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Senate Roll Call 102, 113th Congress · April 17, 2013

To protect the Second Amendment rights of veterans and their families.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

56 yea · 44 nayAmendment Rejected
Democrat9 yea · 43 nay
Republican45 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 649

Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013

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(0.90): Protecting Second Amendment rights of veterans expands firearm ownership rights.

    Tagged by: keyword:second amendment

    Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Veterans' firearm rights do not clearly align with a punitive vs. reform-oriented criminal justice 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.

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.