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%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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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
campaign · campaign_site · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

unverified · Source version 8338 · locator unknown

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

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official campaign material states the Second Amendment promise in the same family-and-home framing as the claim.

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Meet Pete - Pete Stauber for Congress
campaign · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 97%

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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.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): 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
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 96%

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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.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): 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
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 90%

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"Second Amendment" ... "Learn about news and information related to Second Amendment."

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): 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.

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Issues | Representative Pete Stauber
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 84%

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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

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): 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
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 63%

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Pete Stauber is listed among H.R. 38 cosponsors, and the bill's latest official action is union-calendar placement on 2025-10-03; the bill still shows as Introduced.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Stauber continued backing a concrete concealed-carry reciprocity bill, but the federal measure still had not become law.

partial same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.38 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 96%

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On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, which set that tax at zero dollars. However, the registration requirement survived.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, an official House Oversight release described an enacted Second Amendment-related tax change while also noting remaining federal registration burdens, supporting limited delivery rather than full satisfaction of the broad promise.

partial same_term

Higgins Leads Roundtable on Suppressors and Their Relationship with the Second Amendment - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%

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SEC. 70436. REDUCTION OF TRANSFER AND MANUFACTURING TAXES FOR CERTAIN DEVICES.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Public Law 119-21 enacted a firearm-related tax provision, a concrete federal policy change relevant to Second Amendment protections but narrower than the full family-and-home self-defense promise.

partial same_term

Public Law 119-21 - An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

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$0 for any firearm transferred which is not described in paragraph (1).

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The enacted statutory text reduced the transfer tax to zero for covered non-machinegun/non-destructive-device firearms, a tangible but limited gun-rights-related outcome.

partial same_term

Public Law 119-21 - An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 87%

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Stauber | Republican | MN | Aye

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Stauber voted for final House concurrence on H.R. 1, the vehicle that became Public Law 119-21 and included the firearm tax reduction.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 92%

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Stauber | Republican | MN | Yea

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Stauber voted for House passage of the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, showing concrete continued effort on firearm-rights legislation that had not become law as of the refresh date.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 91%

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Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo shows H.R. 1041 advanced to the Senate but remained referred to committee, so Stauber’s vote represents effort and House passage rather than enacted federal delivery.

unresolved same_term

H.R. 1041 (RFS) - Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act - BILLS-119hr1041rfs | Related Documents | GovInfo
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term A for effort

As a federal House member, Stauber can get full credit here only for a concrete protective outcome such as enacted federal legislation or another material policy change tied to the promise. The evidence shows meaningful effort: he cosponsored concealed-carry reciprocity legislation and publicly advocated a self-defense reading of the Second Amendment. But the cited bills remained unpassed, and the record provided does not show a completed federal policy outcome that newly secured or expanded this right. That supports partial credit for active advancement, not full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 90%

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): 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%

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): 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%