“Reid had already told us [last week] that they were definitely going to bring it back up again,” McCarthy said Friday. “We don’t know when that time will be, but he said before the end of the year.”

The tone marks a shift from earlier in the month, when the Senate shot down a series of proposals designed to combat gun violence, including legislation sponsored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) that would have expanded mandatory background checks prior to gun purchases…

McCarthy, a member of the House Democrats’ gun violence task force, said the group has been contacted by Senate gun control supporters, who are vowing to amend their bills, twist more arms and take another stab at a vote.

“We do know that a number of senators have been reaching out to our workforce group, and they were going ahead, they’re going to tweak it, they’re going to see, you know, if they can work with some of the other members who voted ‘no,'” McCarthy said.