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Similar semi automatic. how do they get guns of any kind between the ages of 13 and 15? it's not legal in tennessee. >> it's not legal. again, part of a group of mayors called mayors against illegal guns. this is such a multifaceted problem. illegal guns are one of the most difficult areas that we have to deal with. clearly by definition they were possessed illegally. guns -- car thefts -- guns from cars have been up dramatically in tennessee and chattanooga over the past few years. we've been urging people to secure their guns as urgency as we possibly can. yes, clearly, these were guns that ...

>> commissioner ramsay, we'll continue to press and look for answers and press on our elected officials to take action. thank you for your time, and offering your expertise. and since uvalde, 17 mass shootings in america have taken place. 17. we're talking about individual incidents with four or more people shot. today a bipartisan group of senators will meet virtually to discuss gun safety legislation and cnn's tom foreman has a look at the last time lawmakers actually did enact a major piece of gun legislation, back in 1994. tom, that was an assault weapons ban among other things, that exp...

Yes, these are a lot of people who die in this period of time. but in a country of 300 million, this is a very small number. so there could be many explanations as to why this happened. but control, they say look at it. maybe the ban is really the reason why. there have been other states that have enacted their own dwun laws, and the bluer they are, the more intense those laws have been to try to deal with this after it expired. with these back in the game, you have to look at the fact that this kind of shooting, these weapons, have shown up in some awfully big events that made the news. the l...

It's just a very common type of rifle. and then there's probably some sort of contagion effect that's in play as well. other shooters have used this gun. some of these attackers glorify the shooters and replicate what they did so they pick this firearm. >> part of it is the semi automatic nature. i want to show our viewers. put the .22 caliber, and then an ar-15 next to it. you can modify almost any gun to make it shoot more rounds a minute or more rounds per second. in terms of an ar-15 compared to a .22, you can fire more bullets more quickly with an ar-15. >> not necessarily. is a .22 is a ...

This is what democrats have been wanting to do since the get-go. they were targeting the most semi-automatic rifles doorway going after all semi-automatic handguns, rifles, everything that is ultimate goal totally. not universal background checks reverse due process and get rid it basically entirely corner stone whether republican goes along with it. this is the same guy, jesse, told everybody to go on the balcony and fire off a shotgun basically be excited for. remember he said shoot the criminal in the knee. all right. dana, thank you dana, another day, another -- >> thank you, jesse. >> hil...