The U.S. Senate stood on the side of liberty today as it killed two measures aimed at restricting the rights of law-abiding private citizens. In a vote of 54-46, the Senate rejected the expansion of background checks to include sales between private citizens, thus keeping the so called "Gun Show Loophole" alive for now. Sen. Dianne Feinstein could not even rally a simple majority vote in her attempt to restrict law-abiding citizens from owning weapons she feels are objectionable. Her bill failed by an embarrassing margin of 40-60. Both of these represent huge defeats to the Obama Administration.
Feinstein and fellow fearmongers are seeing the lack of public support for her efforts by the lack of legislative support. If legislators gave support to Feinstein, they would find themselves out of office during the following election cycle. The gun control anti-rights advocates are seeing public backlash at bad legislation.
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