House Roll Call 242, 106th Congress · June 18, 1999

Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act — H R 2122 QUESTION: ON PASSAGE MANDATORY GUN SHOW BACKGROUND CHECK ACT

Question before the chamber: On Passage

147 yea · 280 nayFailed8 not voting or present

Democrat10 yea · 195 nay

Republican137 yea · 84 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2122 ↗

Mandatory Gun Show Background Check 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.

GunsA yea counts toward “Gun restrictions”
model(0.95): Passage mandates background checks on gun show sales, increasing firearm restrictions.
Tagged by: keyword:background check
Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights
Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Mandatory background checks regulate firearm sales rather than criminal justice policy.
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 (147)

Nay (280)

Not voting or present (8)

Howard L. BermanDid not vote
Henry BonillaDid not vote
George E. Brown Jr.Did not vote
Jerry LewisDid not vote
David MingeDid not vote
Bill Pascrell, Jr.Did not vote
Matt SalmonDid not vote
William M. ThomasDid not vote

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