Fight to ensure constitutional rights protected and never infringed upon, including the right to keep and bear arms.

Andrew Ogles · Tennessee · Republican

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I will fight tirelessly to ensure that your constitutional rights are protected and never infringed upon.

Commits to actively defending constitutional rights, including the Second Amendment.

Issues - Andy Ogles
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Evidence

## 2nd Amendment As an elected official, I took an oath to defend the Constitution. The Second Amendment is abundantly clear that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” I will fight tirelessly to ensure that your constitutional rights are protected and never infringed upon.

Archived campaign issues page shows Ogles publicly promised to fight to protect constitutional rights and the right to keep and bear arms.

partial same_term

Issues - Andy Ogles
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Sponsor: Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5] (Introduced 02/12/2025) ... Mr. Ogles ... introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services ... To prohibit the use of a merchant category code that separately identifies firearms merchants or ammunition merchants, and for other purposes.

Ogles introduced a Second Amendment-related bill in 2025 to block firearm-merchant merchant category codes, showing concrete legislative action on the issue.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.1224 - Protecting the Second Amendment in Financial Services Act
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Sponsor: Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5] (Introduced 05/18/2023) Latest Action: House - 05/18/2023 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Tracker: This bill has the status Introduced ... Forbidding the Increase of Rogue Enforcers Act or the FIRE Act This bill prohibits hiring and related activities within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

Ogles also introduced a firearms-enforcement reform bill in 2023, but it remained only introduced and referred in committee, not enacted.

never same_term A for effort

H.R.3529 - FIRE Act
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partial same_term A for effort

Ogles made concrete same-term efforts tied to the promise, including introducing firearms-related legislation such as the FIRE Act in 2023 and a 2025 bill targeting firearm-merchant category codes. However, the cited measures did not become law or otherwise establish that constitutional rights, including the right to keep and bear arms, were actually protected from infringement as a delivered policy outcome. Because the promise was broad and framed as a fight, these actions merit partial credit rather than full delivery.

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delivered same_term

The promise was framed as a commitment to fight for protection of constitutional rights, including gun rights, rather than to secure a specific enacted policy outcome. Ogles took concrete same-term legislative action on Second Amendment issues, including introducing bills related to firearm merchant category codes and ATF enforcement. Although at least one bill did not advance beyond committee, the promised action was advocacy/fighting on the issue, which the evidence shows he performed.

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