host: our guest is jonathan lowy. our phone lines are open. host: what isn't being done that needs to be done? guest: as i have said: we have to expand background checks to all gun sales. it will really makes no sense that a convicted felon, who we all recognize should not be able to buy a gun and prevented from buying a gun from a gun store can simply go across the street to a gun show or go online to .1 of these gun-selling websites and buy all of the guns he wants, no questions asked, no background check. >> should be our top priority. we also need to crack down opinion bad-apple gun dealers. most gun dealers are responsible busy people. but .5% of gun dealers sell virtually all crime guns, .90s % of the crime guns. we need to make them held accountable and change the way they do business. we also need to create public awareness about the risks of guns in the home to prevent children and other dangerous people like sandy hook shooter from getting access to those guns. host: a recent research by pew shows how things have involved. among thos

host: our guest is jonathan lowy. our phone lines are open.ost: what isn't being done that needs to be done? guest: as i have said: we have to expand background checks to all gun sales. it will really makes no sense that a convicted felon, who we all recognize should not be able to buy a gun and prevented from buying a gun from a gun store can simply go across the street to a gun show or go online to .1 of these gun-selling websites and buy all of the guns he wants, no questions asked, no background check. >> should be our top priority. we also need to crack down opinion bad-apple gun dealers. most gun dealers are responsible busy people. but .5% of gun dealers sell virtually all crime guns, .90s % of the crime guns. we need to make them held accountable and change the way they do business. we also need to create public awareness about the risks of guns in the home to prevent children and other dangerous people like sandy hook shooter from getting access to those guns. host: a recent research by pew shows how things have involved. among those

eastern is jonathan lowy of the brady center. another view to pair with what we had today with larry pratt of the gun owners of america. he will talk about congress and advocacy groups since the shootings at sandy hook. that is tomorrow's "washington journal. " we hope you enjoy the rest of your day-to-day, and we will see you back here tomorrow. ♪ } >> coming up today here on on pan, a house hearing combating isi. take you to the justice from march. that event being organized by several civil rights groups, of of rpton, and the families michael brown. capitol hill today, the senate will be in session beginning at noon eastern.

some of the changes he says need to be done in mental health care across the country and later, jonathan lowynter to prevent gun violence. that's just ahead on "washington journal" as we continue on this sunday morning. we are back in a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ a,"his week on "q and political reporters share stories about being on the campaign trail with senator mitch mcconnell. >> he had planned for four years this campaign. this started in 2010 right after he so what happened in the republican primary with rand paul. rand paul be mitch mcconnell's handpicked guy in that primary. mcconnellint, realized i have to recalibrate everything i know about republican primary politics in my home state and he started to make changes and hired key staff and started to build this very sophisticated infrastructure knowing this would be the most difficult race in his campaign. >> they knew they were going to spend a lot of money on technology and had watched the obama campaign in 2008 and 2012. they had watched harry reid's reelection in 2010. they knew that they needed to do this. he was going to have the latest tec