New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg damaged the recent push for gun control through his aggressive advocacy of the legislation, according to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

“It is not going to get through now,” Leahy said on Newsmakers when asked if Democrats would make another push on the issue. “Unfortunately, you have some on the left like the mayor of New York City who actually didnt help a bit with his ads — he actually turned off some people that we might have gotten for supporters — and you have some on the far right who say the Second Amendment allows us to have anything, as though you can take a machine gun to go deer hunting. There’s got to be a balance in between.”