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Dont have pistol permits or hunting licenses, when people buy ammunition. plus, when they buy more than a thousand rounds there ought to be a report of it to state and local law authorities. because that is a lot of ammunition. that is a lot of bullets like the ones that were used in newtown, and obviously underlying a lot of what is being done on this issue is the seismic shift. really, the very important change that is taking place in public opinion and in the political landscape. and i hope w...

Closing the gun show loophole. you mentioned the alleged shooter had a magazine that would hold 100 rounds of ammunition for this essentially machine gun. if it hadnt jammed, wed probably be looking at far more carnage. cop killer bullets. most nra members as well as most americans dont think that those ought to be freely available to buy like tic-tacs. i think americans have gotten a little numb to this. and after a week or two we sort of move on. all of us have a stake in making sure we deal w...

Deal with the simple common sense things like the cop killer bullets. the gun show loophole. start a little progression of progress and maybe, just maybe, other pieces will fall in place. its not acceptable to ignore it and walk away. and god forbid we accept this as the established order of things. this doesnt happen in any other civilized country. >> congressman blumenauer, thank you for speaking up on this and give you your props. you would win this today for speaking out. thanks for your tim...

Loaded with so-called cop killer bullets. >> thats the terms he used. >> and what kind of heartburn does that give you, knowing he could be coming in once again armed? >> well, were assuming that most criminals coming in here armed. we were prepared then to do what we had to do if the threat presented itself. if it does tonight, well do what we have to do. >> hes coming in right now. >> rusty comes back to do this demonstration. and were all a little tense because of this fear on the part of the...

So we did the best we could with what we had there that day and we had been there the -- 110 times since 1972. it got to be a routine, frankly. >> too routine. >> too routine, right. >> dr. giordano, the place where the bullet was lodged, it ricocheted off the door, the car door and it was a devastator bullet. one of those so-called cop killer bullets. we knowflicted on jim brady here yesterday and tim mccarthy, the other agent, the police officer. but what did you find when you tried to operate...

The car door and ricocheted, it was a devastator bullet. >> it went in sideways, didnt it? >> it went in sideways. if it hadnt been nicked, explode inside, and thats what happened to jim. >> it exploded in his head, as well. and that was one of the things we worked on, to get rid of the devastator bullets. also kol la locate qualifily kn as cop killer bullets. >> what needs to be done today, as far as youre concerned? >> the worst thing were facing now, the minute that gabby giffords was shot --...

The guy who was not even against plastic guns and cop killer bullets, that dick cheney now says, yeah, maybe we ought to look at banning the high-capacity magazines again. you know who else is saying that thing? the man that argued the case before the supreme court that established that the second amendment protects an individuals right to bear arms. the chair of the board of the libertarian catto institute, robert levy. he said not only does he not see any constitutional barrier to banning exte...

Detectors. the guy who was not even against plastic guns and cop killer bullets, that dick cheney now says, yeah, maybe we ought to look at banning the high-capacity magazines again. you know who else is saying that thing? the man that argued the case before the supreme court that established that the second amendment protects an individuals right to bear arms. the chair of the board of the libertarian catto institute, robert levy. he said not only does he not see any constitutional barrier to b...

But i think both of these cases, these measures came up under suspension of the rules. they came up where amendments werent allowed, debate was limited. >> even 12 years later, you see him physically squirming on that one. dick cheney physically trying to squirm away from the shame of that vote by saying, oh, it was about the process by which the ban was brought up. i was unhappy about the closed rule process. the ban plastic guns legislation was initially opposed by the nra, naturally. but even...

Then-congressman dick cheney of wyoming. 12 years after that vote, 12 years later, in the year 2000, dick cheney was still catching hell for that vote. that vote haunted him his entire political career. >> two votes that really did create a lot of interest, particularly amongst police organizations, were your votes on gun control. the first was a ban on cop-killer votes. the vote was 400 yes, 21 no. and a vote on plastic guns that terrorists use to hijack planes to get them undetectable through ...