Gun-control groups are shifting efforts and resources to handful of states

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gun-control-groups-are-shifting-efforts-and-resources-to-handful-of-states/2013/12/11/f81e41b2-61f4-11e3-8beb-3f9a9942850f_story.html?tid=hpModule_f8335a3c-868c-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394

Gun-control activists have largely given up on Congress, which did not pass background-check legislation after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., last December that killed 20 children and six adults. The groups are shifting their resources to a handful of states such as Colorado, where they have hired political operatives to try to build permanent gun-control movements.