Posted July 23, 2009 at 7:57 AM

Tagged: Max Baucus (MT, National) Tim Johnson (SD, National) Mark Udall (CO) Ken Salazar (CO, National) Jon Tester (MT, National) E. Benjamin Nelson (NE, National) Harry Reid (NV, National) John Thune (SD, National) Michael Bloomberg (NY, National)

http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_12895456?source=rss

Republicans in the U.S. Senate came within a hair's-breadth of passing a controversial expansion of gun rights Wednesday, an effort helped along by a massive defection of Western Democrats,...