>I've said it before and I'll say it again, I wish the rest of the Constitution had as successfull a group defending it as the NRA does for the 2nd.
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>In a major defeat for supporters of tougher gun laws, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday defeated a compromise plan to expand background checks on firearms sales as well as a proposal to ban some semi-automatic weapons modeled after military assault weapons.
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>The votes were on a series of amendments to a broad package of gun laws pushed by President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in the aftermath of the Newtown school massacre in December.
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>However, fierce opposition by the powerful National Rifle Association led a backlash by conservative Republicans and some Democrats from pro-gun states that doomed some of the major proposals in the gun package.
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>http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/politics/senate-guns-vote/index.html

Disgusting. NRA could care less who gets a gun or for what reason.