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Bill Text

SB1359 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: firearms; destruction by state

 State of Arizona

 Senate

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 SB 1359

 Introduced by 

 Senators 
 Kuby: Alston, Gabald�n, Hatathlie, Miranda, Ortiz;� Representatives Garcia, 
 Gutierrez, M�rquez, Sandoval, Stahl Hamilton

AN 
ACT

amending sections 12-945 and 13-3108, 
Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to weapons.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 12-945, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE12-945. Sale of property; firearm destruction

A. If after thirty days' notice 
has been given the owner or person entitled to the property has not taken it 
away, the property may be sold.� The proceeds shall be paid to the general fund 
of the jurisdiction from which the unclaimed property was received.

B. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, if 
the property is a firearm, the agency shall sell the firearm to any business 
that is authorized to receive and dispose of the firearm under federal and 
state law and that shall sell the firearm to the public according to federal 
and state law, unless the firearm is otherwise prohibited from being sold under 
federal and state law.� A law enforcement agency may trade a firearm that it 
has retained to a federal firearms licensed business for ammunition, weapons, 
equipment or other materials to be exclusively used for law enforcement 
purposes.

C. This section does not prohibit 
this state, any agency or political subdivision of this state or any law 
enforcement agency in this state from destroying or facilitating the 
destruction of a firearm, ammunition or any firearm or ammunition component or 
related accessory. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Section 13-3108, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-3108. Firearms regulated by state; state preemption; injunction; civil 
penalty; cause of action; violation; classification; definition

A. Except as provided in subsection G 
F of this section, a political subdivision of this state 
shall not enact any ordinance, rule or tax relating to the transportation, 
possession, carrying, sale, transfer, purchase, acquisition, gift, devise, 
storage, licensing, registration, discharge or use of firearms or ammunition or 
any firearm or ammunition components or related accessories in this state.

B. A political subdivision of this state shall not 
require the licensing or registration of firearms or ammunition or any firearm 
or ammunition components or related accessories or prohibit the ownership, 
purchase, sale or transfer of firearms or ammunition or any firearm or 
ammunition components, or related accessories.

C. A political subdivision of this state shall not 
require or maintain a record in any form, whether permanent or temporary, 
including a list, log or database, of any of the following:

1. Any identifying information of a person who 
leaves a weapon in temporary storage at any public establishment or public 
event, except that the operator of the establishment or the sponsor of the 
event may require that a person provide a government issued identification or a 
reasonable copy of a government issued identification for the purpose of 
establishing ownership of the weapon.� The operator or sponsor shall store any 
provided identification with the weapon and shall return the identification to 
the person when the weapon is retrieved. The operator or sponsor 
shall not retain records or copies of any identification provided pursuant to 
this paragraph after the weapon is retrieved.

2. Except in the course of a law enforcement 
investigation, any identifying information of a person who owns, possesses, 
purchases, sells or transfers a firearm.

3. The description, including the serial number, of 
a weapon that is left in temporary storage at any public establishment or 
public event.

D. A political subdivision of this state shall not 
enact any rule or ordinance that relates to firearms and is more prohibitive 
than or that has a penalty that is greater than any state law 
penalty. A political subdivision's rule or ordinance that relates to 
firearms and that is inconsistent with or more restrictive than state law, 
whether enacted before or after July 29, 2010, is null and void.

E. A political subdivision of this state shall not 
enact any ordinance, rule or regulation limiting the lawful taking of wildlife 
during an open season established by the Arizona game and fish commission 
unless the ordinance, rule or regulation is consistent with title 17 and rules 
and orders adopted by the Arizona game and fish commission.� This subsection 
does not prevent a political subdivision from adopting an ordinance or rule 
restricting the discharge of a firearm within one-fourth mile of an occupied 
structure without the consent of the owner or occupant of the structure.� For 
the purposes of this su