Protect the Second Amendment right to defend your family and home.

Pete Stauber · Minnesota · Republican

policy impact 0.74 specificity 0.70 extraction confidence 90%

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Pete also is fighting against the tyrannical mandates wrongly imposed by Tim Walz and Joe Biden on our businesses, schools, and our own personal medical decisions.

The campaign includes a commitment to resist mandates affecting businesses, schools, and personal medical decisions.

Meet Pete - Pete Stauber for Congress
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Evidence

“Pete is committed to protecting the 2nd Amendment guaranteeing your right to defend your family and your home.”

Official campaign material states the Second Amendment promise in the same family-and-home framing as the claim.

unresolved unknown

Meet Pete - Pete Stauber for Congress
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Rep. Stauber, Pete [R-MN-8]* is listed among the cosponsors of H.R. 38, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2023.

Stauber backed a concrete national concealed-carry reciprocity bill, which is consistent with protecting lawful defensive gun rights.

partial same_term A for effort

Cosponsors - H.R.38 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Stauber said, in House debate, that he was shot and that a criminal who should not have had a firearm tried to take his life; he argued that the Second Amendment protects people to defend themselves.

This official floor statement shows Stauber publicly tying the Second Amendment to self-defense, supporting the claim that he acted on the promise rhetorically in Congress.

partial same_term A for effort

Congressional Record | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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"Second Amendment" ... "Learn about news and information related to Second Amendment."

Stauber's official House site still maintains a dedicated Second Amendment issue area, but this page does not document any new delivered policy outcome in the lookback window.

unresolved unknown

Issues | Representative Pete Stauber
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H.R.4242 ... Latest Action: House - 02/02/2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 407. ... This bill has the status Introduced

Stauber's member page shows a recent firearm-adjacent bill moving in committee but still not enacted, which is consistent with active effort rather than delivery of the underlying promise.

partial same_term A for effort

Pete Stauber | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Assessments

never same_term A for effort

Stauber made concrete same-term efforts consistent with the promise, including cosponsoring federal concealed-carry reciprocity legislation and publicly defending Second Amendment self-defense rights in House debate. However, the evidence does not show an enacted federal policy outcome or other completed official action that materially delivered the promised protection of the right to defend family and home. Because the record supports serious legislative and rhetorical effort but not delivery, this is best scored as not fulfilled with an effort badge.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%

never same_term A for effort

Stauber made a serious same-term legislative and rhetorical effort to support the promised Second Amendment self-defense position, including cosponsoring H.R. 38 on national concealed-carry reciprocity and defending that view in House debate. However, the evidence shows advocacy and attempted legislation rather than an enacted or otherwise completed policy outcome that materially delivered the promised protection.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%