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Two of them. one died on an operating table. his parents had to come identify his body and the other never got off the dance floor. their organs were perforated. their bodies were torn apart. that is the human cost, the reality, of what these weapons do. no amount of copy/pasting, gun-lobby talking points is going to change that. and no insulting comparisons to a swiss army knife is going to take away the pain that these weapons have caused so many people in this country. california's assault weapons ban comes during a time when gun sales in the u.s. are just skyrocketing. millions of americ...

>> reporter: in the pink ear muffs, that's robin armstrong. just bought her first gun. >> i bought a springfield xd, 9 millimeter. that's my first one but i do plan on buying two more. >> reporter: america is on a gun-buying spree. >> we have seen record numbers for the past few months and i fear that's going to continue. >> reporter: the government doesn't keep a tally but the fbi counts presale background checks, not perfect. but shows the pattern. take march, 2019. 2.6 million. march 2020, 3.7 million. this march? nearly 4.7 million. most, in a month, since the fbi started counting, 20-plus...

In the left-hand turn waiting to go westbound, a person on foot came up to them tearing a springfield xd .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun and opened fire on the vehicle. luckily -- i want to repeat luckily -- our officer was only hit in hand. it could have been much, much worse. our suspect took off in an eastbound direction. the officer that was not struck was able to get out of the car, that being the driver of our patrol vehicle chased after this suspect and was able to apprehend anymore a parking lot east of the shooting. >> i'm going to get to that suspect in a minute but take me back to...

marketsite. "american morning" starts right now. >> no vote on the debt plan again. i'm christine romans. as the u.s. economy lurches closer to a financial crisis, the political crisis continues. house speaker john boehner calls off a vote, unable to convince hardline conservatives in his party to sign on to his plan. >> i'm kiran chetry. more than 90% of texas is now in extreme drought. the state could sure use a lot of rain and now tropical storm don is expected to make landfall along the southern coast today. >> and it's happened again, a muslim-american soldier in police custody ...