William Flynt Nichols on Guns

DemocratAL

Guns5 votes · 70.4/100 consistent

Gun restrictionsGun rights

9 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Guns. 5 of them counted toward the score above: 4 toward “Gun rights” and 1 toward “Gun restrictions”.

The other 4 did not count: 4 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.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
1987-12-08	TO AMEND HR 3100, FOREIGN AID AUTHORIZATION, TO STRIKE LANGUAGE PROHIBITING USE OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO FURNISH WEAPONS OR AMMUNITION TO GUATEMALA.H.R. 3100 · 100th Congress	Yea	Direction not readable
1986-04-10	TO ADOPT HR 4332, A BILL TO AMEND CHAPTER 44 OF TITLE 18, US CODE (THE 1968 GUN CONTROL ACT.)H.R. 4332 · 99th Congress	Yea	Gun rights
1986-04-10	TO AMEND THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO HR 4332, IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE, TO PERMIT INTERSTATE SALES OF RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS, PERMIT INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF ALL FIREARMS, LESSEN RECORD-KEEPING REQUIREMENTS FOR FIREARMS TRANSACTIONS, RESTRICT FEDERAL AGENTS TO ONE UNANNOUNCED INSPECTION OF A GUN DEALER'S BUSINESS EACH YEAR, DEREGULATE AMMUNITION SALES, RESTRICT FORFEITURE OF FIREARMS IN CERTAIN CASES, AND PERMIT PARDONED CONVICTED FELONS TO OWN FIREARMS.H.R. 4332 · 99th Congress	Yea	Gun rights
1986-04-09	TO ADOPT H RES 403, THE RULE UNDER WHICH HR 4332, A BILL TO AMEND THE 1968 GUN CONTROL ACT WILL BE CONSIDERED.H.R. 4332 · 99th Congress	Did not vote	Direction not readable
1985-12-17	MOTION TO SUPEND THE RULES AND PASS H R 3132 WHICH REGULATES THE MANUFACTURE, IMPORTATION, AND SALE OF ARMOR-PIERCING AMMUNITION. A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY REQUIRED. (MOTION PASSED)H.R. 3132 · 99th Congress	Yea	Gun restrictions
1981-11-18	TO AMEND AN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4995, WHICH SOUGHT TO REDUCE ALL APPROPRIATIONS IN THE BILL BY 5%. THE ROUKEMA AMENDMENT THERETO SOUGHT TO REDUCE BY 2% FUNDING FOR MILITARY PROCUREMENT AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, EXCEPTING SPARE PARTS, REPAIR PARTS OR AMMUNITION. (MOTION FAILED)H.R. 4995 · 97th Congress	Nay	Direction not readable
1980-05-29	TO RECEDE FROM DISAGREEMENT TO SENATE AMENDMENT TO H. CON. RES. 307 AND CONCUR WITH TWO AMENDMENTS, PROVIDING FOR A DIVISION BETWEEN 1981 AND 1980 IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET RESOLUTION. THE FIRST AMENDMENT INSISTS ON THE HOUSE PASSED VERSION OF THE 1981 RESOLUTION; THE SECOND AMENDMENT REGARDS THE 1980 SUPPLEMENTALS AND RECONCILIATION FOR 1980 AND 1981 FOR WHICH THERE IS BASICALLY NO CONFERENCE DISAGREEMENT. (MOTION FAILED)H.Con.Res. 307 · 96th Congress	Nay	Direction not readable
1978-06-07	TO AMEND H.R. 12930 BY RESTORING A $4.2 MILLION AUTHORIZATION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES OF THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS, AND BY STRIKING LANGUAGE BARRING THE USE OF FUNDS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTERIZED FIREARM REGULATION.H.R. 12930 · 95th Congress	Nay	Gun rights
1975-07-29	TO AMEND H.R. 6844, A BILL TO AMEND THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY ACT, BY INCLUDING FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION LABELING WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION.H.R. 6844 · 94th Congress	Nay	Gun 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.