

Denice Tarrant holds her two-week-old grandson Maxwell Reed as she pays for dinner at All Around Pizza in Virginia Beach, Va., Feb. 18, 2013, where anyone who carries a gun or brings a concealed handgun permit is offered at 15 percent discount. Amanda Lucier/The Virginian-Pilot/AP
A boy sits on a child's toy and sulks because his sister got to carry the rifle that he wanted to carry during a field training exercise with members of the North Florida Survival Group. The group, which trains children and adults to handle weapons and survive in the wild, gathered in Old Town, Fla., Dec. 8, 2012. Brian Blanco/Reuters
Shane Gazda, who has a concealed weapons permit, displays his gun collection as his daughter, Savannah, looks on at the kitchen table of their home in Clayton, N.C., on Feb. 2, 2012. Gazda plans for both his son and daughter to take classes and eventually become permitted gun owners. Ann Hermes/Staff
Local public school teachers use rubber training guns as they practice drills to disarm an attacker during a free, teachers-only firearms training class at the Veritas Training Academy in Sarasota, Fla., Saturday. Brian Blanco/Reuters
Karen Wiggins, head of the firearms division for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., stands in the department's firearms reference collection on Sept. 28, 2007. Most of the guns, used for forensic research, were seized under a 31-year-old law in the district that bars handgun ownership for nearly everyone except law enforcement officials. The law has since been struck down in court. Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Ron and Barbara Ingram pose with Santa for a photograph at the third annual 'Santa and Machine Guns' event at the Scottsdale Gun Club Dec. 2, 2012, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ross D. Franklin/AP
Alaskan Tali Hadfield, a student at Floyd Dryden Middle School, gets instruction on using a pellet rifle during a Hunter Education course on Oct. 23, 2012. The course was taught at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game Juneau Hunter Education Shooting Complex in Juneau, Alaska. Michael Penn/Juneau Empire/AP
In Etowah, Tenn., McMinn County Sheriff Joe Guy holds up a rifle on April 7, 2012, during an auction of guns confiscated by the McMinn County Sheriff's Office. Angela Lewis/Chattanooga Times Free Press/AP
President Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Md., Aug. 4, 2012. In a recent interview with The New Republic magazine, Obama said yes when asked if he has ever fired a gun. He said, 'we do skeet shooting all the time,' except for his daughters, at Camp David. The White House/Pete Souza/AP
Illinois gun owners and gun rights supporters fill out NRA applications while participating in a Gun Owners Lobby Day convention before marching to the state Capitol March 7, 2012, in Springfield, Ill. Seth Perlman/AP
Harrison Atwood (l.) and Tony Miele (r.) test Trijicon rifle scopes at the Safari Club International Convention in Reno, Nev., on Jan. 29, 2011. Max Whittaker/Reuters
Seattle Police Officer R.S. Curtis looks over a M-16 that was turned in during a gun buyback event in Seattle on Jan. 26, 2013. The event lasted from 9 a.m. until shortly after noon, after the event ran out of $80,000 worth of gift cards. Nick Adams/Reuters
Craig Van Cura practices shooting his semi-automatic handgun at targets at the Ferry Brook Range, on Jan. 26, 2013, in Keene, N.H. He carries his gun with him for self-defense but has never had to use it for that purpose. Mostly he shoots at targets for fun. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Guns were off limits at the Grass Roots North Carolina Second Amendment Freedom Rally in Raleigh, N.C., Feb. 5, 2013, but Walter Emery sported a tiny toy gun at the event. Corey Lowenstein/The News & Observer/AP