NRA President: No Way an Assault Weapons Ban Will Pass...Unless Obama Uses 'All the Power of His Office

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National Rifle Association President David Keene said Sunday he doesn't think there's enough support to get a new assault weapons ban passed in Congress, unless President Barack Obama uses "all the power of his office" and changes the game.

Keene said on CNN's "State of the Union" that there's not enough legislative support for another ban "right now," but that might not necessarily hold.

"When a president takes all the power of his office and he's willing to expend political capital, you don't want to make predictions -- you don't want to, you don't want to bet your house on the outcome," Keene said. "I would say that the likelihood is that they're not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban through this Congress."

Keene said he doesn't think regulations on high-capacity ammunition clips are likely either, saying they would be difficult to regulate because they're so widespread.

"Even David Gregory could find one," he said, after the NBC host was investigated by Washington, D.C. police for holding a magazine up on television last month.

Vice President Joe Biden is set to deliver his recommendations to Obama on dealing with gun violence following the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn. Recommendations could include universal background checks and restrictions on the types of weapons and magazines people are allowed to own.

"The fact is that we live in a society where first of all, we have constitutional rights, and secondly, there are millions upon millions of Americans who value the rights that they have under the Second Amendment...and we think they're going to be heard," Keene said.

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