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Posted: 4/22/2013 4:58:29 PM EST
In this photo taken April 19, 2013, Lisa Inglis, 43, of Quakertown, Pa., sits in a booth at John's Plain & Fancy Diner in Quakertown, Pa. Inglis, who calls herself a liberal Republican, said the Sandy Hook massacre left her deeply ambivalent about guns and gun control, but believes the Senate should have been able to compromise on legislation. In the emotional politics of gun control, the suburbs seem to be emerging as a new sphere of influence. The Senate's defeat last week of new firearms restrictions underscored the nation's shifting demographics and a pronounced divide on the gun issue between Americans in rural areas and in the suburbs. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
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Posted: 4/19/2013 4:43:44 AM EST
In this photo taken on Friday, April 12, 2013, Gaspar Perricone poses with one of his favorite guns at his home in Denver. Perricone co-founded The Bull Moose Sportsmen’s Alliance, a group that took the unusual step earlier this month of releasing a poll that showed wide support among hunters for universal background checks. Most public polls have shown about 90 percent of voters support such a measure. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Posted: 4/19/2013 4:43:44 AM EST
In this photo taken on Friday, April 12, 2013, Gaspar Perricone, 29, cleans one of his guns at his home in Denver. “We are pro-gun, there’s no two ways about that,” Perricone said in an interview, stressing that his group opposes bans on assault weapons or high-capacity magazines. “But we’re also mothers and fathers....We don’t want to see another Newtown.” Perricone co-founded The Bull Moose Sportsmen’s Alliance, a group that took the unusual step earlier this month of releasing a poll that showed wide support among hunters for universal background checks. Most public polls have shown about 90 percent of voters support such a measure. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Posted: 4/19/2013 4:33:31 AM EST
In this photo taken on Friday, April 12, 2013, Gaspar Perricone cleans one of his guns at his home in Denver. Perricone co-founded The Bull Moose Sportsmen’s Alliance, a group that took the unusual step earlier this month of releasing a poll that showed wide support among hunters for universal background checks. Most public polls have shown about 90 percent of voters support such a measure. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 8:21:30 AM EST
This is an undated handout photo issued by London's Metropolitan Police of top row left to right, Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed and bottom row left to right Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain. The four men have been jailed in Britain for discussing plans to carry out a terrorist attack using homemade guns and bombs. they pleaded guilty in March to engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 3:04:41 AM EST
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords is helped as she arrives for a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in Washington, about measures to reduce gun violence and the bill to expand background checks on guns that was defeated in the Senate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 3:04:41 AM EST
Family members of those lost in the Newtown, Conn. school shooting, Mark and Jackie Barden, with their children Natalie and James, who lost Daniel; Nicole Hockley, mother of Dylan, upper left, and and Jeremy Richman, father of Avielle in the back, stand together as President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in Washington. Obama spoke about measures to reduce gun violence and a bill to expand background checks on guns that was defeated in the Senate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 7:23:46 PM EST
Family members of those lost in the Newtown school shooting, Mark and Jackie Barden, with their children Natalie and James, who lost Daniel, Nicole Hockley, mother of Dylan, upper left, and and Jeremy Richman, father of Avielle in the back, stand together as President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in Washington, about measures to reduce gun violence and a bill to expand background checks on guns that was defeated in the Senate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 7:23:46 PM EST
President Barack Obama frowns as he speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, about a bill to expand background checks on guns that was defeated in the Senate. He is joined by former Rep. Gabby Giffords, second from left, Vice President Joe Biden, and Newtown family members from left, Neil Heslin, father of Jesse Lewis; and Mark Barden. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 6:38:35 PM EST
FILE - This Jan. 2013 file photo shows Tucson police officers cataloging a gun gun buyback program outside a police station in Tucson, Ariz. Arizona is now a step away from essentially doing away with the programs with lawmakers approving a bill that would ban cities from destroying the weapons and require them to sell the guns _ part of a broader movement among gun-rights lawmakers to limit gun buybacks. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff)
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Posted: 4/15/2013 3:03:35 AM EST
FILE - In this Tuesday, April 9, 2013 file photo, Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in New York. Key measures of New York's tough new gun law are set to kick in, with owners of guns now reclassified as assault weapons required to register the firearms and new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines. As the new provision takes effect Monday, April 15, 2013, New York's affiliate of the National Rifle Association said it plans to head to court to seek an immediate halt to the magazine limit. Cuomo calls those and other provisions in the state's new gun law common sense while dismissing criticisms he says come from “extreme fringe conservatives” who claim the government has no right to regulate guns. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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Posted: 4/15/2013 3:03:35 AM EST
FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 file photo, handguns appear on display at the table of David Petronis of Mechanicville, N.Y., standing with rifle, who owns a gun store, during the heavily attended annual New York State Arms Collectors Association Albany Gun Show at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center, in Albany, N.Y. Key measures of New York's tough new gun law are set to kick in, with owners of guns now reclassified as assault weapons required to register the firearms and new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines. As the new provision takes effect Monday, April 15, 2013, New York's affiliate of the National Rifle Association said it plans to head to court to seek an immediate halt to the magazine limit. (AP Photo/Philip Kamrass, File)
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Posted: 4/15/2013 3:03:35 AM EST
FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 file photo, gun enthusiasts gather during the annual New York State Arms Collectors Association Albany Gun Show at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center, in Albany, N.Y. Key measures of New York's tough new gun law are set to kick in, with owners of guns now reclassified as assault weapons required to register the firearms and new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines. As the new provision takes effect Monday, April 15, 2013, New York's affiliate of the National Rifle Association said it plans to head to court to seek an immediate halt to the magazine limit. (AP Photo/Philip Kamrass, File)
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Posted: 4/14/2013 12:23:31 PM EST
In this Saturday, April 6, 2013 photo, Eric Martin poses for a photo with his fiancee, Rachel Cieslewicz, at their home in St. George, Utah. In late March 2013, Martin chased down an intruder to their home and held him at gunpoint with the 9-mm Smith & Wesson handgun that he keeps in his bedside night stand, until the police arrived. In two decades of debate over guns in the U.S., intense disagreement has long clouded seemingly straight-forward questions of how, exactly, Americans use firearms to defend themselves and how often. But listening to Martin's account of the incident shows how the uncertainty of the abstract plays out with very real consequences. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Posted: 4/14/2013 12:23:31 PM EST
In this Saturday, April 6, 2013 photo, Eric Martin poses for a photo with his fiancee, Rachel Cieslewicz, at their home in St. George, Utah. In late March 2013, Martin chased down an intruder to their home and held him at gunpoint with the 9-mm Smith & Wesson handgun that he keeps in his bedside night stand, until the police arrived. In two decades of debate over guns in the U.S., intense disagreement has long clouded seemingly straight-forward questions of how, exactly, Americans use firearms to defend themselves and how often. But listening to Martin's account of the incident shows how the uncertainty of the abstract plays out with very real consequences. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Posted: 4/14/2013 12:23:31 PM EST
In this Saturday, April 6, 2013 photo, Eric Martin poses for a photo with his fiancee, Rachel Cieslewicz, at their home in St. George, Utah. In late March 2013, Martin chased down an intruder to their home and held him at gunpoint with the 9-mm Smith & Wesson handgun that he keeps in his bedside night stand, until the police arrived. In two decades of debate over guns in the U.S., intense disagreement has long clouded seemingly straight-forward questions of how, exactly, Americans use firearms to defend themselves and how often. But listening to Martin's account of the incident shows how the uncertainty of the abstract plays out with very real consequences. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Posted: 4/12/2013 6:58:27 PM EST
Members of the American Samoan delegation sing for the opening of the Spring Republican National Committee meeting in Los Angeles Friday, April 12, 2013. With compromises on immigration, guns and potentially taxes and spending in the works, Republicans gathering at a national party meeting are deeply divided over whether leaders in Washington should meet Obama half way on these matters and more. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Posted: 4/12/2013 6:58:27 PM EST
Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio National Committeewoman addresses the Spring Republican National Committee Meeting in Los Angeles Friday, April 12, 2013. With compromises on immigration, guns and potentially taxes and spending in the works, Republicans gathering at a national party meeting are deeply divided over whether leaders in Washington should meet Obama half way on these matters and more. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Posted: 4/12/2013 6:58:27 PM EST
Ohio Committeeman Bob Bennett speaks during the 2013 RNC spring gathering in Los Angeles Friday, April 12, 2013. With compromises on immigration, guns and potentially taxes and spending in the works, Republicans gathering at a national party meeting are deeply divided over whether leaders in Washington should meet President Obama half way on these matters and more. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Posted: 4/12/2013 6:58:27 PM EST
Steve Munisteri, Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, left, and Virginia RNC Committeeman Morton Blackwell address changes to the GOP at the Spring Republican National Committee Meeting in Los Angeles Friday, April 12, 2013. With compromises on immigration, guns and potentially taxes and spending in the works, Republicans gathering at a national party meeting are deeply divided over whether leaders in Washington should meet President Obama half way on these matters and more. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
