Hillary Clinton comes out for more gun control

As if there were much doubt, she is staking out her position clearly on gun control in advance of 2008.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has quietly stepped up her fight for tighter gun control by signing on to a new push to make public a national database of weapons used in crimes and illegal sales. . . .

So far, Clinton and fellow New York Dem Chuck Schumer are the sole Senate co-sponsors. . . .