I will fight tirelessly to ensure that your constitutional rights are protected and never infringed upon.
Fight to ensure constitutional rights protected and never infringed upon, including the right to keep and bear arms.
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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.
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.
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).
Assessments
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.
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.