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Knee-jerk reaction. i appreciate matts candor. needing to reduce the amount of guns available to americans. >> thats not what i said. >> thats what i heard you say earlier. guns were too available. >> martha: you did say that. he said they were too available. please restate. >> i said there are a background check loopholes that allow people who are prohibited from owning guns from getting them. there are so many guns in circulation and no one is talking about banning guns. what we are talking ab...

Act over these decades is also a point that you should make in terms of what were seeing now and what weve been seeing from charleston and mother emanuel church to el paso. so part of my focus is not only dealing with gun sales and background check requirements but addressing the issue of domestic terrorism. so im going to tell you a couple of things. one, im prepared to require online background checks. so there is an organization that sells online arms list.com. and arms list is like the craig...

Or people with criminal records. people on the no fly list. theyve been able to get guns because they can buy them from private sellers at gun shows, at armslist.com, in these facebook grounds. in a way what president obama is doing that i think is going to be effective overall is saying we need a more uniform standard because we dont want those people to be able to get more guns. >> part of the challenge of making these kinds of policies at least at the federal level has been this kind of polar...

Armslist.com was sued by the brady center. without the armslist website, smirnoff would have never gotten a gun. >> armslist.com is profiting off illegal gun sales. >> reporter: the courts did not agree. the lawsuit was dismissing. "arms list does not sell, auction, deliver or ship firearms." in the end, they are obeying the law and following the rules in their state.

Armslist.com remains on the internet today. >> drew, youve bought guns online for other cnn stories. how easy is it to do without getting any background check? >> you know, if youre trying the private person and the buyer needs to be legally. i cant be a felon or mentally unfit. there are not enough cops or atf agencies and it is easy to get away with. if both the buyer and seller break the law. gun rights groups argue that thats the same with just about everything else from guns to drugs to sol...

Easier legally also makes things easier for illegal sales as well. armslist.com has faced lawsuits arising from illegal gun sales facilitated by its website that were used in violent and deadly acts. case in point, two people who lived in a chicago suburb, one in canada. they met on an online gaming site and things got rocky. dmitry went to armslist.com and got a gun, a completely legal sale. dmitry, a canadian, found a willing seller of a handgun in washington, illegal because it crossed border...

Advertise to private gun buyers. armslist.com calls itself the largest free gun classified on the web and as you enter the site, you can see that it has plenty of guns for sale. it will first ask you to go to your state because only guns purchased within the same state by two private parties are legal and can be conducted without any background check. but they have to be private sales by two people in the same state and residing in the same state and the gun weve selected is right here. a gun th...

In the first place. >> but as you just hear, he passed the background check. >> theres no one policy thats going to stop all gun crimes, but what i think makes the most sense, what law enforcement tells us is requiring that same background check against all sales. he didnt have to go to that gun shop, he could have gone to a gun show, he could have gone to arms list.com and purchased more high-powered weaponry without a background check at all and it would have been legal. >> what do you think w...

Lets say you are a felon. lets just say, for example, youve killed people. youve killed people, went to prison, served your time and now youre out. federal law in this country says you may not legally buy a gun. without getting into the nitty-gritty, our federal laws are supposed to keep felons like you or people with a history of severe mental illness from purchasing guns. those laws dont always work, but thats what theyre supposed to do. a felon tries to buy a gun anyway, from a federally lice...

Lets say you are a felon. lets just say, for example, youve killed people. youve killed people, went to prison, served your time and now youre out. federal law in this country says you may not legally buy a gun. without getting into the nitty-gritty, our federal laws are supposed to keep felons like you or people with a history of severe mental illness from purchasing guns. those laws dont always work, but thats what theyre supposed to do. a felon tries to buy a gun anyway, from a federally lice...