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Whether two guns a year or 200,000 guns, whether you're doing it at a gun show or on the dark web, you need a license to do so and your buyers need background checks. there will be harsh penalties if you don't do that but there is a big question out there, how is the federal government going to make you do that and who is going to find you if you don't? also, mental health information and domestic violence. they are urging them to put that information into the background system and enforcement is a question, i mean, this is encouragement we're talking about. the white house wants to beef up th...

Of new gun control measures. jim acosta has details. it's a clearly very personal issue for the president. >> reporter: wolf, he was raw and recognized he is running out of time. but taking aim at what he has called the inability to pass gun control law, president obama is going around congress to tighten up the nation's background system for buying firearms. it was perhaps the most emotional speech president obama has ever given in office. first, embracing the crowd of mass shooting victims and their families on hand, and then openly crying as he made the case for new executive actions on gun...

Cutouts. we are also taking steps to make the background check system more efficient. under the guidance of jim comey and the fbi, our deputy director tom brandon at the atf, we are going the be hiring more folks to process the applications faster, and bring an outdated background system into the 21st century. [ applause ] these steps will actually lead to a smoother process for the law abiding owners and stronger system to protect the public from dangerous people a. that is number one. number two, we will do everything that we can to

In the business of selling guns, whether two guns a year or 200,000 guns, whether you're doing it at a gun show or on the dark web, you need a license to do so and your buyers need background checks. there will be harsh penalties if you don't do that but there is a big question out there, how is the federal government going to make you do that and who is going to find you if you don't? also, mental health information and domestic violence. they are urging them to put that information into the background system and enforcement is a question, i mean, this is encouragement we're talking about. th...

>> the department of justice ig report said up to half the names on the list are incorrect. >> list of false positives has included the late liberal senator ted kennedy. democratic senator john lewis, members of the armed forces, u.s. marshals and at least one toddler. the false positives are not the biggest problem with the terror watch list. >> if the people on the watch list are truly dangerous, why isn't the obama administration and the obama justice department indicting them? >> the supreme court has held that the right to keep and bear arms under the constitution is a fundamental liberty...