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S. 1374119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
BUMP Act
Sponsored by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) · 30 active : 1 Republican, 27 Democrats, 2 Independents
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Where it standsBefore the Senate3 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govBanning Unlawful Machinegun Parts Act or the BUMP Act
This bill generally prohibits the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, receipt, or possession of
a device that is primarily designed, or redesigned, to increase the rate of fire when attached to a semiautomatic firearm;
a device, part, or combination of parts that is designed and functions to increase the rate of fire of a firearm; or
a semiautomatic firearm that has been modified to materially increase the rate of fire or to approximate the action or rate of fire of a machine gun.
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Additionally, the bill adds to the list of firearms subject to regulation under the National Firearms Act semiautomatic firearms that have been modified to materially increase the rate of fire or approximate the action or rate of fire of a machine gun.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReferred to
Subjects
No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 3Swing 70–100
- 50Middle 30–70
- 47Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
30 activeShow all 30 cosponsors
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Richard Blumenthal
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
