I will work to protect our right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment. We need to enforce the gun laws we have, not pass new ones that target the law-abiding rather than criminals.
protect the right to keep and bear arms and oppose new gun laws aimed at law-abiding citizens
Occurrences
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
Evidence
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No matching text found for "Second Amendment"; no matching text found for "firearm"; no matching text found for "gun" on the official member page when searched during the lookback window.
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The committee page lists Brad Knott as a member and shows recent activity in the last 30 days on non-gun matters, including a 05/20/2026 hearing on "The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate" and an 04/22/2026 markup of other bills.
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No matching text found for "gun", "firearm", or "Second Amendment" on the official Congress.gov member page for Brad Knott.
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The official House site’s latest news in the lookback window is a June 9, 2026 press release titled "Knott Votes to Restore ICE and CBP Funding After 100 Days of Democrat Obstruction," followed by a May 20, 2026 op-ed on aviation; site searches found no matches for "gun", "firearm", "Second Amendment", or "arms".
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The Judiciary Committee page lists recent activity on June 9, 2026 ("The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II") and June 3, 2026 (markup of H.R. 8481, H.J. Res 1, H.R. 5437, H.R. 175, and H.R. 1869); none of the recent activity items reference firearms.
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Congress.gov lists Brad Knott as a 07/22/2025 cosponsor of H.R.2189, the Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act. The bill's official title is to modernize federal firearms laws for less-than-lethal weapons; Congress.gov shows it passed the House on 02/12/2026 by 233-185 and says the bill removes certain less-than-lethal projectile devices from Gun Control Act regulation.
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GovInfo's reported-in-House record for H.R.38 lists the short title as the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025, the full title as allowing nonresidents of a state whose residents may carry concealed firearms to do so in that state, and Brad Knott (NC) among the cosponsors. The last action date listed is 10/03/2025.
Assessments
Knott made same-term federal legislative efforts aligned with the promise by cosponsoring H.R.38, a concealed-carry reciprocity bill, and H.R.2189, a firearms-law bill that passed the House. However, the evidence does not show enactment of a law, successful blocking of new gun restrictions, or another completed federal outcome that fully delivered the promise. This supports partial credit for material effort and House-level progress, not full delivery.
Brad Knott is an active U.S. representative, but the provided official-source evidence shows no identifiable sponsorship, votes, statements, or committee actions in the lookback window directly tied to protecting gun rights or opposing new gun laws aimed at law-abiding citizens. Because the record here does not show either a concrete delivery or a clear failed attempt, the promise is best scored as unresolved rather than delivered, partial, or never.
The available evidence does not show that Brad Knott delivered a concrete federal outcome protecting gun rights or blocking new gun laws aimed at law-abiding citizens. The Congress.gov/member-page search found no relevant firearm, gun, or Second Amendment activity, and the cited committee activity was unrelated to firearms. Because the promise concerns ongoing federal legislative conduct and the evidence does not establish either success or a serious failed attempt, the status remains unresolved rather than delivered, partial, or never.