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Loopholes. but the system didnt exist at all before the brady bill made it so in 1993. they said it couldnt be done. it was done. then, the year after that, another step. the assault weapons ban. >> democratic sponsors of the crime bill expect that president clinton will take a major role in making sure the final bill bans semi-automatic assault weapons. as nbcs pete williams tells us tonight, this is the major, unresolved issue and it is a big one. >> theyre called >> theyre called semi-automat...

Somebody give me an example of how one of these weapons was required to save their family from an intruder? just one example! i want to see one. nobodys coming for the guns, mike, youre right. and nobodys been a bigger defender of americans right to protect themselves than me. but who needs the type of semi-automatic assault weapon that is used hunting the taliban, as willie said, in afghanistan and pakistan to protect their familys home? >> i can give you a list of guns you can go out and purch...

Said, the brady campaign rates connecticut as having the fifth toughest gun laws in the united states of america. there are something like 35 semi-automatic and automatic weapons that you cannot buy under their assault weapons ban. unfortunately, the rifle that was used on friday is not one of them. theres an extensive waiting-day period. this young man reportedly was turned away at a dicks sporting goods because he didnt want to go through the background check. point being, they do have tough l...

Were three, but only one used to kill those 26 people? >> that appears to be the case. the authorities did say earlier today that the children were all shot with the so-called assault weapon, this bushmaster assault rifle. i should say theres some people in the gun community who dont like that term. thats a term used to describe these things. semi-automatic, so it fires one round every time you pull the trigger, but a larger round than the handguns he was carrying. >> all right. i know there is ...

Here you are. but a lot of people in the gun ownership side, the second amendment people who are zealots, say if a bunch of people have guns they can shoot this guy down when he walked in the door. i can imagine what will be heard in the days ahead. if some of those school officials had been armed they could have stopped him before he got to the kids. youll be hearing that argument. your thoughts on that. >> youll be hearing it, but i dont quite understand it. we are the most armed country in th...

Weapons -- >> and a bushmaster. >> yes. could you stop a person from getting access to those kinds of weapons if they broke mentally, they werent crazy, if you will, to use a common term, when they bought the guns or they got them from somebody else who got them legally, who was of sound mind? how do you stop the easy transfer of weaponry in this country? >> well, background check. >> but the laws dont control an easy transfer. you can sell it to a friend. you can lend it to a friend. you can st...

>> these were two glocks, semi-automatic weapons -- >> and a bush master. >> yes. can you stop access to getting if they broke mentally when they bought the guns? or they got them from someone else who got them of sound minds. the laws dont control an easy transfer. you can sell it to a friend, lend it to a friend or steal it from a friend. >> right. theres not one thing thats going to stop all shootings. and we cant always have the conversation about how can we have prevented the last shooting ...

Out. he was buzzed in through a new security system which apparently was just put in place a couple weeks ago but has been in place in much of fairfield county where you cannot get in the front door unless you are given clearance to get in the front door. megyn: stand by with me. i want to update our viewers. at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut just after 9:30 a.m. we believe this man, 24-year-old ryan lanza went into the school wearing combat gear, a full military-style vest...

>> you are obviously not defending people using guns for nefarious purposes when you have this discussion. but the discussion is silly. its not an assault weapon if its not fully automatic. fit many semi-automatic it fires a round that you will find in hunting rifles. megyn: the difference between that, you pull count trigger and the bullets just keep coming out. thats what our military does. semi-automatic you have to keep pulling the trigger. >> one pull of the trigger, one bullet fires. you n...

Thank you for your time. >> good to be here. >> shannon: i want to ask about something you wrote about. according to the confidential information that forces linked with the administration are suggesting that government might re-classify firearm and weapons changing their status under the national firearms take make it more difficult to get that. what can you tell us about that? >> well, according to the confidential information i have, semi-automatic firearms or certain semi-awe mattic firearms...