Senator Chris Murphy on Sunday rejected the idea of getting President involved in his chamber's bipartisan negotiations on gun reform following a spate of devastating mass shootings - but said change was 'closer than ever before.' 'I think the Senate needs to do this ourselves. I have talked to the White House every single day since these negotiations began. But, right now, the Senate needs to handle these negotiations,' he said on 's State of the Union. It comes as Senators on both sides of the aisle are expressing a new optimism that years of gridlock on firearms legislation could finally be broken.
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