the leadership of senator barbara bach in california, many democrats stepped up in support of this shows it has bipartisan support. the overwhelming bipartisan vote in favor in the house and senate creating the bill was part of what brought it into being. my question to you is, maybe you could give us a little history of maybe the meetings that you had and the fact that congress overwhelmingly supported this on the record on numerous occasions, yet for whatever reason, this administration wants to end the program. >> it was favored by almost everyone in congress. of course it was early after 9/11 and we all had our emotions. we all knew what had happened. it was relatively easy to convince even those. we did not make this a gun rights issue because that's not what it is. it's the national security issue. that's what we ran it as. they understood that. so we had great support from folks who you would think would actually otherwise be against it in both the house and the senate. there are a few holdouts, but i think our argument was convincing. so we did have, as brian said, solid bipartis