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: individual right to self-defense at home and as self-defense
Source: Citizens' Self-Defense Act (H.R.347)
Declares that a person not prohibited under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act from receiving a firearm shall have the right to obtain firearms for security and to use firearms in defense of:
self or family against a reasonably perceived threat of imminent and unlawful infliction of serious bodily injury;
self or family in the course of the commission by another person of a violent felony against the person or a member of the person's family; and
the person's home in the course of the commission of a felony by another person.
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: Individual right to self-defense at home and as self-defense
(Score: 2)
