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House Roll Call 80, 102nd Congress · May 8, 1991

BRADY HANDGUN PREVENTION ACT — (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 7, TO AMEND TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, TO REQUIRE A WAITING PERIOD BEFORE THE PURCHASE OF A HANDGUN.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

239 yea · 186 nayPassed5 not voting or present
Democrat177 yea · 77 nay
Republican60 yea · 108 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7 ↗

Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

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 (0.75) Establishing a handgun waiting period does not cleanly map onto the 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 (239)

Nay (186)

Not voting or present (5)

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