to that end he is weighing other options including raising the minimum age for buying a firearm. current law federal law people can t buy a handgun from a licensed dealer until age 25 but they can buy a rifle or shotgun including an assault-style weapon at the age of 18. if you buy from an unlicensed individual there is no minimum age for purchasing a rifle. a study cited by the law center found one quarter of violent gun oh fepders would have been prohibited from acquiring a weapon if the national standard were 21 years of age. the president also throwing his support behind a measure that would improve the reporting system for the instant criminal background check, the nix system. senators cornyn supporting the bill. it would give incentives to state and federal agencies to report information that they are supposed to be reporting to the nix system. it is not clear how that would
to hear the director say, nobody is above the law, and i asked him specifically the obstruction of justice statute, which exists, doesn t have an exemption for the president of the united states and he agreed. it good for him to remind the american people nobody is above the law. i had specific questions about hate crimes, about the nix system i hope he ll address. in general people were pleased with the information shared and most importantly, his commitment to the independence of the fbi. i think it was very clear to him we re relying on him to continue to maintain the independence of the fbi and not allow this administration or this president to interfere with a really critical investigation. and asked specifically whether he had been asked to do, take an oath of loyalty of some sort to the president. we heard that s what james comey was asked. the idea profess hi loyalty. chris wray s response, his loyalty is to the constitution and the country. great to hear and important to h
i d like to thank you all for coming. we ll entertain some questions. where was the third wound? good afternoon. i just want to commend the commander from dps for not mentioninged shooter s name. we don t want to glorify what s happened there. one is called don t name them, we don t talk about the shooter, we don t see his name out there in the press, so it doesn t encourage other people to do horrific acts like this, i can tell you the scene in there is horrific, not even a word to describe it. i certainly want to kmernd the first responders who went in there from fire, ems and the police department, the fbi and the dpi ranger teams in there now taking care of this. i think that s an important part we should always remember. i know there s a lot of questions about the fbi nix system and how did the person get the weapons. i can tell you for the four
investigation has to be motive. no, it absolutely is moss ti but they re all, the atf, texas rangers, sheriff, they re looking for motive, facts, eviden evidence, forensics. they re trying to see if he was a prohibited person, stephanie, as you ve been discussing with ali. was he prohibited by his military conviction? a bad conduct discharge does not prohibit you from having a gun but a conviction for domestic violence does and a felony conviction does. so those military records have to be looked at. did they disqualify him in it sounds like they do. did the air force osi, you know, and their criminal investigators and their courts ent they re into the nix system so when he went back to buy the gun, the back ground is flagged? he s a prohibited person if that s the case. but, you know, unfortunately now we can put our fingers on three cases where our internal
are indicted for felonies and those adjudicated mentally defective. tom, to be fair, that system would have been changed under the legislation proposed after the shooting at sandy hook elementary and newtown. that failed in congress and when you look at the state of affairs in washington today, they are not going to get comprehensive reform through, even the universal background checks, so what is it specifically you wanted the president to do? specifically that nix system needs to be strengthened. the first step towards hiring more fbi agents, more atf agents. that is part of what he proposed, hiring an additional 230 fbi examiners to work on background checks, funding for 200 more atf agents. you re not supportive of that? i am supportive of that, but what we need to see at the federal level and at the state level is prosecution of people who are caught with firearms