Is being made here is for many part of the American Dream but for others its an increasingly frequent nightmare. Underneath the girl all those parts in the trigger of the old College Group theyll have to Work Together to give you the final product but really what were after is a finished. Weapon the. World. We are part of the n. R. A. The people that are fighting for your rights weve become part of those groups we like to be to a system in the fight for our rights here. Every sense of the memberships and then they go to the lobbyists and they try to get the pro gun bills through or try to stop the anti weapon bills you know its. Got a picture colors if you dont quite know what you want we can help you get it exactly what you want for where youre headed we just had one that looks like a snake smell. Scope. Of joy everybody is looking out for you in washington so the other is full speed doing that for. 911 what is your emergency then. You dont believe anybody and there are. A lot of a lot of your every hour your honor in the air and ignore you didnt know you were going to be here talking i dont know on the. Park on florida 28 but 19 year old returned to his former high school to unleash a deadly bomb with a legally purchased assault rifle. The park gun shooting left 17 people dead 14 of them students and a further 15 injured. As you can imagine it is a challenging difficult morning george is on the scene in florida where another community is in this belief as shocked by devastating violence. The most disturbing aspect about gun violence in america is that recent data shows that the frequency of Mass Shootings is only increasing over time. The students who survived the massacre are getting ready to go back to school for a much bigger fight taking on the n. R. A. Every year the United States sees about 350. 00 Mass Shootings roughly one per day massacres like the one in parkland have led to read new cones for stricter gun laws resisting such reforms is the National Rifle association which owes its very existence to the right of every american to bear arms in selfdefense just stop a bad guy with a gun it takes good. Guy with a guy the National Rifle association as one of the most powerful Political Forces in america it has a simple message we have a constitutional right to own firearms and nobody can take that away from us. And the n. R. A. Has connections at the very highest level of government. If you had a teacher with who was a dept of fire or. They could very well in the object very quickly. The n. R. A. Is real money lawyers and its mob being and has a huge network of dedicated supporters. To try 1000000 members in the n. R. A. Today theyve gained more and more of our small all the power of course is financial because they can ship board candidates trattoria elections theyre more future were the boys should be over again were the boys in the front its almost early in bergen to be at it but when you tell people who truly believe most of the were going to abolish the right wing good luck but. How is the an army able to wield such influence over lawmakers who are these people who know no bounds when it comes to defending these Constitutional Rights the survivors of the parchman shooting are now among the most vocal of the gun lobbys opponents patted down a monument taking place today and i came upon. But what can they do in the face of the mob a seeming omnipotence to students from heartland really coming out in force as a new Political Movement that we have never seen before marching on washington lobbying their elected officials theyre going up against history that hasnt been on their side of the problems and theyre going up against a dedicated group of people in the n. R. A. That they sought this focus on as tragic as it is the kids that are coming out of heartland and. Are there new to this political fight and the n. R. A. Has been fighting and gun rights advocates have been fighting this fight i saw. A battle that is being waged even in this sleepy looking small town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in western colorado its named appropriately enough his rifle. Its a place that looks like a relic of the wild west its home to a former saloon and now a restaurant called shooters grew up. Carrying a weapon here is not just permitted its openly encouraged the restaurant prides itself on having armed waitresses its founder serves customers with a 9 millimeter semiautomatic pistol the interior is adorned with john wayne vintage guns and even a crucifix framed by bullets for sure israel is an open carry restaurant by wait staff and myself we all carry firearms to work and they are loaded there are real we all practice we all train we are efficient with our firearms we pack this safety with them. And i think that its good for more people to have them because you feel safer this is the safest restaurant the world ever known is always ready in case anything happen and nothing ever has to go colorado is one of the 32. 