is legal for an eight-year-old or nine-year-old and go to a gun range and access a fully automatic usey and we have a country where that is legal and easy to do. basically makes no sense. >> machine guns, and this was a machine gun, a fully automatic machine gun that are among the most highly regulated firearms in the united states. since 1934 when the national firearms act passed in the gangster era of tommy guns. you have to get a special license and much more thorough background check than for a typical begun. but at a gun range they consider the use of the gun at the range not a transfer of the gun, so for the people who are accessing the gun there they don't need to get that license or go through any training or background check, and i think it raises basic questions if these guns are so heavily regulated everywhere else, does it make sense for an eight-year-old or nine-year-old to have access to a gun? this is happens before several years ago in massachusetts an eight-year-old boy also with an fully automatic uzi lost control of it, shot himself in the head, and he died. in the mi

national standards and testing bill a couple of weeks ago, within the last two weeks, just jerked usey had around for 10 years on a and iris standard for id. they promised and promised but did not perform. i don't want to be coming back to hearing saying where are they with development. we need some federal and or and we need to do tests that have acceptable standards to evaluate people who are on the job and transportation and make sure the public is safe. do you see my point? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i know the chairman did not mean to suggest in any way that colorado is not a safe ways to go skiing. his friends at dinner may have a private view. i'm sure there are wonderful reasons to go to colorado and someone anywhere else wishes to ski. i know my colleagues that are not here would want me to say that. >> maybe you could stay home in florida or go to virginia. there is legislation with respect to pilot license medical certification here in congress that would no longer require -- for a pilot whose -- who carries up to five passengers. are you aware of that legislation? >> yes,