A bipartisan proposal to require background checks on the sale of firearms at gun shows and over the Internet has failed to advance in the United States Senate after being successfully filibustered by forty-one Republicans and four Democrats. By a vote of fifty-four to forty-six (with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid voting nay so that […]
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