All of this is expected to play out over a series of legislative confrontations.

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But he also laid out a series of legislative proposals that would require congressional action, and this was among those.

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The so-called "gun-show loophole" proved to be the most inflammatory issue of the juvenile justice debate and the Senate's ultimate OK of the Lautenberg amendment came only after a convoluted series of legislative moves.

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