Listen to the broadcast version of this story. Legislation that would eliminate Indiana’s licenses to carry a handgun in public has been shot down by Senate Republicans. Still, legislative leaders wouldn’t rule out reviving the bill, HB 1369, before lawmakers head home. The Senate did not give the handgun license elimination bill a hearing before Thursday’s deadline to do so. More than half the Senate Republican caucus signed on to co-sponsor the bill. But Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray (R-Martinsville) said it was a caucus decision not to advance the measure. Bray said members of his caucus balked at a provision in the bill that required the state to create a new database of people who are barred from carrying a handgun in public. Many law enforcement leaders – including State Police Superintendent Doug Carter – opposed the bill because they said the current licensing system already serves as that database.