Some see gun debate helping GOP take Senate

Published March 26, 2013 4:00am ET



The debate over gun control, being supercharged by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s expensive new ad campaign pushing universal background checks, raises the possibility of turning relatively safe Democratic Senate seats into battlegrounds just as the fight over guns in 1994 helped give the GOP control of the Senate and House, conservative activists say.

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