15-hour filibuster ends early Thursday morning in the US Senate

The National Rifle Association, meanwhile, warned its members this week that the measures would threaten the constitutional right to own firearms.

“We are not asking people to do anything very hard, all you got to do is put your hand up and then put it down”, Casey said.

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Good news for Democrats is a rarity on Capitol Hill but Democratic senators were exultant early Thursday after a almost 15-hour filibuster by Sen.

It has been almost a decade since Congress passed significant gun reforms. Thirty-two people died in the shooting.

Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose proposal would allow the USA attorney general to stop any terrorist suspect from acquiring a gun, told reporters that the gun control votes would likely be held on Tuesday.

In December, the Republican-controlled Senate voted against the proposal 45-54, nearly entirely along party lines. By the end of the filibuster, Senate Republicans had agreed to hold votes on both terror watchlist and background check legislation.

The shooter was identified as Omar Mateen, who worked for security company G4S. But he was pulled from that database when that investigation was closed 10 months later.

“Maybe we won’t convince them on background checks, where they’re dug in a little bit more, but, you know, I challenge Republicans - especially those who are up for election - to vote against preventing terrorists, those who are on the no-fly list, from getting guns”, Murphy said.

Number two Senate Republican John Cornyn huddled with Democrat Dianne Feinstein about how to resolve differences over the due process for people who feel they have been wrongly put on a watch list.

No formal deal was announced, but Senate Republican aides said lawmakers were working on possible amendments to an appropriations bill funding the commerce and justice departments.

This past week, the NRA made robo-calls in Pennsylvania urging people to contact their senators and “express their strong opposition to any new gun control laws”.

In a statement, the NRA reiterated its support for an alternate bill from Cornyn that would let the government delay firearms sales to suspected terrorists for up to 72 hours. Cornyn defended the bill and emphasized the importance of granting due-process protections to people placed wrongfully on the watch list.

“We can’t accept that the only point of leverage that we have are these mass shootings - that was the point of our filibuster yesterday, is that this is happening every day”, he said.

Murphy’s filibuster was the ninth longest in history.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid also sounded cynical.

With a compromise on the gun issue still improbable, Sen.

In the GOP-controlled House, Republicans had no plans to act on guns and minority Democrats were unable to force any action, given House rules less favourable to the minority than in the Senate.