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“WE AREN’T GOING AWAY”
political agenda.
“We had to try to get some balance into the conversation,” he
said. “And we are in better shape
now than our critics and even
some within our ranks believed
possible when this battle started.”
That seems to be true. Bans on
assault weapons and high-capacity magazines — two of the most
popular and talked-about reforms
— are probably non-starters in
Congress and may not even get a
vote. An expansion of background
checks for gun sales, the core of a
Senate bill to be debated in April,
is by no means certain to pass the
upper chamber, w