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Similar semi automatic. how do they get guns of any kind between the ages of 13 and 15? its not legal in tennessee. >> its not legal. again, part of a group of mayors called mayors against illegal guns. this is such a multifaceted problem. illegal guns are one of the most difficult areas that we have to deal with. clearly by definition they were possessed illegally. guns -- car thefts -- guns from cars have been up dramatically in tennessee and chattanooga over the past few years. weve been urgi...

>> commissioner ramsay, well continue to press and look for answers and press on our elected officials to take action. thank you for your time, and offering your expertise. and since uvalde, 17 mass shootings in america have taken place. 17. were talking about individual incidents with four or more people shot. today a bipartisan group of senators will meet virtually to discuss gun safety legislation and cnns tom foreman has a look at the last time lawmakers actually did enact a major piece of...

Yes, these are a lot of people who die in this period of time. but in a country of 300 million, this is a very small number. so there could be many explanations as to why this happened. but control, they say look at it. maybe the ban is really the reason why. there have been other states that have enacted their own dwun laws, and the bluer they are, the more intense those laws have been to try to deal with this after it expired. with these back in the game, you have to look at the fact that this...

Its just a very common type of rifle. and then theres probably some sort of contagion effect thats in play as well. other shooters have used this gun. some of these attackers glorify the shooters and replicate what they did so they pick this firearm. >> part of it is the semi automatic nature. i want to show our viewers. put the .22 caliber, and then an ar-15 next to it. you can modify almost any gun to make it shoot more rounds a minute or more rounds per second. in terms of an ar-15 compared t...

This is what democrats have been wanting to do since the get-go. they were targeting the most semi-automatic rifles doorway going after all semi-automatic handguns, rifles, everything that is ultimate goal totally. not universal background checks reverse due process and get rid it basically entirely corner stone whether republican goes along with it. this is the same guy, jesse, told everybody to go on the balcony and fire off a shotgun basically be excited for. remember he said shoot the crimin...

Mental illness or instability in would-be gun owners. >> my thoughts are very much with the families of all those who have tragically lost their lives, absolutely appalling incident. >> reporter: large-scale shootings have triggered limits on gun ownership and access in numerous countries and gun control advocates point to them as proof that mass shootings can be dramatically reduced. >> a gunman killed two dozen people and injured several others. >> reporter: despite a strong gun culture and st...

>> i mean, yes, certainly i think theres a level of distrust on each side of this issue that is deeply rooted and, frankly, extends well beyond the gun issue, obviously, into our general politics. but of course im not talking about you needing an expert level of education to comment on firearms. i think what we have issue in our industry is that we dont very rarely have even a base level, even an understanding of the difference between semi-automatic and automatic. and these things matter signif...

Requirements in response to mass shootings there. a slaughter in nova scotia in 2020 spurred opponents to say those controls dont work in gun advocates noted a downward trend in gun deaths over the past 20 years. >> we know that other countries in response to one mass shooting have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. >> reporter: after 51 people were killed in new zealand in 2019 by an australian gunman who targeted mosques, the government in six days went after militar...

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Resistance, the government banned semiautomatic weapons. gun violence plummeted and theres only been one mass shooting since. the government has all kind of responses to a mass shooting there. proponents said those laws dont work. but again, they note an overall downward trend in gun deaths over the past 20 years. >> we know that other countries in response to one mass shooting have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. >> reporter: after 51 people were killed in new zeal...