Congress doesn’t have time before recess to get much done—except, apparently, to push through an National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed bill that would undermine the ability of the federal government to crack down on gun dealers who violate the law. News reports this week tell how Congress won’t have time to finish the majority of the spending bills that fund federal agencies or to complete immigration reform. But today the House voted 277 to 131 to approve H.R. 5092, a bill that the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence says would allow gun stores, “even those with hundreds of violations of federal law” to continue to continue doing business without having their licenses revoked.  So far this election cycle, the NRA Political Action Committee, one of the nation's largest, has collected $8.7 million and spent $5.7 million.  The NRA argues that the legislation is needed because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) pursues gun dealers for trivial violations. But a recent report from the Brady Campaign that examines 21 federal court decisions over the past five years demonstrates that instead the agency has focused on cases involving dealers who sell guns to straw buyers, to juveniles, and who lack records for sale of hundreds of thousands of firearms, among other issues.    (a version of this is posted both at Muckraking Mom and Colorado Confidential)