H.R. 1041 · 119th Congress · Armed forces and national security
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · May 21, 2026
Roll call ↗216
201
Passed the House.
Passed the House on May 21, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- IntroducedFeb 6, 2025
- CommitteeJun 5, 2025
- Passed HouseMay 21, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 70
- all Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Veterans' AffairsHouse Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- Lobbying
- At least 12
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
A veteran the VA has judged unable to manage their own benefits, and for whom the VA appoints a fiduciary to receive those benefits, would no longer be sent to the federal gun background check system on that basis alone.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, May 21, 2026
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
A veteran the VA has judged unable to manage their own benefits, and for whom the VA appoints a fiduciary to receive those benefits, would no longer be sent to the federal gun background check system on that basis alone. The bill adds a new section 5501B to title 38 barring the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from transmitting a beneficiary's personally identifiable information to the Department of Justice for use in the national instant criminal background check system solely because the VA decided to pay benefits to a fiduciary, unless a judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority has found the beneficiary is a danger to themselves or others. A new section 5501C requires the Secretary, within 30 days of enactment, to notify the Attorney General that the basis for past such transmittals, going back to November 30, 1993, no longer applies, which unwinds names already reported. A new section 5501D states that a VA determination that a person is mentally incompetent, or that the person requires a fiduciary, is not by itself enough to treat that person as having been adjudicated a mental defective, the category that otherwise bars firearm possession under federal law.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 12 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 79 quarterly reports filed by 2 lobbying firms and by 11 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence; Disabled American Veterans; Paralyzed Veterans of America; National Rifle Association of America; Giffords. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 7 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.