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The
Hill
Biden, NRA to
meet on guns
By Justin Sink and Jennifer Martinez
01/08/13
Vice President Biden will meet with the National Rifle Association
(NRA) and a range of other groups this week as President Obama’s gun
violence task force shifts into high gear.
A flurry of meetings with Biden and other Cabinet members were
announced on Tuesday that will include gun-safety and sportsmen’s
groups as well as Hollywood and video-game interests.
The pace and scope of Biden’s work — the task force he is leading is
said to be considering significant changes to gun laws and is scheduled
to deliver recommendations to Obama by the end of the month — have left
groups scrambling over who can attend.
Movie studios, for example, were at press time still mulling whether to
send their local representatives in Washington or corporate executives
to meet with Biden.
The powerful NRA, which had warned that Obama, if reelected, would push
for tighter gun laws, said it had accepted an invitation to attend a
meeting.
“We are sending a rep to hear what they have to say,” NRA spokesman
Andrew Arulanandam said.
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