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Enacted into law 20 years ago by pushing them as amendments on the senate floor. joining me now, senior senator from california, dianne feinstein. thanks for joining us. >> youre welcome, lawrence. >> i explained to people if they want to see gun legislation and ammunition control legislation passed, theyre going to have to stand with dianne, tell their members of congress how they feel about it. lets listen to what president obama says about that. >> we have to tell congress its time to restore...

A gun. lets make that happen. we have to tell congress its time to crack down on gun trafficking so that folks will think twice before buying a gun as part of a scheme to arm someone who wont pass a background check. lets get that done. [ applause ] we have to tell congress its time to restore the ban on military-style assault weapons and a ten-round limit for magazines to make it harder for a gunman to fire 154 bullets into his victims in less than five minutes. lets put that to a vote.

Giant missing pieces in what we now know about the investigation into sandy hook is motivation and background of this murderer. what do we now know about adam lanza that can help us understand what led him to this horrific act? >> well, we cant ask adam any questions, as you know. we can piece together his history. and thats being done. we know that he worked on this for a long period of time. that it was intentional that he killed his mother first, that he took highest powered weapons to the sc...

>> what do you say to that? >> i say theres a lot of evidence thing koss have changed. this young man emptied 154 shells. 154 bullets, in five minutes. if he had to change magazines more often no doubt it would have created breaks, and people could have made a difference and stopped maybe some of the killing. the families feel clear about that, and i certainly feel clear about it. if you can change them so quickly, why do you need more than ten jn i would turn that argument arounds in connecticu...

Firing 154 bullets in less than five minutes. the use of high capacity magazines that allow somebody to fire that many bull net so short a time has been central to the sandy hook parents argument for why we ought to change the law. >> we have learned that in the time it took him to reload in one of the classrooms, 11 children were able to escape. we asked ourselves everyday, every minute, if those magazines had held ten round, forcing the shooter to reload at least six more times, would our chil...

The shooter who opened fire in tucson when he tried to kill congressman gabby giffords. he did so with a high capacity magazine. he had a bullet in the chamber and he had 30 bullets in the magazine. he shot 31 rounds. he was stopped only when he tried to reload. the size of his magazine determined how many bullets he could fire before he was stopped. he had 30 plus the one in chamber and that was it for him. the shooter who opened fire in sandy hook elementary school in december did so with high...

Employees, including teachers is a big part of the plan. but buried inside the report is this bit of hypocrisy. its recommended that schools perform a pre-employment background check and periodic rechecks on all employees, including a criminal check. the same thing that the nra fought so strenuously. also this week, the nra opposed a u.n. treaty that restricts gun sales to groups that commit war crimes. why? because any restriction could eventually restrict the gun owner passing 154 nations, 154...

Eventually restrict the u.s. ungun owner. passed 154, thats nations, 15 kun twri countries to 3. found itself in the esteemed company of those three countries. iran, north korea, and syria. thats our new crowd. anyway, ron reagan is a radio talk show host and msnbc contributor. willie brown is former mayor of san francisco. mayor brown, having run a city, you know this issue of safety. public safety. the strange nra thinking is he cant let a teacher or armed guard or retiree from the police forc...

Countries. if those weapons are likely to be used for genocide, for example, then you shouldnt sell them. this week, the u.n. passed the arms trade treaty by an overwhelming margin, 154 countries voted for it. only three countries voted against it. the united states delegation voted for it. now the treaty goes to president obama who is reportedly expected to sign it. but then, of course, it goes to the united states senate, where it needs 67 votes in order to be ratified in order to count. the p...

The national rifle association, of course, opposes that treaty. the vote in the general assembly was 154 in favor, 23 abstaining, and only 3 opposed. the three countries in complete agreement with the national rifle association on this treaty are iran, north korea and syria. so all of you patriots out there paying your dues to the nra are doing so now in complete support of iran, north korea and syrias opinion on that treaty with the united nations. on wednesday in maryland, the house of represe...