more from nbc's david burrington. >> all of the dead and most of the wounded youngsters were from southeast asia, children of refugees. >> the five kids who died in that mass shooting were all between the ages of 6 and 9. the gunman was a 26-year-old man who killed himself on the scene that day. the weapon he used on that stockton, california schoolyard was an ak-47 assault rifle. the country was shocked by what happened that day. less than two months after that happened, the then president of the united states took executive action as president to ban the importation of some semi-automatic weapons. weapons that could be considered assault weapons. guns that he determined were not suitable for sporting purposes, which meant the president had the power to block them from being imported. president bush had the power to do that and says that foreign-made weapons could only be imported to this country for civilian use if that use was generally recognized as being a sporting purpose. it was already the law, but he took executive action under that law to ban the importation of specific weapons. t