N.R.A. Will Send Representative to Meet with Biden on Guns The National Rifle Association will send a representative to a meeting on guns later this week hosted by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., an official with the gun rights organization said Tuesday. James J. Baker, the director of federal relations for the N.R.A.'s lobbying arm, will attend the meeting on Thursday, according to Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the organization. The meeting will also include representatives from other gun rights and hunting organizations. "The N.R.A. got an invite late Friday," Mr. Arulanandam said. We are sending a representative to hear what they have to say. The gun rights group has made no secret of its opposition to the kinds of gun control efforts -- like a ban on assault weapons and limits on high-capacity ammunition -- that President Obama has said he supports. But the organization -- which has long resisted measures to limit gun ownership -- is under new pressure following the mass shootings of children and teachers in Newtown, Conn., last month. Mr. Obama directed Mr. Biden to conduct a rapid review of actions that the administration might take, including the possibility of new legislation and other action that the president could take unilaterally. Mr. Biden has said his group will release its report in the middle of January, perhaps as early as next week. On Wednesday, Mr. Biden is meeting with gun control organizations, including the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and state gun control groups from Illinois, Connecticut, Arizona, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. A top aide to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, who has campaigned for stricter gun laws, is scheduled to be at the meeting. The meeting with gun rights groups and hunting organizations will take place the following day, on Thursday, according to groups that have been invited. "The N.R.A. has certainly been one of the groups, one of the many groups invited," Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Tuesday. I would leave it to those groups themselves to decide whether to say whether -- to make any comment on their attendance in those meetings.