I did find it very surprising to read that the bill had been snuffed in committee, led by the efforts of one of its original co-sponsors. Here I was thinking that people had actually come to their senses of their own accord (naive, I know...) but after reading this, who knows?
I was also under the impression that being for all kinds of gun control was a sure winner in this state, and that being against the NRA was a badge of honor. Politics is a strange bird.