Perhaps his staffers were thinking less about gun control than warming up his image "Julia, I will tryvery hard" and trying to get people to think of him, after four years, and with his graying hair, as Papa Obama, instead of Irritating Older Brother Who Got 750 On His SATs And Thinks He's Einstein Obama.
The administration's working hard to try to get it reauthorized, but I think it's going to be very difficult for them to get it done before the presidential election.