Obama wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants a big pow-wow so he can say he is doing something yet refuses to propose actual legislation because he knows that gun legislation seen as restricting existing gun rights would be a political disaster. Why should the NRA give Obama political top cover without something in return? If he would to say that gun bans or the AWB were off the table and the focus was on tightening the NICS process and ensuring states were complying with their legal responsibilities to provide accurate and timely information to the NICS then I suspect they would have no problem participating - the NRA played a big role in improving NICS after the Virginia Tech shooting.
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