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And the cause to the awareness is necessary. >> john -- steven, im sorry, you were a survivor as well as you work with the mayors against illegal guns? >> right. and when i hear caroline talk about more work to be done, senator john curran, lets go there, first. he claimed that store purchasing isnt a big deal. watch what he had to say. >> my concern is that this built is a solution in search of a problem. straw purchasing for purpose of directing guns to people who cannot legally attain them is...

Action on the reform of our existing gun laws. for instance, we may see a universal background check be pushed through in a bipartisan way. we may also see a -- the federalization of, you know, straw purchasing. thats whats really driving crime in inner city communities where you have a legal gun owner buying 5, 10, 15, or 20 guns and selling them illegally on the street without a background check. so those guns go on to hurt people in those communities and then, you know, thus driving up murder...

Them on all gun sales. what is the difference? we also last year, our legislature passed a straw purchasing to make the penalties stronger. i think now that we have that tool box set, i think the people of pennsylvania are ready to say, okay, we dont mind reporting our lost and stolen gun. that is really just a tool for prosecutors to make sure that straw purchasers, who make up 40% of all gun crimes in pennsylvania, are held accountable for their actions. its gun trafficking. no one agrees with...

Peet there. you co-sponsored the bill on illegal trafficking. what are you trying to accomplish especially from the perspective of someone who represents urban communities? >> well, its very important with regard to urban communities because what were finding is that folks are finding youll get a criminal who then goes to a person who has no record and gets that person to purchase guns and then they will send those guns to urban areas. and so you may have a situation like we recently had in geor...

More guns than the rest of the world. there are no simple solutions, but gun laws can help. both the violence policy center have found gun laws between gun laws and rates of death. there are many policies that wont destroy the rights of responsible gun owners. closing the gun show loophole is common sense. some call gun shows tupperware parties for thugs. everyone buying a begun for america should submit to a break ground check and registration, including online sales. criminalize straw purchasi...

Fortune magazine article that tlss was no effort to allow the gunss to walks. did they always enforce the law where they had a law to enforce? >> i totally disagree. we had a number of whistle-blowers that came to us and provided documentation that said the guns were running. we were given a letter in february, that ten months çlat, the department of justice had to pull back because it was a lie. let me ask you, are you for toughr enforcement of gun laws would you like to see a more aggressive...

>> i totally disagree. >> with "fortune" magazine? >> yeah. i totally disagree. we had a number of whistle blowers who came to us and provided us this documentation that led to the fact that the guns were running. remember, we were given a letter on february 4, 2011, that roughlyç ten months later department justices had to pull back because it was a lie. >> let me ask you. are you for tougher enforcement of gun laws? would you like to see a more aggressive atf that stopped anybody who looked ...

To kind of get a sense of who it is thats buying guns from them, and thats what gun dealers do. the ones that do it honestly, its those questions and if you sense something suspicious, you need to report that to atf investigators. that man you just saw, his gun sale was put on hold temporarily, a few days later he was checked out, everything was fine, and he was able to purchase a gun. >> whats the issue with georgia? went to the gun dealer in georgia. are laws here particularly lax? >> the reas...

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