In the letter, the group identifies its three top priorities for federal lawmakers that include requiring who buys a gun to pass a criminal background check; removing high capacity guns and ammunition magazines from the streets; and making gun trafficking a federal crime.
"People have talked about high-capacity gun ammunition clips, for example, and that is something certainly that he would be interested in looking at".
In a subsequent blogpost on CNN.com, Morgan wrote: "The senseless killing has to stop," and called for a ban on high-powered assault rifles and high-capacity gun magazines.
In rapid succession, a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks for gun buyers, a ban on assault weapons and a ban on high-capacity gun magazines all failed to get the 60 votes needed under an agreement between both parties.
One seeks to reinstate a ban on high-capacity gun magazines; another would close the so-called gun show loophole, which permits some people who buy guns at gun shows to avoid background checks otherwise required by federal law; the last would close gaps in the law that prevent the government from stopping suspected terrorists from buying firearms or explosives.
WASHINGTON — The Metropolitan Police Department said on Wednesday that it had opened an investigation into whether NBC and David Gregory, the host of "Meet the Press," broke the law when Mr. Gregory displayed a high-capacity gun magazine during an interview on Sunday with the vice president of the National Rifle Association.
In rapid succession, a bipartisan compromise in the U.S. Senate to expand background checks for gun buyers, a ban on assault weapons and a ban on high-capacity gun magazines all failed to get the 60 votes needed under an agreement between both parties.
A small group of Democratic lawmakers in Washington renewed calls on Tuesday to ban high-capacity gun magazines.
Efforts to limit high-capacity gun ammunition clips would be another area of interest, Carney said.
Democrats are also planning to bring up amendments to ban assault weapons and high-capacity gun magazines.
