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Or certified insane person, no background check required. here's your fun. -- gun. it wasn't until years after the brady bill took effect in may 1999 after the columbine massacre that congress felt even compelled to try to fix that. it was frank lautenberg who first introduced legislation to say even sales at gun shows should require a background check. it passed the senate in a nail-biter tie breaking vote by al gore is how it passed. but in that year, 1999, it went on to die in the house. since then, that loophole has remained. it's survived lots of attempts to close it. right after the sand...

Felon terrorist domestic abuser or certified insane person, no background check required. here's your fun. it wasn't until years after the brady bill took effect in may 1999 after the columbine massacre that congress felt even compelled to try to fix that. it was frank lautenberg who first introduced legislation to say even sales at gun shows should require a background check. the lautenberg bill passed the senate in a nail-biter, tie breaking vote by al gore is how it passed. but in that year, 1999, it went on to die in the house. since then, that loophole has remained. it's survived lots of ...

Years ago, took the lives of 161 people. secretary napolitano will fly from joplin to moore, oklahoma where she's planning on meeting with local officials there and inspecting the damage. you know, in 1999, in may, 1999 when the huge tornado with the fastest speeds ever recorded on earth, when it hit moore, oklahoma, that up until that point had been the most expensive tornado in american history. that was the first tornado, moore oklahoma, may 3rd, 1999, to cause more than a billion dollars damage on the ground. that was eclipsed when joplin was hit a couple years ago. before now, joplin actu...

In oklahoma, the president pledged federal help to victims of the storm, quote, right away. homeland security security janet napolitano will be visiting oklahoma tomorrow, but on her way there, she's going to stop in joplin, missouri to speak at a ceremony marking the anniversary of another massive tornado that ravaged joplin two years ago, took the lives of 161 people. secretary napolitano will fly from joplin to moore, oklahoma where she's planning on meeting with local officials there and inspecting the damage. you know, in 1999, in may, 1999 when the huge tornado with the fastest speeds ev...

>> > welcome back to our continuing coverage of the oklahoma tornado here in moore, oklahoma. we just got a word from the national weather service that says the speed of the peak wind yesterday in this tornado that hit moore was 190 miles per hour. that is how strong it was. this is not the first time this area has been hit by a powerful tornado as we were talking about with john king back in may 1999 an ef-5 tornado hit the area, killed 36. it was on the ground for nearly 90 minutes. if you take a look at this map the path of the '99 tornado in red and the one that tore through here yesterday...