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Brandishing his gun and threatening all. what im interested in now is why you have quit the nra? >> because all you ever hear about is fund-raising, for what purpose, im not really sure. they had the national reciprocity bill going through congress, i couldnt get a straight answer out of anybody why they wouldnt bring it to a senate vote in 2010 or in 2011 so you at least know who youre against. >> i mean, do you think the nra has any soechbs responsibility in terms of the guests i just had, the...

They had the national reciprocity bill going through congress, i couldnt get a straight answer out of anybody why they wouldnt bring it to a senate vote in 2010 or in 2011 so you at least know who youre against. >> i mean, do you think the nra has any sense of responsibility in terms of the guests i just had, they never advertise in terms of gun safety, responsibility at all. all the advertising is geared towards selling more firearms. do you think it would change their pr, if nothing else if th...

In terms of the guests i just had, they never advertise in terms of gun safety, responsibility at all. all the advertising is geared towards selling more firearms. do you think it would change their pr, if nothing else if they really started to take seriously advertising the and promoting safe gun use. >> they do do that in their marksmanship program, which youve got to enroll in one of their marksmanship courses to get that. >> right. >> youre going to get a lot more gun safety in a concealed w...

Marksmanship courses. they are up to 89% this year. >> probably the biggest key was focusing a lot more on the hands-on portions of the training. >> reporter: but, by far, the most important change we saw is the increase in trainers. double what they were last year. >> when you are trying to develop an army of 134,000, youve really got to start putting the troops through the training. we werent doing that. >> reporter: we found some of the adverse trends have indeed been reversed, but with train...

Mean very, very basic. >> some of them havent driven ever. >> about 95% to 98% have never driven. were looking at about 90%, 95% that are also illiterate. were having to teach them how to read the different gauges on the vehicle as well. any sort of safety warning. >> last november, literacy courses were voluntary. only 13,000 of the nearly 200,000 security forces enrolled. u.s. officials acknowledge that last year they thought the trending was so bad it was deemed a failure, but they believed t...