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House Roll Call 508, 99th Congress · April 10, 1986

TO ADOPT HR 4332, A BILL TO AMEND CHAPTER 44 OF TITLE 18, US CODE (THE 1968 GUN CONTROL ACT.)

292 yea · 130 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat127 yea · 117 nay
Republican167 yea · 16 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 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.

  • GunsA yea counts toward “Gun rights”

    model(0.90): Passing the bill eases federal gun restrictions, advancing gun rights.

    Tagged by: keyword:gun control

    Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.75): Amending the Gun Control Act to ease restrictions and limit federal enforcement is reform-oriented.

    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 (296)

Nay (134)

Not voting or present (4)

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