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House Roll Call 603, 100th Congress · May 10, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 4445, TERRORIST FIREARMS DETECTION, TO PROHIBIT THE PRODUCTION OR IMPORTATION OF FIREARMS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN AT LEAST 3.7 OUNCES OF METAL DETECTABLE BY SECURITY EQUIPMENT. MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.

413 yea · 4 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat239 yea · 0 nay
Republican173 yea · 4 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4445

Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Firearm detection rules do not clearly align with a punitive versus reform-oriented axis.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (415)

Nay (4)

Not voting or present (12)

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