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i have heard at one time. >> the world i will run out of chocolate by 2020. >> the real life willie wonka with a real life horror story. thanks for joining us i'm joie chen. big sky of montana where individual rights and guns would seem to hold sway but the latest standoff between gun control advocates and the it will nra is lining up in america's second biggest city. "america tonight's" adam may. >> hayes has traded and sold guns almost his entire life. >> now i'm going to load the gun. it's loaded and ready to fire. would you like to shoot it? >> reporter: uh sure. >> excellent you did a good job. >> reporter: did i get it?

he has a collection you wouldn't believe, weapons of all shapes and sizes, from modern to ancient, from walls of guns to actual tanks. the history buff has run the missoula montana gun shows for decades. one of the oldest and largest gufgun shows in the country. but now otto pollack says his gun show is under attack. the city of missoula is considering a new ordinance which would require background checks for nearly all private gun sales including those at gun shows. >> this is an ordinance amending the missoula title 9, requiring criminal background checks on all gun sales and transfers. >> reporter: in montana it's a radical proposition, background checks at gun shows are

currently not required by the state. >> in 47 years not once has the atf the fbi, the state attorney general's office the city police the sheriff's office, not once has the missoula gun show ever been involved in any single thing where any criminal investigation has been brought noort we havfort that we have bd in it. >> reporter: you are saying no official has come to you questioning a gun sale? >> never. >> reporter: supporters say background checks will save lives. with its loose gun laws, montana has the sixth highest rate of gun deaths in the country earning the state a failed grade on the annual report card. >> i think there's a lot of the kind of cowboy mentality that is all around us and there's just a long history and an assumption

that everyone has a gun, and there's a big focus on the second amendment and how important that is to daily life. >> yes i do love my family but i also love my second amendment rights which is what most of you are trying to infringe on at this point in time. >> but i don't quite see it the same way. i guess as a mom and just knowing that we can make things safer in mi missoula, with common sense gun laws. >> heidi kendall volunteers at the local chapter of moms demand action, upset by easy access to guns. >> why are you lobbying city hall instead of lobbying your state lawmakers? >> because you do what you can and it's not happening so far in washington, d.c. and it's not happening in helena montana our capital.

so we operate in the sphere of influence that we have and that is our city council. in missoula. they're listening. they're listening to us, it's fantastic. >> i would like to ask them all to stand and raise their hands in support of expanding background checks to all gun sales in missoula city. >> reporter: in montana, missoula is the obvious place to push for regulation at the city level. while the big sky state skews conservative and republican, this college town skews liberal and democrat. >> i'm a mom a liberal and a straight legislator. >> she supports stronger gun control laws. >> so when you do a background check you know whether or not somebody has been adjudicated mentally ill and you're prevented from buying a firearm which seems like a common sense approach to -- >> that's not happening in montana? >> not happening in montana.

>> law america hill who is a gun owner herself and enjoys shooting with her husband, is ensure use with the government legislation. >> it is not my father's nra, it is changed into a political organization, it is a political organization that funds money into candidates that only support their very extreme legislation. >> what kind of bills are we talking about? >> i mean it's almost unbelievable if you tell an everyday montana democrat or republican the kind of bills that they try to push through this state. bills like putting guns at your university campuses. putting guns in bars in banks making it so that your er physician can't ask whether you come in on an ambulance whether you have a firearm or not. the amount of absurdity it's not safe. kids will die, and montana

doesn't need that change in gun laws. >> i understand the terminology has been morphed into this is about gun safety. this is about gun control, that is what this is about. >> reporter: at the missoula city council meeting, a representative was given five minutes to testify. he declined our request for an interview but hayes shares with us. >> i'm sitting here with a book from the atf and this book is ten years old. in fine print, and it's -- >> these are just some of the gun laws. >> and it's 242 pages of federal laws on guns. >> reporter: ottopolack said when felons tried to buy guns those felons were never prosecuted.

