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identity is being diluted by the country been given the money already feeding any native by israel's policies of expansion and treatment promised. more in those stories and more news for you and from now in the meantime it's the second part of our special report that takes a fresh look at the impact of guns in america. if you want to play god work you get in they will dance to get any gun store they're going to like a background check and you write what you buy there. and they are big event is a gun show they have a huge chance and this is where the gun store sellers can also go and set shop but the individual people records the person in question can come and also set up a table and these himself against the gay seller say shabbes are still held to the same regulation that they need to read back and check on every purchase or food to people who can he said privately off sometimes you know the same day that took

place and seller has is now required to write a background check said why are you not holding this to sell or selling the same the same trads to same standard that's the problem just a loophole. to her and show people hey they have to. have a. way to let me get. to it i. thought i. heard it right. there are all right automatic and all their lives. right when i. read all. right we're going to have

a. girl i know you. know. that they have never seen anything. like i am. right. here and i hand her. this entire transaction that we just recorded break broke no law federal or state law but this is why i want to do isp has to show these simple transactions and say this is something that's perfectly legal if for countless shot i think like most

americans who didn't have much involvement with gun violence it never to show lives and we weren't really involved in the issue or didn't know a lot of the facts i knew that there were a lot of deaths the newspaper it should beat it and that many were cheated to guns but i didn't really realize how big the problem was i to my son was sitting in french class in a small college town and he actually four comes. that makes it to me makes it any could be anyone could anything it could anything. after i recovered. and went back to school. hours things you brought this is. the gun show loophole is one of the simplest steps we can search for to improve the safety of guns falling into the wrong hands. so this is going to be a top primarily about the epidemiology of violence the prevention of violence some research that's been done you all know that my area of expertise in general

is what happens upstream in that chain of events that brings people to the emergency department having been exposed to it i decided this was something that needs to be quantified it's a story that needs to be told. the whole report will deal with what i see is the problematic aspects of what goes on it controls how guns are bought and sold anonymously how they're bought sold illegally what kind of weapons are bought and sold some aspects of the relationship between gun shows in extreme right wing politics neo not system video confederacy. one of the things that i've been able to document is a straw purchase that is illegal everywhere and here's how it works let's say that i'm prohibited from owning guns i'm a felon but you are not i'm going to hire you to buy a gun for me from

a licensed retailer there's one in phoenix the real purchaser is handing cash to the straw purchaser in the red t. shirt which the straw purchaser then puts in his pocket the two of them walk around the corner where the real purchaser indicates the gun that he wants to buy. the straw purchaser gets hold of a sales clerk indicates that that's the gun the straw purchaser is completing the paperwork and zip to a more senior person at this retailer he gets on the phone as he is required to do and he calls the national instant criminal background check system but he's got the straw purchasers identification not surprisingly keep has passed the background check the straw purchaser hands over the money the real purchaser moves in and helps pack up the gun nobody had the sense that

a body was watching nobody had to sense if they would get in any trouble so that felonies were conducted right out in the open they're the kind of transactions that make it easy for criminals to get guns. not too many years ago the air force commissioned a study of these weapons pointing out the fact that no airport civilian or military was entirely safe the range of these weapons was such that a determined bad guy could be well outside the security perimeter of an airport and still have a fair shot of an airliner as it took off or landed. these guns are available from private individuals for cash no background check no waiting period no questions no record. this is on the list for the house for who we think could be

a likely co-sponsor on the legislation that we have twenty three twenty four the gun show loophole bill and as of today we committed a couple more marks right here for example. as you know that means they have agreed to co-sponsor our bill in the house. the basic requirements hold everyone at these gun shows everyone who sells comes to the same standard that's the first step it's not all private sales which is however much we would like to see all private sales but it's it's kind of the most from the most reasonable the most common sense first step with that. forum and we're doing the video talent's undercover video and when you're speaking your house how is this going to be presented first. and what he said in minutes we'll be doing about seven in the forum or be the biggest event that i've ever spoken i think you can a lot of your story i think it's important to have and i've spoken at rallies but

i've never spoken in front of congress so it was something for me it's definitely a big day the main thing is is to tell the story to tell well to answer to questions you know you're laying the groundwork for us to build on for the next year or two years to come ok i i feel good. i feel nervous. if people agree that felons should be able to buy guns why shouldn't we do a background check on guys thanks to the gun lobby in the n.r.a. try to think of every argument they could to stop this big banks ball and they do it with the idea that we're really out here protecting your right for gun ownership but what they're really doing is they're protecting the gun manufacturers and the gun dealers and ending up supporting the illegal gun distribution system in this country. richard feldman spent two decades working with one of the nation's most secretive organizations the national rifle association his new memoir ricocheted it

