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Representatives who have been bought and paid for by the nra to actually pass the legislation that the nra is against. so we'll see what happens moving forward. what i think though is that these kids have completely injected a new -- a new day hopefully and hopefully they have injected steel into the spine of those who have yet been too cowardly to do anything at this point. >> jason, earlier today president trump's re-election campaign e-mailed this photo showing president trump with a shooting survivor. this is from the parkland massacre. the e-mail then went on to ask for a donation to his ...

Raising the age limit on gun purchases. but last week at the conservative convention cpac, the head of the nra restated the longstanding position that no changes should be made to the age at which a person can buy a firearm, even rick scottagr scottdisagrees with. >> i'm an nra member, i believe in second amendment. i believe in the first amendment and all of the amendments, i think most members of the nra agree with me, this is logical and i'm sure there will be some that disagree but i'm a dad. i'm a grand dad and governor. i want my state to be safe. i want every child to be in a safe envir...

Wrote a book about it. that book got him black listed by the nra for arguing that extreme politics in the focus on fund raising has corrupted the organization while distorting the opinions of many of the nra's members. richard, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> i first want to ask you about this divide between the influence and the nra and we've heard democrats in particular criticize the nra as being funded by gun manufacturers and then pouring that funding into political candidates while republicans argue it is a grass roots organization that is run by its m...

We need to close these loopholes. we need to make america safer. no one should be buying guns on the internet to escape a background check. terrorists shouldn't be in our country able to buy a gun without a background check. if they can -- if we're wrong about that their status, then in connecticut them get a hearing. and fairly rapidly. if it needs to be even more rapid, send it to the courts. but let's not sell guns to people who shouldn't have them. if we take that simple step, we'll make america a lot safer. and if other states would join connecticut, we would make connecticut safer. >> nr...

Count country able to buy a gun without a background check. if they can -- if we're wrong about that their status, then in connecticut them get a hearing. and fairly rapidly. if it needs to be even more rapid, send it to the courts. but let's not sell guns to people who shouldn't have them. if we take that simple step, we'll make america a lot safer. and if other states would join connecticut, we would make connecticut safer. >> nr a's initial reaction for this was kind of unusual for them. they kind of ridiculed it saying after all this time, this is all he's doing? this is nothing. but still...