like machine guns or guns with silencers. that was in the year 2000. 900. by the year 2014, it wasn't 900 applications anymore. it was over 90,000 applications. this has become a significant issue. so today president obama naupsed that people using gun trusts to buy restricted weapons he, they will now have to undergo a background collect. that will not be a way around the background check for those restricted weapons. this is one of those things where the hardest thing about it to understand is this wasn't already the case but this wasn't already the case. on the policy level, there's a lot of really interesting specific stuff about what president obama announced today that he could do as president on reforming gun laws. even if congress refuses to do anything themselves. and the policy level, there's a lot of interesting specific stuff. on the political level though, the thing that is remarkable here, of course, is the level of upset caused by this issue. how upset the right gets about