confessions of a gun lobbyist chronicles his time with the n.r.a. and other gun groups you write that the n.r.a. often likes to draw lines of us versus them do you think they're unwillingness to compromise has contributed to the success now that's a fair very fair question yes if we. define success is fundraising it certainly has been very successful when you do fundraising you want to have an identifiable enemy you want to keep the issue black and white the word compromise to the n.r.a. is a dirty word never give an inch is the slogan fighting is good for the n.r.a. doing battle is good but they have to make issues sometimes when issues don't really exist just to keep that fund raising going well when they were asked to comment on your book a spokesperson told the washington post we don't comment on works of fiction. we all know that the n.r.a. is powerful and that the n.r.a. is ruthless but when they turn on one of their own and he decides to turn back on

them it's kind of like peering into a burlap sack full of ill tempered so and i just ask you on a personal level having been a top lobbyist at the n.r.a. having been essentially forced out of the gun lobby by the n.r.a. being unhappy with your approach to things how has this been for you personally to have been really kind of booted out well they needed to get rid of me because they want to be the only game in town and when i cut that voluntary child safety law deal with bill clinton without getting the table blessing from n.r.a. we were threatening their gemini over this issue thank you it was a remarkable gathering in the rose garden this morning because here with the head good industry and the president actually agreeing on something i'm pleased to announce that eight of the largest hand gun manufacturers now provide child safety devices with every new handgun they sell back in one thousand nine hundred seven

there was legislation in the senate to mandate child safety locks on guns there was pretty much universal agreement in the industry that we ought to do this on our own get the credit for doing it we thank you mr president without having pledge. site of all regulatory mandates on the way we had to do it the n.r.a. came unglued after that announcement i sort of went from the guy who came from n.r.a. representing the industry to being an r a's public enemy number two. well we had really done was and several fundraisers for them i mean once we made the decision to include child safety locks it was no sense opposing something that's already a done deal. i don't think n.r.a. senior leadership like that too much to feel secure.

thirty to forty miles of those probably fifty thousand people going to be here over the next four days and this is just one of three balls. n.r.a. volunteers they need a lot of volunteers because they pay that staff so much. they are worth it or you're. yeah well they are and they've been watching us i guess. you know we've got a year. where you didn't have to prepare a party for me. earlier this. week where i just heard. well we have to check the series and it's not just the n.r.a.

i sat in on any interviews with anyone at an r.a. every writer has an angle. there i'd like to know that this particular issue is a very. you know we don't. carry this church. every. i don't know if you farai we got pulled off the floor earlier today really yells you criticize the iterate well i don't think i said it on film where they had it but alley some people were nervous. this is one for the history books the first ever supreme court declaration that america's right to own a gun show protects. it is the first time the u.s. supreme court has ever taken up the right to bear arms under the second amendment sense it was ratified back and seven hundred eighty one the second amendment rights

justice antonin scalia protection individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use it for lawful purposes such as self-defense justice scalia was careful not to throw out all gun control laws stating flatly the second amendment right is not unlimited. what do you see as being the current state of gun laws you know taking into context the history of american gun laws and where you think it's going i think in large measure the firearm the debate in america is really over in our it's kind of a supporters' ation and if it's cause goes away it goes away they need a dragon to slay in order to continue to develop their membership in order to motivate their members and in order to fundraise from their members i get a fundraising letter from n.r.a. about every other or every third week. and some a lot it is and some of them are really pretty intense and here's one from

from the summer dear mr feldman some of congress' most powerful anti gunners demanding a registration list of every american gun owner they want your name this to feldman they want to know where you live your address that's pretty frightening stuff i kind of disagree with the idea of scaring your members out of their hard earned dollars precedented government intervention chipping away at your rights to your freedom the n.r.a. instills a tremendous amount of fear in its members and the thing is it works. it motorized their members but you can stop them if you look at the historical moment there's really very limited threats to gun rights i mean we just came out of eight years of george bush in republican controlled congress we saw gun rights legislation during that period not gun control legislation two thousand and seven we see the worst single shooter killing spree in the history of the country at virgin you attack and

here a few years later we have virginia passing gun rights legislation right so repealing some of the earlier gun control legislation that was passed do you believe in your right to own a gun you so you may be an endangered species called one eight seven seven two thousand and join the n.r.a. i think there are a range of n.r.a. members and among the most committed are the true believers the diehard n.r.a. members those are the gun crusaders. maybe one out of three n.r.a. members would fall into this category there's a huge chunk of gun owners in our country who are not n.r.a. members the n.r.a. has a membership of about four million there are something like eighty million gun owners in our country but the n.r.a. is driven by these gun crusaders these really hard in that they were. they were able to create these end. of the biggest deliberations with. the n.r.a. is able to recruit intensely committed members because they're framing gun rights

