WASHINGTON — The tactics were more dramatic, a 25-hour siege by House Democrats. The words were more urgent, as Senators debated a compromise offered by a Republican. But by day’s end on Thursday, Congress was in the same place: a fierce stalemate over the nation’s gun laws, even with the additional pressure from the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla.

In the Senate, a bipartisan proposal drafted by Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, won a majority of 52 votes in support — including the backing of seven other Republicans and 44 Democrats. But the measure fell short of the 60 votes needed to overcome procedural obstacles and was set aside, with no chance of passage soon.

“Eventually we’ll find a compromise because the need is too real,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who supported the Collins measure. But Mr. Graham said that another terrorist attack might have to occur before Congress was spurred to action or, he said, lawmakers might need to get an earful from their constituents.

“The only way this movie ends is for people to calm down, go home, chill out and get beat up a little bit,” Mr. Graham said. “I am going to get beat up a little bit. I am going to get praised a little bit. And then we’ll come back and realize we have to do something about this.”

The measure proposed by Ms. Collins would block gun sales to terror suspects on the government’s no-fly list or on the so-called selectee list of individuals who are subjected to heightened screening before they are allowed to board a plane. It was far more narrow than proposals broadly favored by Democrats that focused on the much larger terror screening database, but it also put a far lighter burden on law enforcement officials seeking to block a gun sale than a measure put forward by Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the chamber’s No. 2 Republican.

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Source: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN, nytimes.com