NRA catching heat from members?

From the NYT:

The effort follows Mr. Obama’s call, in a column on Sunday in a Tucson newspaper, to put aside “stale policy debates” and begin “a new discussion” on ways to better enforce and strengthen existing laws to keep mentally unstable, violent and criminal people from getting guns.
But the National Rifle Association, for decades the most formidable force against proposals to limit gun sales or ownership, is refusing to join the discussion — possibly dooming it from the start, given the lobby’s clout with both parties in Congress. Administration officials had indicated they expected that the group would be represented at a meeting, perhaps on Friday.
“Why should I or the N.R.A. go sit down with a group of people that have spent a lifetime trying to destroy the Second Amendment in the United States?” said Wayne LaPierre, the longtime chief executive of the National Rifle Association.

A lobbying group not wanting to get involved in meetings which may affect their area of interest?  Or a group criticized for not being partisan enough by its members after it went ahead and endorsed some pro-gun Democrats in the 2010 elections?  I'm guessing it is number 2.  The NRA has said in the past that they thought existing gun laws should be better enforced, and that crazy people shouldn't be able to buy them.  Oh well, their members don't want them to work with Obama, no matter what the issue is.