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Knee-jerk reaction. i appreciate matt's candor. needing to reduce the amount of guns available to americans. >> that's not what i said. >> that's what i heard you say earlier. guns were too available. >> martha: you did say that. he said they were too available. please restate. >> i said there are a background check loopholes that allow people who are prohibited from owning guns from getting them. there are so many guns in circulation and no one is talking about banning guns. what we are talking about is prohibiting people who should not have their hands on guns, criminals, the mentally ill, d...

Act over these decades is also a point that you should make in terms of what we're seeing now and what we've been seeing from charleston and mother emanuel church to el paso. so part of my focus is not only dealing with gun sales and background check requirements but addressing the issue of domestic terrorism. so i'm going to tell you a couple of things. one, i'm prepared to require online background checks. so there is an organization that sells online arms list.com. and arms list is like the craigslist of gun dealers. they're not required to do background checks so i'm prepared to require th...

Or people with criminal records. people on the no fly list. they've been able to get guns because they can buy them from private sellers at gun shows, at armslist.com, in these facebook grounds. in a way what president obama is doing that i think is going to be effective overall is saying we need a more uniform standard because we don't want those people to be able to get more guns. >> part of the challenge of making these kinds of policies at least at the federal level has been this kind of polarization ideology. at a local level are people able to come together to make decisions based on wha...

Armslist.com was sued by the brady center. without the armslist website, smirnoff would have never gotten a gun. >> armslist.com is profiting off illegal gun sales. >> reporter: the courts did not agree. the lawsuit was dismissing. "arms list does not sell, auction, deliver or ship firearms." in the end, they are obeying the law and following the rules in their state.

Armslist.com remains on the internet today. >> drew, you've bought guns online for other cnn stories. how easy is it to do without getting any background check? >> you know, if you're trying the private person and the buyer needs to be legally. i can't be a felon or mentally unfit. there are not enough cops or atf agencies and it is easy to get away with. if both the buyer and seller break the law. gun rights groups argue that that's the same with just about everything else from guns to drugs to sold merchandise. the website only makes it easier to commit crimes if you're willing to commit the...