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House Roll Call 958, 104th Congress · March 22, 1996

Gun Crime Enforcement and Second Amendment Restoration Act — H.R.125 BY CHAPMAN (D-TX) -- GUN CRIME ENFORCEMENT AND SECOND AMENDMENT RESTORATION ACT OF 1996 (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 125, TO REPEAL THE BAN ON SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS AND THE BAN ON LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEED DEVICES.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

239 yea · 173 nayPassed19 not voting or present
Democrat56 yea · 129 nay
Republican183 yea · 43 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 125 ↗

Gun Crime Enforcement and Second Amendment Restoration Act of 1996

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(0.95): Repealing bans on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines expands gun rights.

    Tagged by: keyword:second amendment,ammunition

    Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Repealing a firearm ban is a gun policy issue and does not clearly align with criminal justice reform/punitive axes.

    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 (173)

Not voting or present (19)

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