---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearm Law Revisions."
description: "Firearm Law Revisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 193"
citation: "North Carolina HB 193 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS; BUILDINGS; COURTS; CRIMINAL RECORDS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION BOARDS; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; EMERGENCY SERVICES; JUDGES; KINDERGARTEN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS; LICENSES & PERMITS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PRIVATE SCHOOLS; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; RECREATION & LEISURE; SCHOOL BUILDINGS & PROPERTY; SECONDARY EDUCATION; VETOED; WEAPONS; RECORDS; CHAPTERED; VETO OVERRIDDEN; PROPERTY-LOCAL GOVERNMENT; CONCEALED CARRY; SHOOTING RANGES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McNeely", "Miller", "Pyrtle"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 45
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bda772c5-03ca-4a6a-ada7-7d1cc2b07684"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H193"
source_hash: "f0b056e59033d829afeb766c03ca480fddf7af1e47d906fcd4a8f3fde2c2c301"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina HB 193 (2025) — Firearm Law Revisions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H193v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H193v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H193v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H193v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H193v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2025-81** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H193v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 11 Veto Override — **29–19** (pass) · upper
- Veto Override — **72–48** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McNeely — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Pyrtle — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Almond — cosponsor (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Branson — cosponsor (person)
- Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Pike — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-07-29** Ch. SL 2025-81 `became-law`
- **2025-07-29** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2025-07-29** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2025-07-29** Veto Received From House
- **2025-07-29** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2025-07-10** Placed On Cal For 07/29/2025
- **2025-07-09** Received from the Governor
- **2025-07-09** Vetoed 07/09/2025 `executive-veto`
- **2025-07-01** Pres. To Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-30** Ratified
- **2025-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-26** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-25** Placed On Cal For 06/26/2025
- **2025-06-25** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-25** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-25** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-25** Amend Tabled A1
- **2025-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2025
- **2025-06-24** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2025-06-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-19** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-19** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-06-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-05-05** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-05-01** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-05-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Placed On Cal For 05/01/2025
- **2025-04-30** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Re-ref Com On Education - K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Education - K-12, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-02-26** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bda772c5-03ca-4a6a-ada7-7d1cc2b07684`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).