, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stroud, Taylor, Tenorio and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson, Roys, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Habush Sinykin, Keyeski, Ratcliff, Smith, Spreitzer and Carpenter

  2. Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Sep 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Billings added as a coauthor

  4. Sep 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative McCarville added as a coauthor

  5. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

Terms on this page

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

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Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor