Mitt Romney told a National Rifle Association audience in St. Louis Friday he would be a stronger defender of gun rights than President Obama. \"If we are going to safeguard our 2nd Amendment, it is time to elect a president who will defend the rights President Obama ignores or minimizes. I will,\" the Republican presidential candidate told the estimated 6,000 gun-rights supporters. The former Massachusetts governor also predicted Obama would try \"employing every imaginable ruse and ploy\" to restrict gun rights if re-elected in November, an agenda the Democratic president has not pushed in his first term. He also said Obama would \"remake\" the U.S. Supreme Court. \"In a second term, he would be unrestrained by the demands of re-election,\" Romney said. \"As he told the Russian president last month when he thought no one else was listening, after a re-election he\'ll have a lot more, quote, \'flexibility\' to do what he wants. I\'m not exactly sure what he meant by that, but looking at his first three years, I have a very good idea.\"