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Posted: 3/9/2013 7:28:17 PM EST
FILE - This Jan. 10, 2013 file photo shows U.S. Sen. Max Baucus addressing the Montana Legislature in Helena, Mont. Democrats who long ago embraced pro-gun politics to gain a foothold in Western and other gun-friendly states are facing constituents angry with Washington's renewed call for a ban on assault weapons _ and they are doing so very cautiously. In Montana, the Clinton-era assault weapon ban vote nearly sank U.S. Sen. Baucus in 1996 _ and with Baucus up for re-election in 2014, gun advocates want to make sure he remembers his vote for the ban. (AP Photo/The Independent Record, Dylan Brown, file)
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Posted: 1/19/2013 2:33:24 PM EST
Demonstrators rally outside the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 to assert their right to own firearms and to denounce recent gun-control efforts. Gun owners say they are gathering at the state Capitol for one of a slate of firearms-rights demonstrations around the nation. New York this week passed the nation's toughest assault weapon and magazine restrictions. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)
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Posted: 1/18/2013 3:08:22 AM EST
FILE - In a Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, Independent Senator-elect Angus King speaks at a news conference, in Freeport, Maine. King says he’s reluctant to endorse a federal ban on the kind of assault weapon used in last month’s Connecticut school shooting. The newly-elected senator, an independent, told the Associated Press on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 that he supports universal background checks and limits on high-capacity ammunition clips as proposed this week by President Barack Obama. But King says he hasn’t decided whether to embrace a ban on new assault weapons. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
