Ban bump stocks.

Christian D. Menefee · Texas · Democratic

policy impact 0.55 specificity 0.79 extraction confidence 95%

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

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Evidence

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Congress.gov lists H.R.2799 as Introduced, with latest action on 04/09/2025: referred to the House Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees. The actions page shows 3 total actions and no passage, Senate, presidential, or public-law step.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The main House bill that would ban bump-stock-type devices remains only introduced/referred in committee; no enactment or recent lookback-window action found showing delivery.

unresolved same_term

Congress.gov - H.R.2799, Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act of 2025, Actions
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 89%

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The Court held that ATF exceeded its statutory authority by issuing a rule that classifies a bump stock as a machinegun, and noted that earlier congressional bills to ban bump stocks had not become law.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The prior federal regulatory bump-stock ban was invalidated, leaving congressional legislation as the route to a federal ban; this supports that the commitment has not been delivered absent enacted legislation.

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Supreme Court of the United States - Garland v. Cargill, No. 22-976
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 92%

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Assessments

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

The promised federal outcome, a current ban on bump stocks, has not been delivered. The prior ATF rule was invalidated by the Supreme Court in Garland v. Cargill, and H.R.2799, the Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act of 2025, remains introduced/referred rather than enacted. Menefee appears as a cosponsor of the pending House bill during his current 119th Congress service, so there is same-term legislative effort, but not yet delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%