House Roll Call 305, 102nd Congress · October 17, 1991

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE VOLKMER AMENDMENT THAT STRIKES LANGUAGE THAT PROHIBITS THE SALE, POSSESSION, AND TRANSFER OF SEMI-AUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS AND REQUIRES DEALERS TO REPORT MULTIPLE FIREARM PURCHASES.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

247 yea · 177 nayAgreed to9 not voting or present

Democrat108 yea · 146 nay

Republican139 yea · 28 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3371 ↗

Violent Crime Prevention Act of 1991

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.

GunsA yea counts toward “Gun rights”
model(0.98): Striking the prohibition on assault weapons expands gun rights.
Tagged by: keyword:firearm
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Repealing an assault weapons ban is a gun rights issue, not a clear reform vs punitive criminal justice move.
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 (247)

Nay (177)

Not voting or present (9)

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