Gun control bill clears its first hurdle in Senate

Friday, April 12, 2013

WASHINGTON -- Congress' most serious gun-control effort in years cleared its first hurdle Thursday as the Senate pushed past conservatives' attempted blockade under the teary gaze of families of victims of December's Connecticut school shootings.

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