>> when you filled out that form and it said you have a restraining order you said no, you committed perjury you committed a felony signing that form. i don't know how many forms you went around and filled out but you're not using your head. you're committing a felony. >> he had done it repeatedly? >> done it more than once. >> proof he says more laws won't reduce gun violence. >> enforce the laws they got in america between the federal government and states there's already 20,000 gun laws on the books. >> what do you say about the argument though that you need to get a license to drive a car. why -- >> you don't have to have a license to buy a car. to drive a car on a public road that's one thing, that's what our society says but cars are not a part of the bill of rights, firearms are the second amendment to the u.s. constitution.

realized our freedom was no better than our ability to protect our freedom and sometimes you have to protect yourself from your own government. governments are dangerous to their own people. >> reporter: but missoula's proposed law may be a sign of changing times. one report shows support for expanding background checks at more than 80% and this in a state where almost 60% of residents own a gun. is the tide turning here in montana? >> it's turning here and everywhere because now people that used to not care what the nra did now when you have kids dying, consume i don't want to start crying but when you have kids dying in preschools in kindergartens then you have moms and dads and folks that aren't single-issue voters that are caring very deeply about this issue and they are standing up and they're rising and they're saying not in our town. not in missoula and not in montana.

>> those against more gun laws like ottopolack, say they are outraged about gun violence but they see the problem and the solution in starkly different terms. >> the big problem in this country is the mental-ill problem but that's the loop heels. that's the giant loop holes is trying to get a handle on the mental problem. you can't stop a mentally deranged person from obtaining a weapon. or sticking their head or sitting and saying hey, the only way to take care of a bad guy is with a gun, you need to get rid of him and that means the shooter. >> more guns versus less guns with the argument virtually going nowhere at the national and state level it's finding momentum in city halls, in some of the most unlikely places. >> "america tonight's" adam may joins us.

tell us what the status of this ordinance is at this point? >> it's faced rigorous more people on board to support this including gun owners. now those who have a concealed carry permit won't have to go through this additional background check if they are to make a private purchase and they are finding more supporters are getting on board. it is very unlikely this bill will pass in the coming weeks. >> what's the impact within the community? >> that's a good question. the people in support of this said they were motivated, alarmed by the number of mass shootings across the country. will background checks really stop a lot of these mass shootings? they do obtain their handguns legally in sandy hook in oregon they got these guns through parents and family members. but really the goal here is to swings the pendulum, people to

loosen gun laws, to make them more available and they don't see them, especially in red states, to tighten, they hope background checks swing the momentum and the possible benefits of of tightening those gun laws. >> missoula is such an unlikely place but they are being inspired by places like sandy hook. >> statistics are loaded and everyone tries to skew the statistics in their favor. 18 states plus washington, d.c. have strengthened background check requirements to exceed the federal requirements now. and in most of those states they have seen reduced levels of gun violence. some states have seen reductions in the teens and 20s, even higher. so they are saying look there is proof that background checks work. maybe they won't stop mass shootings but there are dozens of shootings

shootings everyday in this country. maybe you can reduce the daily shootings that sadly we have become accustomed to. >> has the nra made their presence flown? >> the spokesman for that region who is headquartered in california, this is a person who has lobbied very hard at the state level now you're seeing a switch that the n rmplea not just fighting -- nra not just fighting at a federal level or state level but defending their position at city halls. >> flex we follow up on the fate of wild horses. and a halloween horror story, could we be running out of chocolate? and coming up, on "america tonight," the first roman catholic cathedral in the united states, at aljazeera.com/americatonight.

>> these people have decided that today they will be arrested. >> i know that i'm being surveilled. >> people are not getting the care that they need. >> this is a crime against humanity. >> hands up... >> don't shoot. >> hands up... >> don't shoot. >> what do we want? >> justice. >> when do we want it? >> now. >> explosions going on... we're not quite sure - >> is that an i.e.d.? >> "faultlines". al jazeera america's award-winning investigative series. monday, 10:00 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> a fast forward look now out on the open range in the wilds

of wyoming. a program to bring wild horses under control and remove them from millions of acres of public land, wild horses might instead have been slaughtered for their meat. chris bury, home on the range. >> for many years ginger has focused her lens on wild horse he, has joined a bitter battle, siding with preservationists, the blm to round up he's these horses and remove them from this part of wyoming forever. the cattle ranchers argue that these wild horses overrun these lands. the organization that represents them ha has won a lawsuit against

the bureau of land management forcing the removal of hoarse from the land. rounding them up by helicopter to control their population. out here they have few natural predators. unchecked their numbers would grow by 20% the blm says so the blm has turned to selling some of the horses on the condition buyers take good care of them put now a federal investigation is underway into allegations hundreds were sold to be killed for their meat. a felony offense. the bureau of land management requires buyers to sign contracts saying the animals won't be resold for slaughter. but the biggest buyer by far is a colorado live stock hauler who has publicly vokd tha publicly e horse he should be sold for slaughter. since 2009 tom davis has bought

