WASHINGTON — The White House is looking far and wide for advice as it rushes to craft tough new gun laws, even meeting with the No. 1 gun-control opponent: the National Rifle Association.

Vice President Joe Biden, who is leading the effort to tighten gun restrictions after last month’s ghastly shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., will meet tomorrow with NRA officials.

NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said the group will send a representative “to hear what they have to say.”

President Obama gave Biden a February deadline for gun-control proposals.