Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) predicted with confidence on Thursday that the body will take up gun control legislation in 2014 after such an effort earlier this year.
Attending a private meeting with the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America, Reid was asked if gun control would be revisited before voters head to the polls for the midterms next year.
“I think sometime next year we’ll revisit that issue,” Reid said, as quoted by The Nation. “I’m almost certain of it.”
After an amendment that would have strengthened background checks on gun buyers failed in April, Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling found that a number of the senators who opposed the measure were facing a significant backlash at home.
