How Hard Will Reid Push Gun Control?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) “evolution from a proponent of gun rights to the shepherd of legislation that would expand background checks, among other gun control measures, emerges from a complex web of political calculations that have come to define his leadership style over the last decade,” the New York Times reports.

“How tenacious Mr. Reid is willing to be — and whether he will extract votes one by one as he has for other big pieces of legislation — may well determine the fate of the measures.”