that our nation needs stricter gun control laws and needs it now. the california senator feinstein is drafting new legislation to bring back the nation-wide ban on assault weapons that expired eight years ago. senator feinstein called president obama% name yesterday in the hopes of starting a discussion on guns and, today, the white house said that president obama does support her efforts. in response so far from many pro gun groups including the national rifle association. but fox has learned that can change. james is live in washington, dc. james? sources close to the issue say the national rifle association that has been silent since newtown from respect of the mourning will push back against the vocal gun control lobby. industry sources say the n.r.a. will broaden the discussion to include hollywood and the gaming industry and the group will challenge the effort underway to restore the ban on assault weapons that existed from 1994
upper peninsula, for example. you go to grand rapids, and you have a lo of conservative people in that area, many of whom come from a dutch background. they have very strong feelings about soecial issues. so michigan is a mixed bag. mike murphy was reminding me. the strongest state chapter is in the state of michigan. mm-hmm. in gun groups. nra. very strong. this is a place for his social issues. that s absolutely true. it s a state of many, many parts. i do think you have to try to project forward what s going to happen here in michigan in the fall as a result of the campaign. by the way, you and i have been talking about this. i think it s a comment on the absence of nimbleness on the part of romney, that he couldn t just seize the santorum comments on college education.
purchasers are too weak to defer criminals. reporter: gun control advocates also want a new law requiring gun stores to report anyone who buys more than one rifle. as currently required for anyone who buys more than one handgun. because they claim that the multiple sales are responsible for up to 90 percent of the guns in mexico. gun rights groups say that is absolutely false, that fewer than 28 percent of the mexican guns are traced to u.s. gun stores. they say most actually come from military stocks in mexico and central america. they want to pin the blame once again on american gun owners, gun laws and gun rights this this country and the gun dealers, and it s just not going to float. reporter: gun groups point to a report from the u.s. state department titled the blame game which says that this idea of an iron river of guns from u.s. gun stores to mexico is in their words a myth. on the other hand, some
weapons going into mexico. runs the atf. bill: the guy kenneth melson looks like the head of the atf is done. acting head. bill: not going to be acting anymore. is he going to be out of there. even during the bush administration, into the obama administration the nra and gun groups have objected to everybody they have wanted to nominate going back to 2006 to head the aff. nobody is good enough for the nra. they have been lobbing all these senators and they can t get anybody. they don t have a real head to the atf. bill: you are saying that melson didn t know what he was doing. i am saying maybe they couldn t get proper personnel. bill: melson is going to take the fall. holder has got to explain this situation because he is the top guy here. we need to know what he know and what he didn t know. bill: you agree with that? we should know what did he know and when did he know it just like obama can holder know everything that s going on in every situation? this isn
operation of 2,000 automatic weapons going into mexico. runs the atf. bill: the guy kenneth melson looks like the head of the atf is done. acting head. bill: not going to be acting anymore. is he going to be out of there. even during the bush administration, into the obama administration the nra and gun groups have objected to everybody they have wanted to nominate going back to 2006 to head the aff. nobody is good enough for the nra. they have been lobbing all these senators and they can t get anybody. they don t have a real head to the atf. bill: you are saying that melson didn t know what he was doing. i am saying maybe they couldn t get proper personnel. bill: melson is going to take the fall. holder has got to explain this situation because he is the top guy here. we need to know what he know and what he didn t know. bill: you agree with that? we should know what did he know and when did he know it just like obama can holder know everything that s going on in