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House Roll Call 504, 99th Congress · April 9, 1986

TO AMEND THE VOLKMER (D, MO) SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO HR 4332, TO REMOVE PROVISIONS WHICH PREEMPT STATE AND LOCAL LAWS TO ALLOW TRANSPORTATION OF HANDGUNS BETWEEN STATES.

177 yea · 242 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat137 yea · 101 nay
Republican39 yea · 140 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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): Removing state preemption permits local criminal prosecution for handgun transport.

    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 (178)

Nay (242)

Not voting or present (14)

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