This is why they have to stop waiting forever to pass these bills. They waited forever to bring this to a vote, and now it's too late.
Looks like this is dead along with the silencer bill http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/03/gop-leader-says-nra-backed-bill-shelved-indefinitely.html
The GOP leadership can now use it as an excuse to shelve it, since they didn't seem to be backing it anyway.
Not when the narrative of "Republicans are gunned down by a madman again" gains traction.
The only difference between the Arlington shooting and this one: the Arlington shooter shot at lawmakers, not nobodies.
The GOP leadership can now use it as an excuse to shelve it, since they didn't seem to be backing it anyway.
Republicans are too weak.
Now is the perfect time to extract a major objective from the Dems.
Want to regulate bump stocks?
Give us National Reciprocity
don't want to?
no deal then