if he had a court record that could have blocked his buying that weapon in november. there is the national instant background program we have, that should weed out people from being able to purchase weapons. that doesn t always happen. time magazines reports of 121,000 records of mentally ill people in arizona alone that the state has so far only submitted the names of about 4% of those people, or just 4400 to the database, and it is not clear if jared lee loughner s name was ever submitted or flagged at all. jon: eric shawn. thanks. jenna: lots of breaking developments to this story. we are awaiting the court appearance of jared lee loughner in a court today in arizona. just ahead we ll talk to the intern who may have saved the congresswoman s life, straight ahead.