The vast majority of House Republicans caved to pressure from the gun lobby on Thursday and refused to back Democrats’ successful effort to extend the Violence Against Women Act for five years because of a new provision that would make it harder for abusers to acquire guns.

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The 1994 law provides protections and funds programs for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. It’s been reauthorized three times but expired in February. The new version passed the House 263-158 with support from all but one Democrat and only 33 Republicans. Read the full roll call results here.

It now faces an uphill battle in the GOP-controlled Senate.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is urging GOP lawmakers to oppose the updated version because of a gun-related provision to close the so-called “boyfriend loophole.”

As ThinkProgress explained earlier this week:

As the NRA and some Republican lawmakers condemned the provision as a politically motivated “poison pill,” one of its key proponents, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), referenced her childhood when speaking about the importance of keeping guns out of the hands of abusers.

“This is something that I care very, very deeply about, because I lived in that household,” she said outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. “I know what it’s like to live in a household with someone that has issues that can snap at a minute’s notice, and suddenly the gun is pointed at your mother or pointed at you. And as a child, you’re trying to grab a gun from someone and keep them from killing each other.”

Speaking on the House floor ahead of the vote Thursday, Dingell declared: “Do not let the NRA bully you. This is not a poison pill!”

“The NRA wants Congress to put the second amendment rights of abusers over the lives of the women and families who might die at their hands,” the National Organization for Women (NOW) said in a statement on Thursday.