In another sign the National Rifle Association is confident it doesn’t need to change tactics after the Newtown, Conn. school shooting and the push for gun control it sparked, the grou’s president took to CNN Wednesday and said once again that it’s just fine people on the federal terror watch list are able to legally buy firearms.The organization is opposed to President Obama’s new push for universal background checks because, NRA President David Keene told CNN Wednesday, reform would make it difficult for one friend to sell another friend a gun in a private transaction. He also dismissed the idea that the loopholes built into the current background check system are all that big a deal.
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