In mid-April a bi-partisan amendment sponsored by Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) that would have expanded background checks to gun shows and Internet sales went down to defeat in the U.S. Senate, coming up six votes short of the 60-vote threshold to overcome a filibuster.
The rejection by the Senate was considered a stunning rebuke to gun control activists who had rallied around having Washington come up with some new regulations in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut last December, where 26 people were gunned down, 20 of them children, in the second deadliest mass shooting by a single person in American history.…
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