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John Ashcroft on Guns

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Guns4 votes · 55.6/100 consistent
Gun restrictionsGun rights

7 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Guns. 4 of them counted toward the score above: 3 toward “Gun rights” and 1 toward “Gun restrictions”.

The other 3 did not count: 3 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 0 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

DateWhat was voted onVotedCounted as
2000-05-17To express the sense of the Senate with regard to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the enforcement of Federal firearms laws, and the juvenile crime conference.S. 2521 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2000-05-17To express the sense of the Senate with regard to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the enforcement of Federal firearms laws, and the juvenile crime conference.S. 2521 · 106th Congress · On the Decision of the ChairNayDirection not readable
2000-04-06To express the sense of the Senate regarding the need to reduce gun violence in America.S.Con.Res. 101 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2000-02-02To provide for the nondischargeability of debts arising from firearm-related debts, and for other purposes.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentNayGun rights
1999-05-13To amend chapter 44 of Title 18, United States Code, to enhance penalties for the unlawful use by or transfer to juveniles of a handgun, ammunition, large capacity ammunition feeding devices, or semiautomatic assault weapons, and for other purposes.S. 254 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaGun restrictions
1998-07-28To ban the importation of large capacity ammunition feeding devices. — (SENATE TABLED FEINSTEIN AMENDMENT NO. 3351, TO BAN IMPORTATION OF LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICES. .)S. 2312 · 105th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaGun rights
1996-06-27To eliminate taxpayer subsidies for recreational shooting programs, and to prevent the transfer of federally-owned weapons, ammunition, funds, and other property to a private Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety. — (SENATE TABLED LAUTENBERG AMENDMENT NO. 4218, TO BLOCK THE TRANSFER OF $76 MILLION OF FEDERALLY-OWNED WEAPONS, AMMUNITION, FUNDS, AND OTHER PROPERTY TO A PRIVATE CORPORATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE AND FIREARMS SAFETY.)S. 1745 · 104th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaGun rights

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Gun restrictions / Gun rights axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.