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Prosecutor, the prime sponsor of hb-227, legislation in pennsylvania that would allow family members and law enforcement to ask a judge to temporarily take someone's gun away from them if they are believed to be a risk to themselves or others. thank you for being here. >> thanks so much for having me. fwl we know that mental health was likely a factor here. we know that mental health experts went to the gunman's home in california and cleared him under the 5150 law. do you think that your legislation, if it were to exist, for example, on a federal level, could have curbed this? could have stop...

Danger to themselves, a danger to others, or gravely disabled. if they don't meet that criteria, we can't take them -- >> martha: didn't his mother say she was terrified to live in a house with him and she he was constantly bashing himself and things into the walk? these are the reports we are hearing. >> it's a fine line. at that time when the officers were there and evaluated him, the crisis team went and evaluated him, as well, those are mental health professionals. they determined he did not meet the criteria under 5150. to give you an idea, we give dl with a lot of homeless population, wh...

Irrationally. they called out our crisis intervention team, our mental health specialist who met with him, talk to him, cleared him. didn't feel that he was qualified to be taken under 51-50. >> martha: what qualifies someone under 5150 to be taken? it seems like this is a scenario we see far too often. we saw it in parkland where the police were called 27 times to that house. at what point is it okay to say this person needs to be in some sort of mental hospital? >> in california, 5150 has very specific criteria. we as police officers go to calls like this all the time and only a psychiatrist...

And others, and someone at the scene that night said that he did not qualify to be held on the 5150 to be ache taen into the custody for that. and then we learned that he was purchasing this glock model 21 which is a .45 caliber handgun, and the purchase of the weapon was legal, but what is not legal is the extended clip that the police found on the gun. here in california, you can only have a magazine that will hold no more than ten rounds and the magazine attached to the weapon had more than that, and that is a separate investigation that the investigators trying to get an answer to the, as ...

Off and on, very minor but one incident has been of interest. in april law enforcement officers were at his house, he was described as being irate. there's a law here in california called 5150 where if law enforcement officers believe someone is suffering from some type of psychiatric episode, they can commit this person for up to 72 hours and longer. it didn't appear their contact with him at that point warranted confining him, but there might have been other areas of investigation. and obviously with the department of defense, we know he was with the marine corps and served time overseas, re...