00 states in the us where citizens have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun which might be a pistol or an automatic assault rifle. Its awesome to stop a bad guy with a gun you need a good guy with a gun because the criminals have free range they know you have nothing to stop them with they can go in and try to rob you at gun point and youre not going to shoot back because you are a law abiding citizen and you are obeying the government and not carrying your firearm and so they know they can go in and they can have whatever they want they can go. Wouldnt take if they could shoot whoever they want because theres no one stopping them here in rifle colorado theres people theyre going to stop. A pistol is as normal an accessory as a piece of clothing she also carries her gun at home in the presence of her 4 children. She and her husband have around 20 guns around the house out of sight for safety reasons my goodness shes proud to be a lifelong member of the n. R. A. Family. And i like that because theres a lot of transparency the n. R. A. Wants us to know what theyre doing they want us to know what theyre fighting for why gun control topic is on the table today and they want to let us know how theyre fighting. The n. R. A. Currently has some 5000000 members with almost 800 employees coordinating the lobbying work of over 10000 local branches the association was founded in 1871 by civil war veterans and nationally as a club for hunters and recreational shooters advocated training children in the use of guns from an early age. The National Rifle association commonly referred to as the. National organization of sportsmen in the United States. But in the 1960 s. Or your gun control legislation had been introduced following a string of high profile assassinations the n. R. A. Switched its mission to gun ownership and because and became one of the most powerful lobby groups in the us. Going to interfere with the state of his brother. Those who wrote the death of Martin Luther king this tragedy must bring americans together to legislate but. One of the most important chain. As was with all of the violence in our society and other societies in the late 1960 s. And with the assassinations of Martin Luther king and Robert Kennedy in 1968 president johnson began to push for more restrictions on the cause and that he americans even democrats who had supported johnson became very worried because they were afraid that if they didnt have their guns they would be unprotected when they saw in particular they were afraid of black power and what of. That. Was effective crime control. Remains in my judgment effective gun control. A warning shot to the countrys traditionalists. There was a small group of members of the n. R. A. That believed that gun rights were about to be curtailed dramatically and there were these conversations about gun rights and they decided to rise up within the n. R. A. And they effectively took over the entire organization and it went from a moderate. Less powerful group of sportsmen to a very staunch conservative organization 100 percent focused on the idea of ensuring that the right of an individual to own a gun would not be curtailed at all. Looking for new ammunition to further his campaign the n. R. A. He found an argument rooted in the United States constitution and amendment 1791. We believe in our current dream we believe in our bill of rights and we believe in our 2nd amendment to the United States constitution all of our 2nd amendment because we believe in. Freedom and the safety. And that is. It hello guarantees absolutely our freedom and our safety. The 2nd amendment says a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and theres a lot of debate about what the Founding Fathers meant doesnt mean people have the right to join together to ensure that the government isnt acting as a dictatorship or does that mean every Single Person has the right to have a gun on them at all times no matter where they are were all over the british youre growing. Boy going to what i think sometimes people miss is that when it was written the weapons the right to bear arms those arms were muskets they were weapons that maybe in a best Case Scenario you can get off 3 shots in a minute if you were an expert. So at that time Mass Shootings were impossible because there were not weapons that would make someone capable. In virginia where hundreds demonstrated outside the n. R. A. Headquarters afternoon protestors held Rifle Association helpings of blocking gun control. N. R. A. Is powerful enough to prevent any meaningful change thanks to its political ties and insistence on the constitutional right to bear arms among the antigun activists is time to him and one of a number of young people here who are survivors of the Parkland High School massacre where from the cowardice building because thats where they all stay behind closed doors so that they have balls they come and talk to us like people there. Howards i fight is the winning fight because too many die thats how much blood has shed and when we say enough is enough because it was are you guys were tired of so many children having to wake up and look at their wraps around things and realize that. Its not progun protesters brandishing an assortment of high powered firearms are present in this state this particular state it says im from a joke and carry this is always a money bill and not the criminals which i am no more people are going to face me the way things look so obvious more about. Me just not in my own business. In a country in which one in 3 adults owns at least one firearm the young gun control and the kids are widely seen as hopeless idealists an estimated 300000000 guns are owned by civilians half of the world total of privately owned firearms. Fallon from colorado is an n. R. A. Member and has a penchant for high caliber weapons i grew up in a household were if i was a good kid and i did all my chores and i did what my parents asked me to do i would actually get incentive by them giving me ammunition to shoot by 22 caliber rifle. Honestly the main thing i worry about is that someone is going to endanger myself or my family or my friends and do i have the ability to protect myself and those i care about around because unfortunately as you very well know where you are even a foreign france its a big bad world out there. Alan also trains father n. R. A. Members in his free time he expects actions not just words for his 1500. 