Romney woes NRA

Mitt Romney told a National Rifle Association audience in St. Louis Friday he would be a stronger defender of gun rights than President Obama. "If we are going to safeguard our 2nd Amendment, it is time to elect a president who will defend the rights President Obama ignores or minimizes. I will," the Republican presidential candidate told the estimated 6,000 gun-rights supporters. The former Massachusetts governor also predicted Obama would try "employing every imaginable ruse and ploy" to restrict gun rights if re-elected in November, an agenda the Democratic president has not pushed in his first term. He also said Obama would "remake" the U.S. Supreme Court. "In a second term, he would be unrestrained by the demands of re-election," Romney said. "As he told the Russian president last month when he thought no one else was listening, after a re-election he'll have a lot more, quote, 'flexibility' to do what he wants. I'm not exactly sure what he meant by that, but looking at his first three years, I have a very good idea."