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H.R. 60 — Knife Owners’ Protection Act of 2025

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

Knife Owners’ Protection Act — would clear the House (90%) but only 2% to ever get the vote.

2%
reaches a floor vote
×
99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
9%
survives downstream
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<1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 90% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 2% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 286 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 202–411 (quartiles 215–372). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the House would take it up; the branches:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
passage38% 263 [190–393] 86%
suspension62% 300 [206–414] 93%

Receipts

Sponsor: Andy Biggs (R). Latest action (2025-03-25): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 13 - 10.
Full record: Congress.gov.

Forecast run predict-20260606T193507Z · models member-vote-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 + passage-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 · conditional whip forecasts for the Senate run at moderate confidence (why).