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Anti guns groups now feel defiant

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On the one hand, the article talks about the $30 million spent by the NRA to get Trump elected, which is composed of millions of individual members, but yet says nothing about the amount of
money donated to the other side by a few people like Bloomberg.

Donald Trump, darling of the National Rifle Association, has custody of the Oval Office. The Republican-controlled Congress already has ditched one Obama-era rule to tighten access to guns. And an emboldened NRA has much more ambitious plans afoot for easing state and national gun laws as its annual convention unfolds this weekend in Atlanta.

But gun control advocates do not want your pity, thank you very much.

The groups that stand in opposition to looser gun laws say they are ready to rumble, as the NRA enjoys a post-election payoff moment Friday when Trump becomes the first president to appear at its convention since Ronald Reagan in 1983.

"We have become the David to the NRA's Goliath," says Shannon Watts, who founded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America following the 2012 shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut. The group is now part of Everytown for Gun Safety, which is backed by billionaire Michael Bloomberg and is the largest organization fighting gun violence in the U.S.

"We feel much more invigorated because we know how important this is, given that Donald Trump is president" and the NRA spent more than $30 million to help him get there, says Watts.

Count on similar sentiments from other groups seeking tighter gun rules as the convention kicks off Friday.
"There's no doubt that the election of Donald Trump was a major setback for the gun control movement," says Adam Winkler, a UCLA law professor and expert on gun policy. "Although President Obama was not able to get any new gun control legislation passed, under President Trump the NRA is going to be looking to loosen gun laws and is likely to succeed."

Groups advocating tougher gun laws acknowledge there's little prospect for them to make gains at the national level. But they point to increasing success in recent years in the states, where they have enacted a number of measures to require universal background checks and tighten access to guns for domestic abusers.
Everytown President John Feinblatt says a top priority for gun control groups right now is defeating NRA-backed efforts to enact a national "concealed-carry reciprocity" law that would require all states to recognize other states' concealed carry permits. Gun control groups helped beat back such proposals in Congress in 2009, 2011 and 2013, and once again "we're planning for this never to get to the president's desk," says Feinblatt.

The legislation is the chit that "the NRA wants the most from Donald Trump" after spending millions on his behalf, says Feinblatt.
I thought that one of the reasons it never got to the President's desk the last time was that it was going to be vetoed by the former President anyway, and wouldn't pass by a veto proof majority. That shouldn't be an issue this time around. Does legislation like this require 60 Senate votes to pass?
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M-Quigley wrote:Does legislation like this require 60 Senate votes to pass?
Not to pass, but to reach cloture - that is, to end debate and send it to the floor for a vote for passage. Preventing the 60 vote threshold from being reached is called a filibuster, and it is how a party in the minority wields power in the Senate. Republicans used it to great effect of the past 8 years, and it appears the Democrats are going to do likewise while they are in the minority.
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