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Fully KeptSecond Amendment / Gun Rights

Pledges not to support any legislation requiring a firearm-purchase waiting period, banning firearm ownership, or rationing/taxing firearms or ammunition.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 88%

Adversarial re-check. (a) SOURCE VERIFICATION: all three cited sources were independently fetched and are real, live, and correctly quoted. crapo.senate.gov/issues/second-amendment carries the pledge verbatim ('I will not support any legislation that requires a waiting period for the purchase of a firearm, bans the ownership of firearms, promotes or requires the rationing or taxation of firearms or the taxation of ammunition'). Senate Roll Call 117-2-242 (S. 2938, Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, June 23, 2022) records 'Crapo (R-ID), Nay' on a 65-33 motion to concur; that law contained the enhanced-review purchase delay for under-21 buyers, i.e. the closest thing to a federal waiting period enacted in his tenure, and he opposed it. Senate Roll Call 113-1-97 (Manchin Amdt. 715 to S. 649, Apr. 17, 2013) records 'Crapo (R-ID), Nay' on the 54-46 rejected background-check amendment. (b) COUNTER-EVIDENCE SEARCH: I looked for any vote cutting against the pledge and found none. Senate Roll Call 106-1-134 (S.Amdt. 362 to S. 254, Lautenberg gun-show amendment, May 20, 1999, agreed 50-50 with the VP tiebreak) records 'Crapo (R-ID), Nay' - the earliest measure in his Senate service imposing a gun-show check/delay, and he voted against it. Senate Roll Call 118-1-171 (H.J.Res. 44, June 22, 2023) records 'Crapo (R-ID), Yea' to overturn the ATF stabilizing-brace rule, i.e. movement in the pro-gun-rights direction. No enacted or floor-voted federal ban, waiting period, rationing scheme, or firearm/ammunition tax has drawn his support. (c) OUTCOME CHECK: this is a negative pledge - fulfillment consists of withholding support, not of leading an effort - so CHAMPIONED is inapposite and FULL is the correct label for a negative pledge honored without exception across the verified record. NEUTRALITY TEST: a Democrat pledging never to support legislation restricting some right, with a matching unbroken record of Nay votes on every such measure reaching the floor, would receive FULL under this same standard; the label is symmetric. Confidence held at 0.88 rather than higher because roll-call review covered the major firearms measures of his Senate service (1999-present) rather than every ancillary amendment, and because an ongoing negative pledge remains open to future contradiction.

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