KNTV NBC Nightly News January 16, 2013
Of the assault weapons ban. And then hes going to ask for more aggressive prosecution of existing laws. Let me separate this out a little bit. The first three items are things hes going to ask congress to do. There are actually already bills that have been introduced in the United States senate that deal with those three items. The fourth item has to do with people who essentially lie on background checks, they fail background checks. There were over 71,000 people in 2009 who failed on a background check in an attempt to purchase a gun, but only 44 of those folks were prosecuted. So the presid...