and anytime a guest comes in, we get an alert that says, sheriff joe chapman is here. and we had to take his gun. >> well, i actually made it all the way upstairs before they found it. >> and what happened? >> they asked me to walk through a metal detector and i told them i had my weapon with me and they said that i couldn't come in with it. >> and you said, you can carry your weapon into the capitol but you can't bring it into cnn? >> absolutely. >> is that odd for you? >> pretty odd. >> you're straight out of -- you look like a sheriff. you look like the poster boy for what a sheriff should look like. does that mean, though, because you're a sheriff, what do you think of gun laws and what do you think of assault rifles on the street? i have friends in law enforcement who say -- some of them say, i'm so glad you're bringing up this thing about assault rifles because we're outgunned on the street. and others say, people should be allowed these. where do you stand on that? >> i have a little bit different observation of what you're calling assault weapons. i'm prior mil

and anytime a guest comes in, we get an alert that says, sheriff joe chapman is here. and we had to take his gun. >> well, i actually made it all the way upstairs before they found it. >> and what happened? >> they asked me to walk through a metal detector and i told them i had my weapon with me and they said that i couldn't come in with it. >> and you said, you can carry your weapon into the capitol but you can't bring it into cnn? >> absolutely. >> is that odd for you? >> pretty odd. >> you're straight out of -- you look like a sheriff. you look like the poster boy for what a sheriff should look like. does that mean, though, because you're a sheriff, what do you think of gun laws and what do you think of assault rifles on the street? i have friends in law enforcement who say -- some of them say, i'm so glad you're bringing up this thing about assault rifles because we're outgunned on the street. and others say, people should be allowed these. where do you stand on that? >> i have a little bit different observation of what you're calling assault weapons. i'm prior mil

. >> reporter: sheriff joe chapman says the woman began firing all six rounds, hitting the suspect in the face and neck five times. >> she starts yelling at him, stay down or i'm going to shoot you again. that's when she gets her two children out of the crawl space, and they run downstairs and run out of the house to a neighbor next door. >> reporter: they ran next door, and the man took off in his truck. sheriff chapman says 32-year-old paul slater crashed up the road. deputies found him on the ground. chapman said he told the deputies, help me, i'm close to dying. the mother and her children were not harmed. >> we're in the neighborhood where several law enforcement officers lived, and i don't think they could have handled the situation any better than what she did. >> her lives are saved, and her kids lives are saved. that's all i'd like to say. >> our thanks to affiliate wusb reports the suspect was placed on a ventilator with punctured lungs, a punctured liver, and a punctured stomach. >>> the man accused of using three guns to murder people at a colorado movie theater will be in