Hopes could not have been higher for passage of the Senate’s gun-control bill last week after Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania struck a compromise on background checks. After all, Manchin and Toomey are de facto poster boys for the NRA – the gun-lobbying group most members of congress… Read more.
Senate Rejects Even Watered-down Gun-Control Bill
Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 7:06 AM