New hope for assault weapon ban?

Efforts to ban assault weapons may have taken a turn for the better with the departure of the chief NRA opponent who successfully fought the ban for years but has now quietly resigned as the head of the progun lobby. Wayne LaPierre is charged with living high on the hog and allegedly using NRA funds to do it. With him out of the loop, what’s next on this gun battle?

While we wait for that story line to unfold in the nation’s capitol, back home in the state capitol there’s been an important development on the prohibition of assault weapons here.

“Personally, I think it would be the right thing to do.”