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4/16/2013
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The good news is the Dems still don’t have 60 votes, the bad news is they’re only two or three short.
The Senate will vote Wednesday afternoon on what could be the biggest change in U.S. gun laws in nearly two years.
…Senators will take up the bipartisan proposal from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks on firearm purchases and close the so-called gun show loophole at 4 p.m…
Vice President Joe Biden told a former congressional aide Tuesday during a visit to the Capitol building that the Senate was just two votes short of reaching the 60-vote threshold needed to pass a gun reform bill through the chamber…
…“We will win,” Biden told Simon, who survived a gunshot wound in the shooting…
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Related: Parties’ Rifts Hinder Background Check Measure in Gun Bill
Deep divisions within both parties over a bipartisan measure to extend background checks for gun buyers are threatening its chances as the Senate this week begins debating the first broad gun control legislation in nearly 20 years.
In spite of a vote last Thursday in favor of debating new gun measures, some Democrats who are facing re-election next year in conservative states have already said they will not vote for the background check measure offered by Senators Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, forcing Democrats to look desperately across the aisle to fill the gaps…
…The Republican conflict came to the fore last week during a closed-door luncheon for Senate Republicans, when Senator Susan Collins, of Maine, eyes blazing, stood up and complained about a series of attack ads that she was facing back home from a gun-rights group with deep ties to Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky…
John Kerry: Foreign Students ‘Scared’ of Coming to U.S. Because of People ‘Running Around With Guns’
Secretary of State John Kerry says foreign students are “scared” of coming to the United States because they are used to a country “where people are not running around with guns.”
Update: Supreme Court passes on Second Amendment test case
The Supreme Court said on Monday that it won’t consider a case that would clarify the right to own a firearm outside the home for lawful purposes such as self-defense…
At Reason.com, New Gun Laws Won’t Prevent Another Sandy Hook
