As of right now, a group of Democratic lawmakers are holding a sit-in on the House floor demanding votes for gun control measures come up. 

I admire the effort and symbolism, but I am not sure what they are trying to accomplish. For one, there's not going to be any passage of any sort of gun control legislation coming from this heavily controlled Republican House and for another, passage of even the most minute compromise bill is questionable to pass. Thirdly, even if you think you may be able to get a few congress members votes on the record going into the elections, with the districts so gerrymandered, you're not going to get that many congresspeople to change their vote to satisfy their constituents back home

Anyway, good bit of political theater for the Dems here and it's definitely a worthwhile issue. I just don't see it doing much to move the ball forward.

If you're into the whole Twitter thing, the hashtag is #NoBillNoBreak

House Democrats led by Civil Rights veteran Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, are in the midst of a sit-in on the chamber floor to try and force a vote on gun control.

"Now is the time for us to find a way to dramatize it, to make it real," Lewis said. "We have to occupy the floor of the House until there is action."

Then Lewis and roughly 40 House Democrats sat. They stood briefly to say the Pledge of Allegiance as a couple dozen visitors in the gallery looked on.

"No bill, no break" the House Democrats chanted loudly as they returned to sitting on the floor.

Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina led the gathering of Democrats in a prayer on the House floor and visitors in the gallery stood for the prayer.

The protest is not being televised because the House has not formally gaveled into session.

Four gun policy measures failed to pass the 60-vote threshold to move forward in the Senate on Monday in a dramatic showdown over gun policy. The votes came in the wake of the deadly shooting spree in a gay nightclub in Orlando — the nation's worst mass shooting in modern history — and a subsequent 15-hour filibuster by Senate Democrats who demanded action on gun control.

The four amendments — two filed by Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, and Chris Murphy of Connecticut, and two other, less restrictive measures filed by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and John Cornyn, R-Texas — addressed background checks of prospective gun buyers and the sale of guns and explosives to people on terrorist watch lists.

Murphy, who led last week's 15-hour filibuster by Senate Democrats who demanded action on gun control applauded the House's moves.