State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman appeared on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show yesterday afternoon to tout his efforts to have gun show operators ensure background checks are performed.

In the interview, Schneiderman said he will travel to Washington later this month to offer up suggestions to federal officials on how to better enforce gun laws.

As he’s said before, the AG told Sharpton that gun show operators have come forward themselves to offer up better enforcement guidelines following the Connecticut school shooting that killed 20 children and six adults.

“People we haven’t even busted have come forward voluntary to say I want to do that at my gun shows, too. The people of good conscious, who are sportsmen and women who are gun owners they understand this,” Schneiderman said. “They know that background checks keep guns away from criminals and people with mental health problems. What happened in Newtown has galvanized them as well.”

The Democrat also praised New York’s gun control law passed last month in Albany that updates and expands the state’s assualt weapons ban.

Advocates for gun control on the state level have noted that some form of federal tightening of gun laws is needed in order to stem the flow of illegal weapons into the state.

Schneiderman said he expects some form of gun control to pass in Washington, but he said a national “campaign” is needed to ste up the effort.

“The time for change is even coming from Washington,” he said. “You see the president, you see the commitment there, I think they’re going to get something done.”

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