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The state prohibits the sale of magazines that hold more than 15 bullets as well as requiring background checks for all private gun sales. larimer county sheriff, justin smith joins me by telephone. welcome, >> good morning, martha. martha: you look at the polls on this, and a lot of people are in favor of the kind of legislation that passed in the state level in colorado. they think there is no reason for these higher capacity magazines and why not try to have the most stringent background checks that you can? >> well i think some of those polls have been very deceiving in all honesty the way...

I was running from room-to-room trying to locate others in the class. >> i got a text from jimmy. i have isaiah, but i don't have ania. i kept texting 10, 15 seconds, ana. question mark? then exclamation point. we had isaiah. i didn't understand why we didn't have ana. >> you can have a million bullets but if you have to put them in one at a time, the ability to do any kind of real damage is significantly reduced. >> we looked to the search warrants as well and know that he left the smaller capacity magazines at home, that was a choice the shooter made. he knew that the larger capacity magazin...

Tomorrow. the bill requires universal background checks for every gun sale. it expands the state's assault weapons ban to cover more than 100 additional firearms. and it outlaws new magazines with more than 10 rounds of ammunition. if you already have higher capacity magazines, you can keep them but you have to register with the state. the white house says president obama will visit connecticut next week to call for congress to pass a national gun control bill. tonight, he was keeping up the pressure in colorado, another state that just approved new gun restrictions. ed henry is live in denver...

Where i just purchased a gun a couple months ago, a hunting rifle, and i had to go through a background check, why isn't that good for other sales? >> my problem with background checks is you're never going to get criminals to go through universal background checks. i mean, all the law-abiding people create an enormous federal bureaucracy. we aren't going to prosecute any of the bad guys if they do catch one, and none of it makes any sense in the real world. >> i don't get that. >> senator lindsey graham and others at the hearing made the case for higher capacity magazines. >> would i be a rea...

The related agencies. pete, you have been reporting on the guns that he had with him and what we know about the fire power there. >> right. well, he apparently purchased these guns -- we don't know when. they're trying to trace them right now. but he had four weapons when he went to the theater. two glock hand guns, one of them was a .40 caliber, i don't know what the caliber on the other one was, a remington bolt action model 870 shotgun, single barrel shotgun, one of the most popular and commonly possessed shotguns in america, then something like a smith and wesson ar-15 type rifle. as you c...