H.R. 7827: Stop Militarizing Our Streets Act of 2026

H.R. 7827 would bar the Defense Department from buying from gun companies and dealers that keep selling military-grade assault weapons or covered ammunition to civilians.

It also blocks the Pentagon and operators of government-owned plants from selling those same weapons and ammunition into the commercial market. So the bill works in both directions: no military-to-civilian sales of covered products, and no Pentagon purchasing from companies that keep offering them commercially.

For other firearms and ammunition, the bill sets conditions on any dealer or manufacturer that wants to do business with DoD. Those conditions include federal licensing, background-check policies, inventory and sales records, employee training, security measures, limits on ammunition sales, and restrictions on selling through online marketplaces or gun shows that do not require checks for every seller.

A dealer could also lose Pentagon eligibility if more than 24 crime guns traced back to it in the previous 3 years had a time-to-crime under 3 years.

The bill defines covered weapons broadly enough to include semiautomatic firearms that are gas-operated or recoil-operated, or designed to increase rate of fire, if they hold more than 10 rounds or accept a large-capacity feeding device. Covered ammunition includes ammunition .22 caliber or larger, and the text specifically names .223 Remington and 7.62 NATO.

This is not a general nationwide retail ban — it's a contracting rule that uses taxpayer-funded Defense business to pressure civilian gun-market practices.