host: accomplishments bradley byrne joins us for his first appearance at our desk. -- congressman bradleyyrne. debate, it's about more than the second amendment. it's about executive overreach and the limits the constitution places on the president. know from taking high school civics, the way you make laws in america is that the congress passes a law and the president signs it. what he is trying to do is criminalize something that has not been criminalized before, private gun sales. the statute in place does not cover those in sales. if you wants to cover those, you go through the congress, we pass a law and it comes to his desk and he signs it. he cannot act unilaterally. he has tried to do this and other areas before and he failed. he will fail on this one as well. a better way is to address the underlying problem. in one set of circumstances, people with mental health issues and the other circumstance with a lone wolf terrorist threat. let's talk about those. host: you practiced law for a long time. the president in his remarks yesterday talked about the second amendment and how the s

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