This page contains bill sponsorships in the Senate and House.
Bill sponsorships indicate the topics that legislators are most interested in, and spend the most time on.
Bill Sponsorship: Veterans' Heritage Firearms Act
Source: HR420/S798
- Provides a 90-day amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can register in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record any firearm acquired before October 31, 1968, by a veteran while a member of the Armed Forces stationed outside the continental United States.
- Grants such an individual limited immunity with respect to the acquisition, possession, transportation, or alteration of such firearm before or concurrent with such registration.
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Extends such immunity to a veteran who attempts to register a qualifying firearm outside of the amnesty period if the veteran surrenders the firearm within 30 days after being notified of potential criminal liability for continued possession.
- Transfers each firearm qualifying as a curio or relic which has been forfeited to the United States to the first qualified museum that requests it
- Publishes information identifying each such firearm which is available to be transferred to a museum.
- Makes a prohibition against transfer or possession of a machine-gun inapplicable to museums.
Participating counts on VoteMatch question 10.
Question 10: Absolute right to gun ownership
Scores: -2=Strongly oppose; -1=Oppose; 0=neutral; 1=Support; 2=Strongly support.
- Topic: Gun Control
- Headline: Sponsored veterans registering unlicensed guns from abroad
(Score: 1)
- Headline 2: Allow veterans to register unlicensed guns acquired abroad
(Score: 1)
- Key for participation codes:
- Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
- Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
- Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
- Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred
- Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.
Democrats
participating in 11-S0798 |
Max Baucus |
s2o | MT Democratic Sr Senator (retiring 2014) | Jun 23, 2011 |
Mark Begich |
s2o | AK Democratic Jr Senator | Oct 3, 2011 |
Patrick Leahy |
s2o | VT Democratic Sr Senator | Apr 12, 2011 |
Joe Manchin III |
s2o | WV Democratic Senator | Jul 11, 2011 |
Ben Nelson |
s2o | NE Democratic Sr Senator (Retiring) | Nov 7, 2011 |
Mark Pryor |
s2o | AR Democratic Sr Senator | May 18, 2011 |
Jeanne Shaheen |
s2o | NH Democratic Sr Senator | Jun 27, 2011 |
Jon Tester |
s1p | MT Democratic Jr Senator | |
James Webb |
s2o | VA Democratic Sr Senator (Retiring) | Jun 23, 2011 |
Republicans
participating in 11-S0798 |
John Boozman |
s2o | AR Republican Jr Senator | Jul 19, 2011 |
Saxby Chambliss |
s2o | GA Republican Sr Senator (retiring 2014) | Jul 11, 2011 |
Tom Coburn |
s2o | OK Republican Jr Senator; previously Representative | Oct 6, 2011 |
Michael Enzi |
s2o | WY Republican Sr Senator | Sep 21, 2011 |
Chuck Grassley |
s2o | IA Republican Sr Senator | Aug 1, 2011 |
Dean Heller |
s2o | Nevada Republican (Resigned 2011) | Jul 19, 2011 |
James Inhofe |
s2o | OK Republican Sr Senator | Jun 9, 2011 |
John McCain |
s2o | AZ Republican Sr Senator | Apr 12, 2011 |
Jerry Moran |
s2o | Kansas Republican (until 2010) | Jul 11, 2011 |
Lisa Murkowski |
s2o | AK Republican Sr Senator | Dec 12, 2011 |
Rob Portman |
s2o | OH Republican Jr Senator | Mar 27, 2012 |
Pat Roberts |
s2o | KS Republican Sr Senator | Jul 20, 2011 |
John Thune |
s2o | SD Republican Jr Senator; previously Representative | Sep 6, 2011 |
Independents
participating in 11-S0798 |
Total recorded by OnTheIssues:
Democrats:
9
Republicans:
13
Independents:
0 |
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