Legislation· Jun 2026Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
Blocks VA from flagging veterans to gun background checks solely for using a benefits fiduciary.
Tradeoff
Protects veterans with court-appointed money managers from automatic firearm purchase restrictions. Requires VA to retract past fiduciary-based background check submissions.
What's in it
No significant change in federal spending or revenues over 10 years (2025-2035).
The bill's federal cost is negligible—mostly just the administrative overhead of VA changing its NICS reporting procedures—but its real impact is on veterans: those with fiduciaries can no longer be automatically barred from firearm purchases solely due to benefit management, though judges can still block purchases if they find danger.
The House passed this 216-201 on May 21, 2026. A failed 208-210 the same day. The bill is now in the Senate.
House
Introduced
(Feb 6, 2025)
House
Committee on Veterans' Affairs(Feb 6, 2025)
House
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs voted to send it to the floor
Reported 13 - 11(May 6, 2025)
Committee report H. Rept. 119-143.
House
On
Failed(Roll #189 · May 21, 2026)
208 yeanay 210House
Passage of the bill
Passed(Roll #190 · May 21, 2026)
216 yeanay 201Senate
Received from the House
on Veterans' Affairs(Jun 2, 2026)
- Morgan Luttrell (R-TX)
- Jack Bergman (R-MI)
- Sheri Biggs (R-SC)
- Brad Finstad (R-MN)
- Darin LaHood (R-IL)
- Russ Fulcher (R-ID)
- Chuck Edwards (R-NC)
- Daniel Webster (R-FL)
- Don Bacon (R-NE)
- Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT)
- Sam Graves (R-MO)
- Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
- Nancy Mace (R-SC)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY)
- Mark Alford (R-MO)
- Derrick Van Orden (R-WI)
- Richard Hudson (R-NC)
- Brett Guthrie (R-KY)
- Chip Roy (R-TX)
- Kat Cammack (R-FL)
- Mike Kelly (R-PA)
- John R. Moolenaar (R-MI)
- Randy Feenstra (R-IA)
- Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL)
- Andy Harris (R-MD)
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA)
- Brian Babin (R-TX)
- James R. Baird (R-IN)
- Barry Moore (R-AL)
- Jay Obernolte (R-CA)
- Mark E. Amodei (R-NV)
- Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)
- Mike Collins (R-GA)
- Abraham Hamadeh (R-AZ)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI)
- Ronny Jackson (R-TX)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN)
- Adrian Smith (R-NE)
- Michael A. Rulli (R-OH)
- Rudy Yakym (R-IN)
- Tom Barrett (R-MI)
- Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY)
- Ashley Hinson (R-IA)
- Mark Messmer (R-IN)
- Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC)
- Burgess Owens (R-UT)
- W. Gregory Steube (R-FL)
- Erin Houchin (R-IN)
- Keith Self (R-TX)
- Andy Barr (R-KY)
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY)
- Troy Downing (R-MT)
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA)
- Clay Higgins (R-LA)
- Harold Rogers (R-KY)
- James Comer (R-KY)
- Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY)
- Jeff Crank (R-CO)
- Brandon Gill (R-TX)
- Bill Huizenga (R-MI)
- Tim Moore (R-NC)
- David J. Taylor (R-OH)
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)
- Mike Ezell (R-MS)
- Jeff Hurd (R-CO)
- Ben Cline (R-VA)
- Monica De La Cruz (R-TX)
- Addison P. McDowell (R-NC)
- Mark Harris (R-NC)
- John H. Rutherford (R-FL)
Passage votes so far· May 21, 2026· 119th Congress · 2025–2027