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The nra convention. we see them often every couple years when there is a big fight in congress, over, say, the assault weapons ban or cop killing bullets. they've lost a lot of those in the '90s under the bill clinton years. they've been at the state level on all these things, on conceal carry laws. bringing guns to national parks. bringing guns into bars. bringing guns into churches. whatever. and it is hard to fight them in 50 states. the gun control groups just don't have the same clout or the same amount of political dollars that they have. >> okay. tomorrow we're going to see mitt romney,...

Endeavor. they'll do it for 200 bucks. and so cases like this are very important, but there's got to be a lot more of -- this government has to be a lot more aggressive. >> give us the big picture. michael isikoff, you've been looking into this. what's the big picture on this? >> the big picture is this is a major way that the mexican drug cartels have been arming themselves for their bloody drug war in mexico, and that is using straw buyers in the united states to take advantage of weak u.s. gun laws to buy up large quantities of high-powered weapons and then smuggle them across the border. i...

Door to tighter gun restrictions, can barack obama avoid it. you mentioned before, i think you are going to do something on campaign pledges the president made. this was one of them. he supported during the campaign a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban which included a prohibition on the manufacturer of high capacity magazines such as the one used by jerrold loughner in the tucson shooting. once taking office, the president and the white house pretty much dropped this issue as politically unfeasible. in fact, they even took that pledge down from the white house website. and there was -- ...

Challenge is overcome, and the decision hailed by gun rights activists, and comes over the opposition of gun control groups, back in 2008, two years ago, there was a similar challenge in the district of columbia, washington, d.c., and it was struck down and judge sam alito, one of the five justices who ruled in the majority, saying, the right to keep and bear arms must be regarded as the substantive guarantee, not a prohibition. the ruling is handed down, something we expected today, in the u.s. supreme court. at issue, now public, 10 minutes percent the hour and we'll watch the fallout a bit ...

Deciding factor in siding with the court's conservative block justice samuel alito writing for them writing in a majority opinion: gun control groups sought a narrow ruling. >> basically they defined the second amendment as the right to have a gun in your home for self-defense. most other restrictions, background checks, restrictions on military style assault weapons, those are all still presumptively lawful. those are the things we fight for and try to defend. >> the high court also ruled in a separate opinion that the university of california hastings school of law has the right to deny fund...