The Hughes Amendment cover-up by democrats - (banned a civilian from ownership or transfer rights of any fully automatic weapon which was not registered as of May 19, 1986)
There is a document that claims to be researched by one Alfonso I. Garza, and appears to be a House Congressional Record from April 10th, 1986, the day the Bill was passed in the House of Representatives. It clearly shows that Amendment 777 was voted on by a voice vote, and declared to have passed by Rep. Rangel, the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole. Rep. Sensenbrenner demanded a recorded vote, and Record Vote 73 was taken. It failed, with a tally of aye: 124 no: 298 nv: 12. There are claims that the vote was later overturned by Record Vote 74, but this is ridiculous. First, Record Vote 74 is listed in the Library of Congress Records as being taken on Amendment 770, which was brought by Rep. Volkmer. Second, Record Vote 74 shows that Rep. Hughes voted No. If this vote was really on the machine gun ban that he proposed, why would he vote against it?
The Library of Congress Record (found here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d099:HR04332:@@@L&summ2=m&;), shows that there was no recorded vote on Amendment 777, and in fact, there is no trace anywhere of Record Vote 73 on the page. The above Congressional Record (unproven- your own research will have to find the true Government copy to verify) clearly mentions a recorded vote on the Amendment, which did not pass (Record Vote 73), but the Library of Congress record makes no mention at all of a recorded vote. It simply says that the Amendment passed by a Voice Vote, which is what Rep. Rangel claimed.
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