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Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, speaks during the NRA Annual Meeting of Members at the National Rifle Association's 142 Annual Meetings and Exhibits in the George R. Brown Convention Center Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Houston. National Rifle Association leaders told members Saturday that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year's midterm elections, but they vowed that none in the organization will ever have to surrender their weapons. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)

WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the principal sponsors of defeated gun background check legislation says he isn't giving up on getting a bill passed.

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says backers of expanded background checks for gun purchases must focus on "where the comfort zone is" with gun owners.

A bill Manchin co-sponsored with Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania failed to clear the Senate last month. The National Rifle Association, which staunchly opposed the measure, celebrated its defeat at a convention in Houston.

Manchin tells "CBS This Morning" in an interview Tuesday that the NRA, of which he is a member, has been "rattling the cage" to stir up opposition to enhanced background checks. He says nothing in the legislation infringes on the 2nd Amendment rights of gun owners.


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    Steve wrote...
    They won't pass a ban because
    January 13, 2013 6:32 pm
    at the end of the day after the knee jerk reactions cool, they will protect the constitution.
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    UZI wrote...
    2A will take a big hit, maybe now maybe later.
    January 13, 2013 10:52 pm
    The fact that politicians are debating it at all means they feel it is being "mis-interpreted". They think they can "educate" us on the true meaning and they wont give up. My firearms wont be used to protect someone who uses 1A against 2A, they will have to live in the house they build.
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    UZI wrote...
    The issue isn't hardware, it's hardwire!
    January 13, 2013 11:04 pm
    The lack of respect for life instilled in a child and the shortage of "real" parents facilitate the violence. We played cops and robbers way back when and aside from real firearms we acted in real behaviors feigning death and shootouts with sound effects yet we still had reverence for life and respect for others and haven't commited a crime. I repeat, the issue isn't hardware, it's hardwire.
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    Michoacan wrote...
    Gun nuts continue to facilitate
    January 13, 2013 11:30 pm
    mass shootings.
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    wrote...
    government to blame
    January 14, 2013 12:06 am
    the government is to blame for all the shool shootings by not making our schools secure...period...... there is really not much you can do other than securing the schools..you have the pure evil, gangs, drug cartels, murders, mentally ill, predators.......until you solve all of this, which is not possible...people will be hurt.....and how about the 1000,s that dies on our highways , take the cars away from people....
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    Steve wrote...
    @Micho, you are correct
    January 14, 2013 6:16 am
    We've seen it quite heavily as they capitalize on the CT shooting with knee jerk reactions that trample the 2nd amendment. Foaming at the mouth gun nuts would take all guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens if they could.
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    Steve wrote...
    Where are the calls for Abortion Control?
    January 14, 2013 6:21 am
    Feinstein and the Left are calling for gun control after innocent children were murdered, yet they are also the same people who support and fund abortions in this Country. More than one million abortions between 2009 and 2012. As you can see, the Left is dripping with hypocracy when it comes to protecting the lives of children. I guess to the Left, life is important if it makes it past the abortion clinic.
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    Steve wrote...
    Reality Check
    January 14, 2013 6:23 am
    A bill to revive the U.S. assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 will hae a near impossible time winning passage in the Republican controlled House and Democratic led Senate.
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    2cents wrote...
    Sure, Congress wont likely pass it
    January 14, 2013 6:59 am
    But remember? Congress is but a figment of our imagination. It was overthrown about four years ago. Watch what happens when so-called Congress refuses to pass it. It is what we voted for.
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    sweetmama wrote...
    I see the Anointed One
    February 16, 2013 8:37 am
    is talking to stupid people again. The ones who can't connect the dots and see that the city with the strictest gun control in the country is the one with the most gun violence and highest record of kids being killed by thugs who don't obey laws. The Constitution was written by people much smarter than this fool and he wants to override it some more, while he ups the ante on NDAA to leave us all pawns of the government and declare open season on law abiding citizens. What could possibly go wrong?