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Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
(Sec. 2) This bill prohibits, in any case arising out of the administration of laws and benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs, any person who is mentally incapacitated, deemed mentally incompetent, or experiencing an extended loss of consciousness from being considered adjudicated as a mental defective for purposes of the right to receive or transport firearms without the order or finding of a judicial authority of competent jurisdiction that such person is a danger to himself or herself or others.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1181 as passed House without amendment on Mar 16, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Mar 16, 2017
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
Passed
240 Yea 175 Nay 14 not voting
Party-line vote 14 of 415 voting members broke with their own party: 12 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
429 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1181 and vote against it. 2 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1181 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
85 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.