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Known as a.t.f. what's happening on the ground. my first question to you, we've seen the data when it comes to surging violence, you can pull up crime surges in the city, new york city crime up 38%, chicago up 35%, philadelphia 20%. from your perspective on the ground, john, can you give us a better sense of what the problem is as pertains to gun violence right now? >> well, you can't break it down to simply one factor. there are many variables that come into play here. let's start with the basic facts, 500 million plus guns in open circulation within this economy right now. another 18 to 20 m...

So the bail reform and discovery law have done nothing, but hinder us in law enforcement to stop the violence. bryan: john, my last question. red flag laws, from the a.t.f., would a red flag law potentially help and how would that work for you guys? >> i'm not going to speculate what could happen. i believe that red flag laws are a bandaid. we as a community must come together. all americans have to address this problem together to-- if we're going to find any sort of resolution to it. being able to address people with mental health issues, people that are struggling in their own lives, as a c...

Is that firearms investigations can come up during the course of a myriad of different investigative agency priorities. we as a country have established the joint terrorism task force back in 1980 to address the global threat of terrorism and domestic terrorism in this country and the fbi has done a phenomenal job together to utilize a sound, uniform strategy under one chain of command to address terrorism as a whole and that's basically a whole of government approach. one of the big things i've been trying to create here in new york city is a similar concept with the joint firearms task force...

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