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.