Skip to content
Their Record

House Roll Call 505, 99th Congress · April 10, 1986

TO AMEND THE VOLKMER (D, MO) SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO HR 4332, TO BAN THE INTERSTATE SALE OF HANDGUNS.

233 yea · 184 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat161 yea · 79 nay
Republican72 yea · 109 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): Banning interstate handgun sales maintains strict criminal prohibitions.

    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 (236)

Nay (188)

Not voting or present (10)

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.