---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 4050"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "4050"
heading: "Secure firearms storage"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/4050"
units:
  - "Part III — Prisons and Prisoners"
  - "Chapter 303 — Bureau of Prisons"
---

# §4050. Secure firearms storage

- (a) **Definitions.—** In this section—
  - (1) the term “employee” means a qualified law enforcement officer employed by the Bureau of Prisons; and
  - (2) the terms “firearm” and “qualified law enforcement officer” have the meanings given those terms under section 926B.
- (b) **Secure Firearms Storage.—** The Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall ensure that each chief executive officer of a Federal penal or correctional institution—
  - (1)
    - (A) provides a secure storage area located outside of the secure perimeter of the institution for employees to store firearms; or
    - (B) allows employees to store firearms in a vehicle lockbox approved by the Director of the Bureau of Prisons; and
  - (2) notwithstanding any other provision of law, allows employees to carry concealed firearms on the premises outside of the secure perimeter of the institution.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–391, title II, § 202(a), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5216.)