[apillar]

I predict it passes the Senate...

I don't even see it getting that far, there are seven democrat senators up for reelection in 2014 from rural "red" states who DO NOT want to have to be put in a position where they have to vote on this, the only Republican still in the senate that supported the renewal of the 2004 Ban is Collins. I highly suspect that Harry Reid doesn't want to lose his title of Majority Leader over gun control considering that the democrats are going to have enough time holding the senate as it is. Besides even if he tried he would have a difficult if not impossible task of getting 50 votes, let alone the 60 needed to stop a filibuster. My guess is he will let it wither away in committee, then quietly die once the passions die down on the issue.

[Jim Noble]

considering that the democrats are going to have enough time holding the senate as it is

You voted for the ban on GOP Senate candidates discussing rape, birth control, or female body parts?

[apillar]

I'm actually slightly encouraged by this, if Feinstein had pushed a relativly mild bill like a straight up renewal of the 1994 ban, it...might...have stood a chance. But she, as the title states, "went for broke" and threw in "poison pill" crap like a registration scheme (guess she didn't learn from Canada...) and in doing so lost any chance that rural red state senate democrats and moderate republicans would get on board, let alone the Republican House.