Unfortunately, this story is behind the CQ paywall and it appears they broke the story because nobody else has this yet. If it’s accurate this will be huge blow to the gun grabbers. All of that talk of the “90%! 90%!” from talking heads like Joe Scarborough and writers such as Greg Sargent seems to be quickly fizzling out. Here are some tweets from writer John Gramlich:
BREAKING from CQ ($): Leahy says Bloomberg hurt gun debate, says background checks bill won't return http://t.co/AW1GfheFHM
— John Gramlich (@johngramlich) August 1, 2013
Leahy on background checks: "It is not going to get through now, and it’s unfortunate." http://t.co/AW1GfheFHM
— John Gramlich (@johngramlich) August 1, 2013
Leahy: Bloomberg “actually didn’t help a bit with his ads. He actually turned off some people that we might have gotten for supporters.”
— John Gramlich (@johngramlich) August 1, 2013
Again, huge news. We’ll update the story as more outlets have it.