Billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg made it abundantly clear that he plans to continue his fight to pass tougher gun laws at both the federal and state levels in a recent Yahoo interview with Katie Couric. In fact, the former New York City mayor did not even bristle at the thought of going dollar for dollar in the political arena with the nation’s preeminent gun rights organization, the National Rifle Association.
“You think you can really outspend the NRA and the gun manufacturers?” Couric asked. “Oh sure,” Bloomberg responded. “I’m not the only funder of this. All of these groups raise money. ”
Bloomberg is the co-founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, arguably the most aggressive pro-gun control organization in the country, especially now that MAIG has partnered with the grassroots-savvy Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
Specifically, Bloomberg wants to see a federal law that expands background checks to cover private firearm transfers made over the Internet and at gun shows. Though he didn’t give a timeframe, in the interview, Bloomberg said he was “100 percent convinced that he would get a bill through Congress, through the Senate and the House.”
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