We found that the NRA and the pro-gun rights voices are winning the influence battle and will continue to be strong and more influential if the pro gun control voice remains fragmented.
The shooting revived fierce debate over America's controversial gun control laws, with some pro-gun politicians saying it had prompted them to change their views on the issue.
The shooting has revived fierce debate over the US's controversial gun control laws, with some pro-gun politicians saying it has prompted them to change their views on the issue.
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But correspondents say that Democrats are now less reluctant to pursue gun control legislation than before, after two pro-gun senators said they supported action in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Gun-control groups have gained political influence but they face a powerful pro-gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association, which insists it has the constitution on its side.
The anti-gun, abortion-rights liberal Democratic leadership does not naturally gibe with the many pro-gun, anti-abortion union members.
Gun control groups gave the deal warm but not effusive praise, noting that unknown details and some pro-gun provisions gave them pause.
On Thursday, the vice-president is scheduled to meet the National Rifle Association, the powerful pro-gun group.
Majority rules would have also opened the bill to pro-gun amendments that were likely to pass.
That strategy seemed to work in the congressional elections of 2006, when pro-gun Democrats did well.
Pro-gun Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Mark Warner have also signalled that they are reconsidering their positions.
Casey, the state treasurer, is a pro-gun rights, anti-abortion Democrat whose family name carries weight in Pennsylvania politics.
He said the pro-gun lobby had "lied" about the bill, that the vote was a "shameful" day for Washington.
The pro-gun side focuses on cases of legitimate self-defense (and hunting and target-shooting).
The shooting came hours after pro-gun activists staged rallies across the United States to demonstrate against stricter gun control laws.
He is evangelical, anti-abortion and pro-gun, but manages to be all those things without appearing as abrasive as Mrs Palin.
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Obama appealed to the pro-gun lobby who he said "has members who are mothers and fathers" likely impacted by the shooting.
Democrats have said the background check measure would stand the best chance of garnering bipartisan support, including from some pro-gun Democrats.
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The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a pro-gun group based in Newtown, estimated gun manufacturing accounted for 7, 300 jobs in the state.
House Speaker Tim Jones vowed this past week that Missouri's Republican supermajorities would still pass some sort of pro-gun measure this year.
Meanwhile, four Democrats from pro-gun states voted with most Republicans in opposition.
But the pro-gun National Rifle Association (NRA), which has more than four million members, has rejected the need for tighter gun control.
But he still backs Mr McCain because he is pro-gun and anti-taxes.
That way the men could argue that the case should be heard in Utah, considered more conservative and pro-gun than Washington, AP said.
Obama's election as the first African-American president and his pro-gun control stance have fueled the increase in anti-government groups, according to the report.
Where some may have hoped for concessions on the NRA's staunch pro-gun, guns-don't-kill-people-people-kill-people stance, the NRA stayed the course, and even doubled down.
Rarely has any pro-gun-rights Democrat representing a rural and Southern district broken with the NRA's position on key votes, especially in an election year.
And a pro-gun group, the Montana Shooting Sports Association, has set up a website that is updated with Baucus' public statements on gun policy.
With at least two moderate Democrats from pro-gun states known to oppose the measure, it needs at least seven GOP votes to have any chance of passing.
Manchin is among a small group of conservative Democrats with high rankings from the NRA for pro-gun rights legislative stances who has suggested revisiting gun control policies.
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