more than 1700 wild horse he according to his blm, uncovered by the investigative group pro-publica . claimed the horses would be used for ploif movies and turned out to pasture. but he sent husband to spofford texas on their way to slaughterhouses in mexico. >> he's a kill buyer, everyone knows he was a kill buyer, blm knows that. >> fast forward to an admission, policing such things now admits it failed leading the wild horses to be sold for meat. and that livestock hauler we just met tom davis did confess to his role. next the real life willy

wonka and his craziest prediction. a prayer for a trouble city chicago's new death count and what can save a community now. 930

>> it's that weekend when our thoughts turn to ghosts goblins and chocolate, lots of it. but this headline one that strikes real fear in the hearts

of millions, get this: the world is running out of chocolate and who's to blame for this? who can save us from a cocoa calamity? who knows more about chocolate than willy wonka. >> it looks like heaven. incredible. >> just a giant -- i mean it's full to the brim with chocolate! >> this is as close as any of us will ever get to living little charlie's dream. >> just imagine all those people going to enjoy it how many different products it's going to make. >> cocoa coins, gift-wrapped good eies. this is not ann gu's factory ans factory. he

samples, the man's job is to eat chocolate for a living, as much as three pounds of it a day. >> i'm considered to be the real life willy wonka, that is creative magical side that people want to believe in with chocolate. >> you might say he was born with a chocolate bar in thotomy. iin themouth. his parents published an industry journal. >> i was like little charlie. saying i don't want this dream to end. i'm still saying that now. >> but the man living in a sugar coated dream warns there is a bitter nightmare brewing. >> you are the man behind one of the most terrifying predictions i have heard in some time. >> the world will run out of chocolate by 2020. >> what? yes, really. the world could run out of chocolates by 2020!

kennedy first made this doomsday prediction last year, backed up by the big names in the business, mars, the people who make snickers and m&ms as well as the bell januar belgian ing company, the ca cacao tree, two small countries ivory coast and ghana produce 70% of the world's cocoa. >> that's why there's a lot in the news about cocoa becoming the new powdered gold. >> powdered gold? >> yes, powdered gold. >> there's another reason the price of chocolate is rising like gold. you, me, we are the real-life augustus gloops. >> grandpa look at the augustus.

>> please i beg you, augustus. >> like augustus we eat a lot of chocolate. on average, americans scarf up 11 pounds per person per year. although the swiss eat even more and new chocka chockaholics are from china now. and inclusion like creams and crispies and the industry's substitute for chocolate. >> the cheapest bit is sugar. you are finding that chocolate is getting sweeter and smaller. there are ways that the industry is promoting the fact that it's good that you're getting a smaller bar. one is the fact thattist less calories. >> less ca calories?

>> no its not. it's lest chocolate. more almonds, it's less chocolate. but chocolate can taste amazing. >> kennedy says you can tell if you got the high quality stuff in a snap. >> it's called a snap-test. what you want to do is pick up one of these and literally break it and listen. >> i don't hear anything. >> right, good. and then you pick up the other one which is like got more high concentration of cocoa butter. >> definitely makes a snap. >> the reason it made that noise is the crystallization of the ingredients. it's got more cocoa butter. >> none of what he brought to our interview tasted bad. even on his worst days, angus kennedy still has the best job in the

world. chocolate launched his career, helped him court his wife. even helped the expansion of their family. >> wasn't the reason she married me but she stuck with me all along and the family i've got, well, it's because of chocolate that i have five kids because of chocolate and champagne actually. >> which explains why even though he's had to cap his teeth to cover the casts and the doctors warn the constant cycle of gorging on chocolate and extreme exercise is tolling on his health, angus is doing what chocolate. >> so many factors that cause us to eat more and contributing to the shortage, it is a big problem. one thing for sure: people are not going to eat less.

>> i'm certainly not. on that note, happy halloween, trick or treat daylight saving time and this weekend and we monday. "america tonight" will begin airing at a new time 9:30 p.m. mob throug monday through friday. come back we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. >> you're the first one on the scene. suicides, homicides, the roof is crushing into somebody's chest. >> what is the number one cause of death for police officers? >> suicide.

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