House Roll Call 503, 99th Congress · April 9, 1986

TO AMEND THE VOLKMER (D, MO) SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO H R 4332, TO PROHIBIT INTERSTATE SALES OF HANDGUNS, TO REMOVE PROVISIONS WHICH PREEMPT STATE AND LOCAL LAWS TO ALLOW TRANSPORTATION OF HANDGUNS BETWEEN STATES, TO ELIMINATE LANGUAGE WHICH CHANGES THE EXISTING LAW REGARDING DEALER LICENSING, TO KEEP CURRENT RECORD-KEEPING REQUIREMENTS, AND TO PROHIBIT SILENCERS.

176 yea · 248 nay9 not voting or present

Democrat136 yea · 105 nay

Republican38 yea · 143 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4332 ↗

Firearms Owners' Protection 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 JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.80): Prohibiting handgun sales and silencers maintains criminal bans and enforcement.
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 (177)

Nay (248)

Not voting or present (9)

Joseph Patrick AddabboDid not vote
Marvin Henry EdwardsDid not vote
John GrotbergDid not vote
Cecil Landau HeftelDid not vote
Manuel Luján Jr.Did not vote
Matthew G. MartínezDid not vote
William Flynt NicholsDid not vote
George Miller O’BrienDid not vote
Louis StokesDid not vote

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