The Kentucky Republican told HuffPost that most people assume the gun bill died organically. And the demise of the legislation might indicate that there’s a new, even more gun-crazed sheriff in Congress: the National Association for Gun Rights. Congress knows the legislation Republicans wanted to pass isn’t actually going anywhere. Bringing The Heat With the Cornyn amendment in the Senate and the counterterrorism package in the House, NAGR sent 850,000 “petitions” ― essentially form letters ― to Congress. But whichever narrative you choose to believe ― a bill dying because a rambunctious gun group pressured the right members, or because the votes were never there ― Congress, once again, did nothing.

Source: Huffington Post August 01, 2016 22:05 UTC