** FILE ** Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, speaks during a news conference in Washington on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting the week before. The NRA, the nation's largest gun-rights lobby, is calling for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings." (Associated Press)
** FILE ** National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre is interviewed by The Associated Press in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2004. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
National Rifle Association gun-safety mascot Eddie Eagle stands beside Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president and CEO, during a news conference in Washington on Friday, Feb. 28, 1997, to mark the third anniversary of the Brady Act. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre pauses as he makes a statement during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting, on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, in Washington. The National Rifle Association broke its silence Friday on last week's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 children and staff dead. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
On Monday, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV., a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association, said it was time to discuss gun policy and move toward action on gun regulation. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
“We’re in the fight of a lifetime, and every gun owner needs to join me in going all in,” says Wayne LaPierre, vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association in a new video salvo from the group aimed at the 2012 presidential campaign. (Associated Press)
**FILE** House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, speaks on April 13, 2012, at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis. (Associated Press)
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waves after speaking April 13, 2012, at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis. (Associated Press)