To her right is Michael Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs.
Mr. Froman says common regulations and standard setting will be the hardest and most important part to find agreement on.
Froman talked about how the current background check system was broken, noting that an "instant check" in Colorado can actually take about 10 days.
"There's a lot of common ground, " Sandra Froman, a member of the NRA board of directors and a former president of the group, said at the town hall.
Froman, the NRA board member, said she'd like to see more sharing of resources to ensure a database of the mentally ill would prevent them from having access to guns.
There are also back-channel talks between Hamas and an Israeli rabbi, Menachem Froman, on a ceasefire between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, and on exchanging a captured Israeli soldier for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
"We are going into this with our eyes wide open but I think there is a lot of political will on both sides of the Atlantic, " said Michael Froman, White House deputy national-security adviser for international economic affairs.
Mike Froman alluded to TPP, and I think you all have seen from the readout that the President welcomed the important announcement that Prime Minister Noda made about his intent to work on eliminating the barriers to trade and deepening our economic relationship.
Then the President will be moving along to the leaders' meeting of the APEC Summit, where he'll have the opportunity to engage in a dialogue about our continued efforts to promote balanced and sustainable growth in the Asia Pacific region and around the world, building upon the strong efforts that have taken place at the G20 -- which Mike Froman can discuss in a bit.
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