WASHINGTON, D.C.: The top US firearms lobby emerged from talks with Vice President Joe Biden on curbing violence on Thursday (Friday in Manila), saying he cared more about stamping out gun rights than protecting school children.

Biden met a representative of the National Rifle Association (NRA) along with other gun rights groups as part of a policy review that he pledged will deliver its recommendations to President Ba-rack Obama by Tuesday.

After also meeting hunting associations, victim support groups and mental health and law enforcement professionals, Biden insisted he had made no final decisions on policy responses to the Newtown school massacre and other mass shootings.

But he hinted that the White House was looking at universal background checks for gun purchasers and to limit the availability of high-capacity ammunition clips, either through new laws or executive orders by Obama.

In a sign of the tough environment facing gun control advocates, the powerful NRA issued a blunt statement after the talks. it has called for armed guards at all US schools and has said it will oppose efforts by Obama’s Democratic allies to reintroduce a ban on rapid-firing assault weapons used in several recent shootings.

Obama gave Biden until late January to come up with policy ideas.