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Gun enthusiasts unite at NRA convention
April 14, 2012
(CBS News) ST. LOUIS - Avid hunter Rob West drove from Chillicothe, Ohio, to St. Louis this week to join some 70,000 fellow National Rifle Association members at the organization's annual convention, where seven acres of guns and gear were on display and where politics was never far from anyone's mind.

For the NRA, which opposes any restrictions on gun ownership and President Barack Obama's re-election, the Second Amendment right to bear arms is sacrosanct.

"We don't want politicians or Supreme Court justices who are going to try to take that liberty away from us," West said in an interview
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