STATE OF THE STATEHOUSE: A powerful opponent takes aim at gun bill(IN)

Reporting from the Indiana Statehouse can sometimes be tedious business, with all the procedural maneuvering and political intrigue. It’s hard to navigate your way through all the rhetoric to determine what’s real. So many of the pieces of legislation come with a sales job — the spin that bill supporters put on a bill to slide it through. So it’s interesting to see what happens when the spin slides off course. Case in point: The “pre-emption” gun bill that sailed through the state Senate this past week, spun as a simple piece of legislation that would clean up what supporters...