The Legislation Tracker Is Live
Every year, hundreds of bills move through the Rhode Island General Assembly. Most of them have nothing to do with your gun rights. But hidden inside that pile are the bills that would ban your firearms, criminalize how you store them, or require you to turn them in.
Finding those bills used to mean hours of digging through the legislature’s website. Not anymore. RI Gun Rights built a system that scanned every bill in the 2026 session and pulled out every one that touches firearms law. Every matched bill now has its own dedicated page on this site: a plain-English analysis of exactly what the bill does, where it stands, and a one-click form to contact your legislators.
What the Tracker Shows You
What the bill actually changes
The literal text being added to or deleted from Rhode Island law, translated into plain English.
Where the bill stands right now
In committee, scheduled for a hearing, passed committee, or failed. Updated throughout the session as actions occur.
Who introduced it and which committee controls it
Links to the committee page and the clerk’s contact information.
Whether it helps or hurts gun owners
Each bill is tagged Anti-Gun Rights, Pro-Gun Rights, or Neutral with a color-coded badge.
The tracker landing page lets you filter by position and status with one click. Want to see only the anti-gun bills scheduled for a hearing? Two clicks.
Every Page Is Linked
The tracker is not just a list of bills. Every piece of data is connected, so you can follow a bill from any angle.
Each bill page
Lists every sponsor with a link to their legislator profile. Shows the committee with a link to the committee page. Links to any companion bill in the other chamber.
Each legislator profile
Shows every firearms bill that person has sponsored this session, with position and status badges. A quick way to see where a lawmaker stands.
Each committee page
Lists every bill currently in that committee with position and status badges. Shows an alert when a hearing is scheduled so you know exactly when to act.
Companion bill cross-links
When the same legislation is introduced in both chambers, the House and Senate versions are linked to each other. Follow whichever version moves first.
How We Decide What to Track
2,600
Bills Scanned
43
Firearms Bills Found
28
Published and Tracked
The tracker focuses on bills that directly impact the individual right to keep and bear arms: legislation that would restrict or expand what Rhode Islanders can own, carry, buy, sell, or transfer, and the criminal penalties attached to those acts.
Not every bill that mentions a firearm makes the list. There are adjacent issues where gun rights organizations genuinely disagree on how to treat them. Those bills may touch on the broader landscape but don’t directly affect your ability to own or carry a firearm. Some advocacy organizations track those bills. We have chosen to stay focused, yet still accept there is real gray area at the edges.
We also acknowledge that reasonable people can disagree with some of our calls. Our analysis reflects the plain text of each bill: what it adds and what it removes, without editorializing about legislative intent. If you think a bill belongs in the tracker that isn’t here, or you disagree with how we have categorized one, use the feedback link on any tracker page to tell us. We review every submission.
One Click to Take Action
Every bill page includes a pre-written email form addressed to the committee handling that bill. Fill in your name and email, review the letter (or edit it), and hit send. Your message goes directly to the committee members who have the power to move or kill the bill.
Every submission is also counted as a petition signature, so we can show legislators exactly how many Rhode Island gun owners are paying attention.
What’s Coming Next
The tracker is built to grow. Two major features are in development:
Vote Tracking
When bills reach a floor vote, the tracker will record how every legislator voted: Yea, Nay, or absent. That record will appear on each bill page and on each legislator’s profile.
Legislator Grades
Once vote data accumulates, every legislator receives a letter grade (A through F) reflecting their overall record on Second Amendment issues. When election season comes around, you will know exactly who earned what.
April 8, 2026: House Judiciary Committee Hearing
Eleven House Judiciary bills are scheduled for a hearing on April 8, 2026. That includes several of the most aggressive anti-gun bills of the session. This is your window to contact the committee before they vote. Open any bill below and use the email form.
Help Us Improve
The tracker is updated throughout the session, and we want to know when something is wrong or missing. If you spot an error in a bill analysis, an obvious point that is worth noting, a status that hasn’t been updated, a bill you think belongs in the tracker, or anything else that doesn’t look right, we want to hear about it.
There is a feedback button at the bottom of every bill page, every committee page, and the tracker landing page. It takes less than a minute to submit a report. You can flag a bug, flag incorrect content, or leave a suggestion for something you’d like to see added. Every submission goes directly to us and gets reviewed.
