Mapmakers governing document
SAFE Act of 2036
Second Amendment Firearms Empowerment Act of 2036. A comprehensive fictional federal firearms statute that pairs broad lawful access with rigorous qualification, universal transaction accountability, and individualized restrictions based on conduct, adjudication, and demonstrated dangerousness.
This is an in-universe primary-source legal document from the fictional future history of Mapmakers. It is not a current Act of Congress, does not state present United States law, and is published here as worldbuilding and speculative legislative design.
Overview
The SAFE Act rebuilds federal firearms law around a national licensing and accountability system rather than categorical bans on particular weapon designs. It establishes three firearm classes, a Federal Firearms License system, Class III endorsements and qualifications, universal transfer processing, custody and storage rules, dangerousness procedures, restoration mechanisms, federal preemption, and the Bureau of Firearms and Explosives.
The statute is written as enacted law rather than as a policy paper. Its regulatory details are delegated to a corresponding BFE Administrative Code, while the Act itself supplies the rights, prohibitions, liabilities, procedures, and institutional framework.
Governing philosophy
Firearms are regulated according to required qualification and accountability rather than prohibited merely because of design or capability.
Higher-risk firearms and activities require progressively greater licensing, training, endorsement, storage, and continuing compliance.
Transfers, custody, serialization, loss and theft reporting, and regulated possession are built around traceable responsibility.
Legal disabilities attach to people based on conduct, adjudication, or demonstrated dangerousness rather than to broad categories of otherwise lawful arms.
Principal systems
- Class I, Class II, and Class III firearm classification.
- Federal Firearms Licensing and Class III endorsements.
- Universal FFL-administered transfer and background-check processing.
- Registration and custody controls for regulated firearms.
- Serialization and manufacture requirements.
- Carry, transport, storage, defensive-use, and emergency rules.
- Temporary dangerousness procedures and permanent ineligibility standards.
- Structured restoration of firearms eligibility.
- Civil and criminal enforcement, including cumulative firearm enhancements for qualifying violent felonies.
- National preemption and administration by the Bureau of Firearms and Explosives.
Publication files
Enacted text
The publication edition contains the complete 205-section statute in 32 titles.
Read / download the Act (PDF)Publication companion
Separate nonstatutory material containing the explanatory note, President Valen signing statement, and BFE Administrative Code implementation outline.
Read / download the companion (PDF)Publication note
The enacted text and the publication companion are intentionally separate. The companion provides explanatory and implementation material but does not form part of the statute.
Companion legislation
DRUG Act of 2037
Drug Risk and Undercutting Gangs Act of 2037. Enacted shortly after SAFE, the DRUG Act attacks the illicit drug economy that finances gangs and organized violence by making regulated pharmaceutical supply cheaper, more reliable, and safer than criminal-market supply for adults who elect to remain users.
The Act does not declare addictive drug use safe. It expressly treats DRUG maintenance prescriptions as substantially impairing regimens and pairs lawful access with temporary safety-sensitive restrictions, including relinquishment of firearms possession, motor-vehicle operation, and sole or unsupervised responsibility for minors while the participant remains subject to the program.
Persistent demand is redirected from gangs and cartels into a regulated pharmaceutical system with known identity, potency, dose, and supply.
Lawful access is coupled to medical consultation, anti-diversion controls, and temporary restrictions on safety-sensitive activities during participation.
How SAFE and DRUG work together
SAFE and DRUG form complementary parts of the same public-safety strategy. SAFE reduces the lethality and misuse of firearms through qualification, licensing, transfer accountability, and individualized restrictions. DRUG attacks the revenue stream and street-market competition that sustain much organized criminal violence. One controls access to dangerous weapons; the other removes fuel from the illicit economy that drives much of the violence surrounding them.
DRUG Act publication file
Enacted text
The publication edition contains the complete 166-section statute in 22 titles, formatted to match the published SAFE Act edition.
Read / download the DRUG Act (PDF)Companion legislation
HOME Act
Housing Opportunity Made Easy Act. The HOME Act requires local governments, with substantial federal funding and HUD implementation guidance, to provide unconditional housing to any person physically present in the jurisdiction who asks for a room. Housing must provide a standard of living at least equal to that afforded by the jurisdiction’s local jail, while preserving ordinary freedom of movement and allowing residents to come and go at will.
Eligibility is not conditioned on sobriety, treatment, employment, residency, criminal history, or participation in services. Reasonable rules may protect residents, staff, and facilities, but a person who remains free in the community cannot be denied housing. Criminal conduct remains subject to ordinary arrest and prosecution.