The firearms industry's trade group handed Cline its top honor in April and listed exactly what he did to earn it — zeroing out the silencer tax, leading the bill to pull silencers out of federal law, and writing a bill during the shutdown to keep gun paperwork moving.
In March 2021 he called background checks a 'simple fix' that promotes 'safe, sensible, and responsible gun ownership.' After 19 children were killed at Robb Elementary, he voted against every gun bill the House put on the floor — including the one that became law.
Two days after the Oregon District massacre, Mike Turner promised to support a ban on military-style weapons, a magazine limit, and red flag legislation. In 2022 he voted against all three. The press release is no longer on his website.
Nearly 4 in 10 Mississippi women experience intimate partner violence. Trent Kelly, a former city prosecutor and district attorney, voted no on VAWA reauthorization in 2019 and again in 2021.
Silencers have been registered under the National Firearms Act since 1934. Cloud's SHUSH Act strikes them from the statute, waives the registration requirement, takes them out of the Gun Control Act, and voids state silencer taxes and registration rules. He also cosponsored the bill to put handguns back in the mail.
You have been able to carry a gun in a national park since 2010. The one thing still off-limits is inside the visitor center and the ranger station. Yakym's Federal Lands Lawful Carry Act would end that — endorsed by the NRA, Gun Owners of America and the Second Amendment Foundation.
In 2023 he campaigned for mayor on banning assault weapons in Indianapolis, restoring its concealed-carry permit requirement and raising the buying age to 21. The NRA gave him an F and warned voters he was faking an A rating. Then he won a red seat — and signed on to a bill overriding gun permit laws nationwide.
H.R. 38 would let residents of the 29 states with no permit requirement carry concealed guns in North Carolina — no class, no live fire, no sheriff. The nation's largest police union says it also strips officers of the power to check.
Crank's Armed Forces Carry Rights Protection Act would write a presumption in favor of carrying personal guns on military installations into permanent law — the opposite of what the Pentagon's own suicide-prevention committee recommended.