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CHART: How Have Your Members Of Congress Voted On Gun Bills?

Search members of Congress by state to find out how they have voted on key gun legislation in recent years.
Source: Alyson Hurt and Danielle Kurtzleben

After the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history in Las Vegas last year, lawmakers discussed imposing restrictions on "bump stocks." The Las Vegas shooter used that type of gun modification, which makes a semi-automatic weapon fire like an automatic weapon, and killed 58 people.

After a gunman killed 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, last November, lawmakers discussed how they could improve the background check system.

No new laws came of those discussions.

Now, after a gunman killed

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