That effort fell short, a demonstration of the limits of the billionaire mayor's largess in Congress and the relative power of gun-rights groups such as the National Rifle Association.
But the gun lobby gets its fire power from the gun manufacturers.
Although rates of gun ownership, like rates of violent crime, are falling, the power of the gun lobby is not.
If, when only 8% of Americans oppose the policy, you can't get a law that is designed to keep criminals and the insane from buying guns because of the power of the gun lobby, you certainly aren't going to get anything like confiscation when there would be massive opposition.
Mr. Skelos, in a deal with Mr. Cuomo and Democrats with whom he shares power, allowed the gun laws to come up for a vote.
In addition to strengthening the ATF's enforcement power, we need to attack gun trafficking at its source by limiting the high-volume gun sales that fuel trafficking from licensed dealers.
" Mr. Baker said he made clear that the NRA "would do everything in our power'' to see that new gun-ownership restrictions don't pass.
Can you tell us when he talks about using the power of his office whether that includes using the power of his office to push for tighter gun control?
"I want to see legislators make correct appraisals, not emotional responses, " said Richard Feldman, who was regional political director for the NRA during its rise to power in the 1980s and is president of a gun rights group called the Independent Firearm Owners Association.
CNN: Gun owners fear new legislation could tread on their rights
With the power to create money, Mr Draghi owns the biggest gun of all.
Where media budget and creativity used to be the gun powder of a campaign, now the real fire power comes from creativity itself.
President Obama reiterates his commitment to do everything in his power to implement a series of common sense measures that would reduce gun violence in America.
Mr. BERNTSEN: Exactly, because there were so few of us and so many of the enemy that, you don't want to be in gun fights with people like that, you want to use air power, you want to leverage technology.
Obama's power and the impassioned pleas of devastated families were no match for the force of gun rights advocates.
If the African-American community also sees the power of the ballot to overcome other historical obstacles such as entrenched poverty, widening wealth, education gaps and safer streets where it's not as easy for a criminal to get a gun as it is to buy a cigarette, then this expansion of its voting power will be a more permanent fixture on the political scene.
President Obama, in a video response to a 400, 000 signature petition calling for gun control, says "we hear you", adding he will do everything in his power to ban assault rifles.
Both sides are aware that gun-owners' rights are taking shape as a campaign issue that could shift the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
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