00 lifelong membership or state senator john morse concedes in his recall race tonights historic vote. Leading to the 1st recall in state history. Attempting to make the recall of a state legislator punished as it goes for passing gun restriction legislation in his state. Democrat john morse spent 7 years as a state senator in colorado shortly after his appointment as president of the senate in 2013 he successfully proposed new legislation to restrict the sale of assault weapons the n. R. A. Retaliated by launching an initiative to force morse and other legislators out of office via a recall vote. In december of that same 2012 newtown happened and we had. Nearly 2 dozen People Killed there most of them 6 and 7 year old children so our sessions started in january and i knew that we needed to do something about gun violence in colorado since much of that violence that occurred here in colorado so by that time the n. R. A. Had. Support for its position and so one of the days when we heard these bills in the senate they surrounded the capitol with about 20 cars that just drove around the block from about 8 30 in the morning until about midnight that night just honking their horns trying to disrupt the hearings so the gun lobby did a great job of making it look like people were really opposed to these mass of these measures Senate President john motors is taking come to full and in the wrong direction forces pushing major changes swiftly list for the n. R. A. Invested over a 1000000. 00 in a Media Campaign to oust the. State Senate President to british paid for the National RifleAssociation Committee to restore coloradans winnings this is pretty much their standard stick you know i mean they just lie cheat and steal and for whatever reason too Many Americans buy into it in as a result too Many Americans and the dead just pure lies all the way through but you can see its Just Marketing and theres very little thats very specific in there you know morse is going to give us freedom how is that even possible after serving careers in the police force and then in politics morris now works as a certified accountant in Denver Colorado but he continues to observe how the n. R. A. Has been increasing its political clout in the state senate and house of representatives. You know my biggest disappointment in losing was that it sent a very clear message to elected officials around the country that if you do anything even if its just common sense gun safety we took out the president of the colorado states we can take us to and it has worked. There hasnt been much in the way of gun law changes in the entire country since what we did and we did barely anything and the fact that it actually costs human lives and were willing to pay that cost i mean it makes me ashamed very ashamed to be an american at this point in time. When john morse had to leave office in 2013 the n. R. A. Was headed by david keene an experienced strategist considered a powerful opponent then president barack obama he has since openly acknowledged his role in the removal of the Colorado Senate leader claiming that there was simply too much at stake back then. We when i went out there lobbied against it. As did every other organization and 2nd amendment that was very important in that in that whole battle that was going on. Because you could almost hear statehouse doors all over the country closing where they were saying oh no its not something that we should be looking at because the fact is that there are consequences to to to to passing legislation that really riles up your constituency political revenge and the demonstration that if you if you go against the 2nd amendment theres a price to be paid. The n. R. A. Tries to ensure its opponents pay that price and that politicians and Public Officials are aware of that threat. The conservative state of texas had never caused major problems for the n. R. A. People in the south have traditionally been firm supporters of the 2nd amendment. So the emergence of opposition to the gun lobby here came as something of a surprise a few weeks before the midterm elections in 2018 the city of austin hosted a debate on gun violence former soldier and n. R. A. Critic stephen claiming ran for election in the texas state senate. A you know i you can ignore me no no no i was. His grassroots activism made him a popular candidate and despite pressure from the lobbyists he was not afraid to confront the n. R. A. And make guns the key theme of his campaign. That history ari is really just a lobbying organization for the firearms industry they make billions and billions of dollars in this the United States a very unique and open market where nothing strays that makes the United States its one reason the United States is the foremost export of weapons both legally and illegally and i would stress the last i care about moral clarity and i care about making sure that we give a voice to the people but i havent had one of the n. R. A. Wants to come in here and challenge me ill take that challenge any day. Among those participating in the Forum Discussion were a former Police Officer and a number of victims of gun violence as well as Public Officials all of them determined to bring about change every year the United States registers up 260000 incidents involving firearms in 2019 they cost the lives of almost 15000 people and left 28000 others injured or in most states reaching the age of 18 in titles you to purchase a gun. And without having to prove that you can use one responsibly Many Americans say those laws are too lax but the n. R. A. Makes a huge effort to ensure that those laws are not compromised it invests millions of dollars into the Election Campaigns of politicians to ensure that the status quo is