{"id":23252,"date":"2026-05-26T03:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-backed-some-gun-control-measures-massie-opposed-them-all-it-may-not-have-helped-either-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:20:49","slug":"cornyn-backed-some-gun-control-measures-massie-opposed-them-all-it-may-not-have-helped-either-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-backed-some-gun-control-measures-massie-opposed-them-all-it-may-not-have-helped-either-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn backed some gun control measures. Massie opposed them all. It may not have helped either."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giffords, a gun safety advocacy group, is sending a memo to all Congressional Republicans today arguing the gun lobby isn&rsquo;t so powerful after all&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/05\/20\/congress\/giffords-massie-cornyn-gun-lobby-00929361\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giffords, a gun safety advocacy group, is sending a memo to all Congressional Republicans today arguing the gun lobby isn&rsquo;t so powerful after all&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}