Is Federal gun control legislation dead because of the results of the mid-term election?

  In this post on November 5th I briefly wrote about who the biggest losers in the mid-term election were; the gun control advocates. Now this post is stating that for all intents and purposes it appears as if any legislation on gun control on the Federal level is dead. (If nothing passes during the lame duck session that is.)

  Here is more:

Gun control advocates, who poured tens of millions of dollars into the election cycle, maintain that they made important strides at the state level, including a win on a Washington State ballot measure expanding background checks for gun sales.
 
Yet even they acknowledged that the odds of federal action in Washington in the next Congress just got a lot longer.
 
“After Tuesday’s midterm results, it looks even more apparent that it’s not going to be anytime soon,” Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, acknowledged.

“But make no mistake, our ultimate goal is for federal legislation to finish the job around background checks,” he added. “It may not be tomorrow, but we’re not going anywhere until it passes.”

    How effective was the NRA and people who support the second amendment?

The NRA duked it out with gun control groups in the midterm elections, endorsing 279 congressional candidates and spending more than $25 million.

 The group’s campaign efforts were overwhelmingly successful, as more than 90 percent of the candidates it backed won their races.

  So is gun control legislation dead on the Federal level? It appears so however the key word in that question is ‘legislation’. We cannot sit back and relax feeling as if our job is done here because we must remember Barack Obama has a pen and a phone and he is not afraid to use them.

  We can rest assured that the President is not going to take his eye off the ball and neither can we.