The gun-grabbers are at it again, or at least they were until Eric Holder’s call for a new assault weapons ban ran into a wall of bipartisan opposition in Congress. The administration told him to pipe down and talk of an assault weapons ban has died with it. But the coverage of all this is amusing. Take Newsweek, which describes Holder’s misstep as a “self-inflicted gun wound.” Isikoff and Hosenball open their report:

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