The Thune Amendment, a gun de-control measure attached to another bill, was defeated in the Senate today. Washington Post:

Supporters included all but two Republicans and 20 Democrats, but the vote of 58 to 39 in favor fell two short of the 60 needed to defeat a filibuster.

Despite its defeat, the amendment, sponsored by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), demonstrated the continuing power of the National Rifle Association and the gun rights issue in Congress. Rather than a setback, those backing the effort consider the vote a sign of strength for the Second Amendment and are planning more gun-related amendments to other legislation throughout the year. Afterward, Thune said he hopes the Senate will "reconsider this important issue" later this year. [...]Big-city mayors, such as New York's Michael R. Bloomberg (I), also voiced opposition, as did gun victims groups, such as families of students killed in the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. "This bill is an anti-police, pro-gun-trafficker bill," Bloomberg said on the eve of the vote. "It is a bill that will make the police's job much more difficult and much more dangerous, and it will make the streets of our country -- not just big cities, it's small towns as well -- it will make them much more dangerous than they have to be."

Both New York Senators voted against the amendment, and it's worth pointing out that mayor Bloomberg vocally opposed the amendment as well.  read more »

Via the New York Times:

The Senate on Wednesday turned aside the latest attempt by gun advocates to expand the rights of gun owners, narrowly voting down a provision that would have allowed gun owners with valid permits from one state to carry concealed weapons in other states.

The Amendment passed by 58 to 42, just two votes shy of a filibuster. Both New York Senators voted against the amendment, which aligns them with the Bloomberg administration; the mayor has been, frankly a fierce critic of the Amendment, leading a bipartisan group of mayors to in the now-successful defeat of the amendment in the Senate.

To quote the mayor via Ben Smith,

Saying that you will bring down crime by giving more people guns is just absurd, that’s the nicest way to put it. And, you know, only somebody who doesn’t- who plays- foot loose and fancy free with the facts and has an agenda would have the nerve to say something like that.