Palin tells US gun owners: Don't give up

Former US vice presidential contender Sarah Palin has told Americans not to give up their guns.

"The Washington establishment sneers at you, and you don't give up," she said.

"The lamestream media just plain doesn't get you, and you don't give up, you don't retreat."

She was speaking at a National Rifle Association conference in Texas.

It is the group's first big event since Congress rejected gun control laws, proposed after the Newtown School massacre last December.