WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Barack Obama instructed by a reflection on violence related to guns after the shooting in Newtown last month, will this week the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful organization of the pro-gun lobby, said Tuesday the House blanche.
Joe Biden and his staff will also be in the week of associations of victims, hunting federations, representatives of the entertainment industry and that of video games, said the spokesman of the Presidency, Jay Carney.< / p>
Barack Obama, who expects this month's recommendations Biden talk about the issue of guns in his speech on the State of the Union on 24 janvier.
After the massacre of 20 children and six adults December 14 in a primary school in Connecticut, the U.S. president has promised "significant actions" to avoid such tragédies.
He has lent its support to any bill in Congress to ban assault weapons .
While supporting the Second Amendment of the Constitution on the right of every citizen to be armed, Barack Obama said in his opinion the acquisition of assault weapons should not be as easy as it is currently Etats-Unis.
But according to the Washington Post last Sunday, the White House is working on a plan to control weapons much more ambitious than a simple return to the assault weapons ban was in force from 1994 to 2004.
According to the newspaper, the working group led by Biden seriously considering to impose checks on the identity of global buyers and arms control movements and arms purchases through a file national.
The plan would also strengthen controls on the mental balance of buyers and a tightening of sanctions against those who would bear arms in front of schools or who to entrust mineurs.
Roberta Ramptonand Steve Holland; Pascal Liétout and Guy Kerivel for service français
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