NRA ardor, clout overwhelm gun-control groups, for now
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As lawmakers gathered in the U. S. Senate on Wednesday to vote on a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers, staffers in the office of Alaska Democratic Senator Mark Begich fielded a steady stream of calls urging him to break with his party and vote against the measure. Those callers got what they wanted: Begich voted no – one of four Democrats from gun-friendly states to do so – and the most ambitious gun-control push in two decades went down to defeat. . . .
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