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Purchases has a penalty up to 10 years but it's a low federal priority. the president and attorney general sessions can change that immediately, if they want to. and i hope they'll want to. so that's one area where we need to stigmatize not firearms, but illegal firearms. we need to ratchet up the penalties of people who steal guns and who sell them. >> paul: but if you're a gang banger in chicago and we know most of the murders in much of chicago are done by gang members, are you really going to be he deterred from getting an illegal gun or getting your buddy who is not banned because he does...

Is publicized nationally, a lot of them are happening locally that you don't hear much about and again, they almost always involve mentally ill people who manage to legally acquire the weapon. we need to draw a line and it won't be easy to do, there's lots of obstacles in the way, constitutional, associat socialr obstacles but i think it has to be done. i think everyone agrees, president trump, the democratic party, the nra, the school protesters agree that the shooter in parkland should not have been allowed to have a gun and yet he had one. how do we work together to keep that from happening...

Then, yes, i think you're going to be deterred. that's what is not in the law is deterrents, but if you deter people from carrying illegal guns or acquiring illegal guns, then, yes, you'll see the supply dry up, the supply dries up and criminals have trouble getting guns which they don't have trouble getting right now. the second issue is of course mentally ill people acquiring. >> paul: i think everybody can agree we would like to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. the problem that i see, and we've been talking about this for many years, is state laws that make it -- many state l...

Priorities. the federal law against straw purchases has a penalty up to 10 years but it's a low federal priority. the president and attorney general sessions can change that immediately, if they want to. and i hope they'll want to. so that's one area where we need to stigmatize not firearms, but illegal firearms. we need to ratchet up the penalties of people who steal guns and who sell them. >> paul: but if you're a gang banger in chicago and we know most of the murders in much of chicago are done by gang members, are you really going to be he deterred from getting an illegal gun or getting yo...

From the fox news desk. >> much more ahead on the historic opening of the cuban embassy after half a century of very bad blood between the u.s. and the island nation. move marks a huge step in the restoring of diplomatic ties but some critics are pointing to the castro regime's troubling human rights record and the fact that officials say dozens of american fugitives are still hiding out in cuba so what to do about that? plus, cuban officials say they want guantanamo bay back. a live report from havana coming up on "shepard smith reporting." >> the white house again pushing for tighter control...