The AW 'renewal' bill, having been 'strengthened' by Feinstein, McCarthy and Schumer to include almost everything except Kerry's 12-gauge and Ted Kennedy's car, goes to the Senate (or it may start in the House).
Enough people actually read it and see how sweeping and draconian and full of BS it is and get the word out to the shooting public. A loud howl of protest goes out.
The Pubbie congressmen shove it back in faces of said gun-grabbing hoplophobes saying 'not in this form, no way'.
Gun-grabbers take to the TV screens and microphones screaming about how Pubbies want to 'flood the streets with Uzis, machine guns, sniper rifles and silencers', how letting the bill expire endangers law enforcement, children and cute little bunnies, and how any politician that opposes the ban is lower than dirt.
As a final compromise measure, they resubmit the bill in the original form but which never expires and allows future unlimited addition of newly banned guns. Now this is the time I hope the Pubbies (and Dems who want to keep their jobs) toughen up and say 'no thanks, not in any form'.
Because if they cave and send it to Bush, that will put him in a bad place of his own making.