http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/senate-gun-control-orlando-224505 Senate braces for showdown over gun control
Negotiations went through the weekend, but it's unlikely they'll amount to anything more than election-year posturing.
By Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim
06/20/16 05:17 AM EDT
Spurred by the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, the Senate will vote Monday on a quartet of bills to prevent terrorists from buying weapons and overhaul the national background check system for firearms purchases.
But the chamber’s big gun show on Monday is expected to be just that: political theater.
All four proposals are reheated versions of legislation the Senate rejected in the past. Despite a flurry of negotiations over the past week, and some movement among centrist Republicans toward a compromise that continued over the weekend, there’s little indication the outcome will be any different this time.
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