Bernie Sanders puts gun policy in people's hands

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is pledging to take on the NRA if he is elected president of the US.

Sanders made the vow at a rally Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, the site of the largest mass shooting in modern American history.

Former vice president Joe Biden has knocked Sanders for backing a bill to make the gun industry immune from lawsuits in 2005. Sanders has since taken a tougher stance against gun rights.

On Tuesday, he vowed to pass universal background checks and an assault weapons ban. Sanders says “the American people and not the NRA” will determine gun policy.

On October 1, 2017, a gunman perched in the window of a hotel on the Las Vegas Strip killed 58 people down below at an open-air music festival. More than 850 people were injured.-AP