At a press conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama described the Senate vote that defeated a bipartisan compromise to establish expanded background checks on gun sales as “round one” in the fight. Obama vowed the White House would keep pushing to address this issue and also urged Americans to push politicians and lobbyists to end their opposition to “common-sense gun legislation.”
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