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OOPS: Dems Now Worried That Gun Control Efforts Could Cost Them In 2018 Races

Emily Zanotti

Democrats may be publicly planning a major effort to increase regulations on so-called “assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines” but privately, the party is concerned they’ve already gone too far on the issue, and it may be costing them in some 2018 swing districts.

According to reports in The Hill, Democrats are ready and willing to take action on gun control — and they feel intense pressure to do so from the far left, for whom the issue is front and center — but many of the 2018 Democrats up for re-election are from conservative districts and “blue states” that went for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, and not Hillary Clinton.

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