that s according to senator enzi as part of the note that he plans to oppose any legislation. that would be moving the democratic bill forward. that is, it gives republican as great opportunity to come out for things they ve been very much in favor of almost in their entire platform. don t allow the assault weapons ban to move forward. no rules pertaining to high capacity ammunition clips. this is again, it goes to parliamentary procedures to what type of bill that he puts on the floor. the one interesting thing is that harry reid might not want to put anything that could put red state democrats up for re-election in a precarious situation. so a lot will be done in the procedure. these last minutes, can there be an agreement about the private sellers and the records they keep. sorry to interrupt you, senator reid has said that everything should be put on the table. everything should be discussed. so i imagine that encompasses assault weapons ban that has been talked about and many
i mean a simple universal background check limiting ammunition clips. and the assault weapon ban. if they don t act, then we have an opportunity to change congress. and, you know the democrats are better on this than the republicans because they re just intimidated by the gun industry while republicans are owned in congress by the gun industry. we ll have to change congress in 2014 to make a dent in gun violent prevention. john, thank you so much for coming on the program. thank you, chris. today s tweet of the day comes from president barack obama s twitter handle. quote, fact, since 1968, more americans have died from gun violence than in all of america s wars combined. #timetoact. [ dog barking ] [ female announcer ] life is full of little tests, but your basic paper towel can handle them.
store where they run a background check. but it s perfectly legal in 33 states to buy guns from private dealers without a background check. so law-abiding gun owners go to gun stores, criminals go to private gun dealers legally and buy 1,000 weapons a day. it s amazing to me that our members of congress cannot find their backbone enough to require a criminal background check for criminals. well, senator feinstein and obviously the assault weapons ban was really what she was pushing hardest. but she says it s the nra, it shows how much clout they have in washington. in spite of the fact that since newtown there had been some talk about whether their power had been diluted. what do you think is going on here? well, since newtown, over 3,000 more americans have died from guns. 87 americans that woke up today will be dead from firearms. assault weapons in these high-capacity ammunition clips are the weapons of choice and
it fills you with energy. and it gives you what you are looking for to live a more natural life. in a convenient two bar pack. this is nature valley. nature at its most delicious. to politics now where senator dianne feinstein is frustrated over the assault weapons ban. now, the ban won t be part of a democratic gun bill that will come to the floor next month. instead, it will be an amendment, which is a sure sign of low support and it will probably be defeated. feinstein told politico to ask harry reid why the decision was made. tomorrow colorado s governor is expected to sign tough new gun legislation, including expanded background checks and limits on ammunition clips. meantime, on the immigration front, republican senator rand
executive editor, mr. jim vandehei. good morning. good morning. how are you? good. let s talk gun control as it pertains to universal background checks. we talked earlier about the president s dinner meeting last night with republican senators. you say the president s going to continue to reach out today. but we re talking here about chuck schumer and tom coburn. they were working together on universal background checks. looks like now schumer may be going his own way. yeah. the further we get away from those shootings and guns being such a national issue, the harder it is to get a deal. and you see this now where you had coburn and schumer trying to do a deal just on background checks, and it got hung up over what happens when you sell your gun privately to a friend or to a neighbor. they can t even get a deal on background checks, much less what are we going to do about assault weapons? ammunition clips? they re down to that one narrow issue in finding bipartisan support even o