Defend Second Amendment rights and fight efforts to restrict them while in Congress.

Burgess Owens · Utah · Republican

policy impact 0.84 specificity 0.77 extraction confidence 97%

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

Occurrences

I promise to defend them as long as I am in Congress. I will continue to fight ATF overreach and any of their attempts to restrict your second amendment rights.

The candidate pledges to defend Second Amendment rights while serving in Congress and to oppose ATF efforts or other attempts to restrict those rights.

2nd Amendment - Burgess Owens
campaign · campaign_site · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

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May 21, 2026: Roll Call 190 on H.R. 1041, Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, shows Rep. Burgess Owens (UT) voted Yea; the measure passed the House 216-201.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Owens backed a House-passed bill that would prohibit certain VA-to-DOJ data transmission for NICS, a concrete pro-Second Amendment vote within the lookback window.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 98%

unverified · Source version 19986 · locator unknown

Roll Call 190 on H.R. 1041, the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, records Rep. Burgess Owens (UT) voting Yea on passage; the House passed the bill 216-201 on May 21, 2026.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Owens took a concrete same-term congressional action supporting Second Amendment rights by voting for a House-passed pro-2A bill, but the measure was not yet final federal law in the available record.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 98%

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Markup of H.R. 2442, the Freedom from Unfair Gun Taxes Act of 2025; H.R. 9298, the Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, the House Judiciary Committee posted a Sept. 16, 2026 markup covering two firearms-related bills, including H.R. 9298. This is concrete continued congressional activity, but the posting does not show enactment or House passage for those measures.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R. 2442, the Freedom from Unfair Gun Taxes Act of 2025; H.R. 9298, the Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act; H.R. 9503, the Officer Leslie Coffelt U.S. Secret Service Police Act; H.R. 3342, the BOP Direct-Hire Authority Act; H.R. 10335, the Restoring Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Act of 2026; H.R. 9834, the No Racketeers on our Shores Act; and H.R. 8330, the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 | Committee Repository | U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

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Votes * RC #1 - Vote on Final Passage of HR 3342, as amended * RC #2 - Vote on Final Passage of HR 9834, as amended

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official committee repository’s vote section for the Sept. 16 markup lists recorded final-passage votes only for H.R. 3342 and H.R. 9834, not for the two firearms bills. That weighs against treating the lookback activity as delivered.

unresolved same_term

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Representative Burgess Owens [R] | Cosponsor | Webmail | 202-225-3011 | HD-UT-4

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Owens is listed as a cosponsor of H.R. 9298, the Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act, a pro-gun-industry liability bill. This is a concrete same-term effort supporting the promise, though not enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

LegiScan - Bill Sponsors: US HB9298, 119th Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 84%

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JUNE 2, 2026 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The House-passed Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act remained referred to the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee as of the official Senate-referred text, showing prior pro-Second Amendment effort but not a completed federal delivery.

partial same_term A for effort

BILLS-119hr1041rfs.pdf
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

Assessments

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

Owens took a concrete same-term pro-Second Amendment action by voting for H.R. 1041, but the record here shows only House passage of a bill, not a completed federal outcome or broader fulfillment of the promise to defend gun rights and fight restrictions while in Congress. That supports partial credit rather than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 95%

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

The available record shows Owens took a concrete same-term pro-Second Amendment action by voting for House passage of H.R. 1041, the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, on May 21, 2026. That supports the promise to defend gun rights in Congress, but the evidence provided is limited to a single House vote on a bill that had not yet become final federal law, and the promise is a broad ongoing commitment rather than a one-time outcome. On this record, he has partially delivered on the promise through clear congressional action, but not enough to count it as fully delivered.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 87%

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

Owens took a concrete same-term congressional action aligned with the promise by voting Yea on H.R. 1041, the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, which passed the House on May 21, 2026. That supports credit for fighting restrictions on Second Amendment rights in Congress. However, the evidence shows only House passage, not final enactment into federal law or a completed policy outcome, so this is partial rather than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 92%