Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), a veteran of the last successful push to enact gun control in Congress back in the 1990s, told a progressive audience Monday that the current push for new gun regulations after the Newtown, Conn., shooting will be a tougher lift than President Clinton had to contend with when he passed an assault weapons ban through a Democratic Congress.
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