or threats to gun rights in a way that makes them feel like all their rights are threatened or you're proud of your country want to stay in school or i was worried thank you i was american. thank you very much was right which thank you. there are a good audience is conservative white gun owning men and they feel pinched and they feel sort of displaced in our society have been fired up. the last election i got enough change already and again only more if you have been losing the country to others they feel like the minority they feel like you know immigrants and lesbians people of color are taking over the country and these conservative whites are now the numerical minority so they're going to act offers a message that not only are guns being taken away but so are your core beliefs your

identity your values your status your power is that correct my interpretation of what you said is that the right to insurrection against the federal government is a god given right that you're protecting god given sure that is correct. our founders did they have this political propaganda that essentially the federal government is depriving americans of their free and that they are resistance there shouldn't be any federal gun control or the federal government has no authority should be no federal jails there should not be you know lifting i just out this is a movement that has potential radical if not revolutionary. intentions self-defense is a. benefit of being able to shoot the government. that's why we have a second amendment that's what we did with it we shut the government when the government broke the contract with the american colonies we shot up and we pushed

them out issue i call this the insurrectionists theory of the second amendment and it's very dangerous it is an idea that is a threat to the very foundations of our democracy it's a foul it's a threat to the rule of law itself it's an invitation to vigilanteism it's an invitation to take up arms literally against public officials if you don't like what they're doing. if you have any doubt about how dangerous that is reflecting back on the oklahoma city bombing. and. it is a see no devastate. and on certainty in a small city that has never before been touched by terrorism to missing a line it was an individual who absorbed this. ideology and he acted it out he concluded that the time for revolution had come. to the federal building . and he knew that one of the agencies in that building was the bureau of alcohol

tobacco and fire which was the government agency that he thought would be the one to come for. in ohio citizen soldiers trained for urban combat while snipers in michigan practice with high powered weapons. this insurrectionist idea which is also what motivates these militia groups formed back in the ninety's reforming to get a report out today he claims fifty new militia training and sprung up in less than two years just one law enforcement source but a dangerous mix is brewing and all that's missing is a spark. founders were very clear about this it wasn't for honey that we have the second amendment they fear they fear big government and that is why the people should be armed it doesn't mean that we're agitating for the use of these arms but it always holds government in check we can't continue expanding the

domestic anti-woman system so the time will come hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared but the most important thing that we do is to understand the importance of defending liberty so that we can preserve the greatness of this country i thank you very much. the rest of the world has figured out that they can do something about gun violence other countries have taken steps to license guns to register gods that require training and i'm not saying all those are things that should be done here does this early but there are things that we can do. since we don't think bad guys should

have guns we should do background checks and find out if those who are buying guns are bad guys or not we do that for some sales we don't do it for all of them we should do it for all of them it's just that simple gun safes just stop selling guns to keep like keith into a straw sales are one of the most common ways they can to get into the hands of criminals why wouldn't congress give foresman the resources to do undercover inspections if thirty percent of the trafficking cases are connected to conscious why would you close the gun show loophole. the way it works here is that congress is so afraid of everything else the n.r.a. can do to them that they won't make the simple gesture to make all of us safe so you've got to try to find the middle ground into the gun show loophole is the thing that the public really odd again. are you sure

you know this if you think this bill has any chance i mean or is opposed to this status string of victories in the supreme court here on capitol hill filled d.c. voting rights i mean were forced to be going up against this so. it was really bad today. no background check. no background. factors congressman i wouldn't be sitting here in front of you today for the events that are going to force sixteenth two thousand and seven invasion in tech. i wouldn't be sitting here in front of you today if it wasn't for the ten minutes of hell that i survived on that day and i wouldn't be sitting here in front of you today if our federal gun laws had been stronger the existing brady act as it is written is too weak to protect future americans from from another some riccio or other prohibited birch sers i can think of no reasonable responsible logical reason

why that should be the fact is congressman i wouldn't be sitting here in front of you today if i didn't believe with every part of me that my elected officials will do what is responsible and reasonable to protect their citizens. thank you very much for your time mr goddard i'd just like to say that your testimony is compelling is a testimony i've heard. i would hope that all members of congress could hear that could make a big difference clearly with this particular issue so i want to thank our all our witnesses today for most conclude. thank you still another college campus shooting this time northern illinois university in de kalb and in the mayhem at northern illinois in the mid shooting at public schools and colleges in just one week what's it going to take one columbine happened people thought of columbine start enough nothing's enough well columbine wasn't enough

a couple of years ago there was a whole string of shootings on campus virginia tech certainly most horrifically and people said if this isn't enough nothing's enough hold for genius wasn't enough not even in virginia let alone a federal law so i frankly don't know what's. more

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