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Appetite among lawmakers and little enthusiasm to do so. were also going to see a senate gop folks after their policy luncheon what they come up with, whether or not theres going to be a big push. here are some of the proposals already on the table. the bump stock issue. that is something that came up after the las vegas massacre. folks that would actually go through, something would be done to ban, if you will, that little device that turns a semi-automatic into an automatic weapon. the preside...

Thats why were offering a bipartisan piece of legislation. not just bump stocks. a bump stock that increases the rate of fire to make a semi-automatic weapon act for all intents and purposes like an automatic weapon. i do hope that congress moves on that. i think we should put it in the statute. >> next month youre speaking at a politics and eggs breakfast in new hampshire. this was just announced, for those who dont know. that breakfast is a traditional testing ground for politicians considerin...

>> well, i mean, i think clearly somebody is 19 or 21 who has diagnosed mental illness that presents a danger will not be stopped from buying a gun but what we have the difference in mass shootings is somebody who shows up who has a weapon thats turn intoed an automatic weapon changes that place, kills more people and so i think we do have to reinstate the assault weapons ban, i think that we do have to make sure that people who are prohibited really have prohibited and cant slip through and get...

>> well, i mean, i think clearly somebody is 19 or 21 who has diagnosed mental illness that presents a danger will not be stopped from buying a gun but what we have the difference in mass shootings is somebody who shows up who has a weapon thats turn intoed an automatic weapon changes that place, kills more people and so i think we do have to reinstate the assault weapons ban, i think that we do have to make sure that people who are prohibited really have prohibited and cant slip through and get...

Somebody is 19 or 21 who has diagnosed mental illness that presents a danger will not be stopped from buying a gun but what we have the difference in mass shootings is somebody who shows up who has a weapon thats turn intoed an automatic weapon changes that place, kills more people and so i think we do have to reinstate the assault weapons ban, i think that we do have to make sure that people who are prohibited really have prohibited and cant slip through and get a weapon anyway and so these are...

>> hi, fredricka. >> okay so president trump has said, you know, he supports the ban on bump stocks but the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives is not so sure that a ban on accessories is possible. richard, what kind of legal issues could gun manufacturers actually raise with such a ban? >> well, fred, you would think the president would surround himself with the most intelligent legal minds and politicians in the country before he gets up and panders and makes an ignorant sta...

I dont want to die because of a lack of shooting back one day. thats why i carry one. but i can go out there and look at this honestly as a person whos done threat assessment. and i can say if someones coming at me with an ar-15, my max range with my .9 millimeter may be 20, 25 meters, maybe 30 meters on a good day, im not going to have the opportunity to protect myself. its a net. its a common sense approach. were not concealing and carrying ar 15s. >> >> you know the supreme court has said, ye...

Protect myself. >> you know the supreme court has said, yes, americans have the right to bear arms but not the right to bear any and all arms. >> i think thats an important point. we dont have unlimited access to the automatic weapons i carried on the battlefield. i cant go out there and get a saw automatic weapon or hand grenades or a rocket. we respect that the second amendment is a god given right. that right to defend ourselves is unimpeachable, but it doesnt mean every single arm. >> heat m...

Agreement across the board that this issue, everybody is open to having a conversation about that and possibility regulating or outlawing something that turns a semiautomatic weapon, which is legal, into something not legal, which is an automatic weapon. we just need to work from factual information. the truth is that teenagers who commit gun crimes, the vast majority of them have stolen their weapons or gotten through an adult that aided them. so well see. but we thank you both for having a ver...

Agreement across the board that this issue, everybody is open to having a conversation about that and possibility regulating or outlawing something that turns a semiautomatic weapon, which is legal, into something not legal, which is an automatic weapon. we just need to work from factual information. the truth is that teenagers who commit gun crimes, the vast majority of them have stolen their weapons or gotten through an adult that aided them. so well see. but we thank you both for having a ver...