# H.R. 1041 (119th): Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act

Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act This bill prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from transmitting certain information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) utilized by licensed importers or dealers of firearms. Specifically, the bill prohibits the VA from transmitting personally identifying information of a veteran or a beneficiary to the NICS solely on the basis that such veteran or beneficiary has an appointed fiduciary to manage their benefits, unless there is an order or finding of a judicial authority that such veteran or beneficiary is a danger to themselves or others.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: background_checks. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: civil_rights. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: due_process. Category: justice_truth. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: fiduciary_disarmament. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: second_amendment. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: veterans. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 189: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 190: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The operative text restrains a government pathway that would impose a firearms-related disability based on a fiduciary appointment alone, and it requires a judicial finding of dangerousness before such a disability can follow. This restrains an unjust administrative deprivation rather than advancing a moral harm. Gun policy carries prudential debate, but the measure's core direction is restraint of unjust government action.
Theological note: The measure bears on the right to keep and bear arms, on protection of the vulnerable from unjust administrative deprivation, and on the requirement that a serious disability be imposed only through due process and a proper judicial finding. It also touches the duty of equity owed to veterans and beneficiaries who depend on fiduciary management.

## Recorded votes

Roll 189: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 208 · Nay 210 · Other 12.
Roll 190: On Passage. Yea 216 · Nay 201 · Other 13.

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