Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and welcome to another episode of Meet the Press Reports.

Today, we're looking at gun culture in America, the growing diversity of its membership,

and the challenge it creates in passing effective gun safety legislation.

America's love affair with guns is so ingrained in the country's hunting and pioneer history

that the actual right to a firearm was written into the US Constitution.

After a decade of assassinations, gun legislation in 1968 imposed new federal restrictions

on who could own a firearm and the National Rifle Association sprang to life.

The NRA was originally formed after the Civil War to simply better educate soldiers on

gun safety and accurate shooting.

And it's really what the organization was about for good 50 or so years.

But by the 1970s and 80s, the NRA changed and it became a committed lobbyist for the uninhibited

right to a firearm.

And it's a political battle that continues to this day.

Now, in an era where mass shootings proliferate, the Supreme Court's expansion of gun rights

has now widened the debate over who has a right to what when it comes to bearing arms.

That expansion came after a pandemic crime wave and fears of political violence which drove

many Americans to gun store some for the very first time.

So it raises these questions now.

Who exactly is part of today's American gun culture?

And have lawmakers lost the ability to regulate it?

Well, my colleague Cal Perry has more.

I've seen all kinds of gun crimes and I can tell you, Brian Camp's new law is dangerous.

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