right now on andrea mitchell reports, the monterey park california community devastated by a weekend mass shooting leaving ten dead, ten others injured and the 72-year-old alleged gunman dead while investigators search for motive. i ll speak to the district s congresswoman about the tragedy as well as top law enforcement experts. and a pulse nightclub survivor of that 2016 orlando mass shooting about continuing scourge of guns and high capacity magazines. also this hour, an unprecedented fbi search the private home of a sitting american president, uncovering more classified documents. how the drip by drip of this controversy is eroding support even among leading democrats. should be held accountable and responsible is what we all are and for those in unsecured spaces is irresponsible. at its heart of the issue is the same. those documents should not have been in the personal possession of either joe biden or donald trump. good day, everyone, i m andrea mitchell in
law enforcement reversed what was the initial statement about this. we covered these type of incidents before. there is room, of course, for monday morning quarterbacking and room to update information as it comes in. if you watched the news, you are familiar with that process. but there are some aspects of this painful story that are getting extra scrutiny today. a statement update says now no school official confronted the shooter outside the school. that s a change. the shooter was able to walk in through an unlocked door. 11:40, he walks into the west side of robb elementary. multiple rounds. numerous rounds were discharged in the school. four minutes later, local police departments, uvalde police department, finished the school district marred are inside. making entry. was there a school officer on campus and was that school officer armed? because that s what we have been told. so at this time no. also newly revealed video from that terrible day, what you see her
A search warrant executed at a Cambria Heights man’s home led to the discovery of ghost guns, including assault pistols, silencers and other weapons-related paraphernalia, according to the office of
to me, that points towards personal. it s a personal issue. so maybe that is the situation here. i know we don t know the motive yet, but i see that the age is kind of indicating that maybe there s this historical you know, relationship issue with the community and the people in the community. jim, the officers who briefed on sunday said that the gunman was carrying a semiautomatic assault pistol. not the long gun rather. ar-15 style gun, but in any case, a really dangerous weapon and illegal in california. that s right. that s right, andrea. what happens is a lot of these guns, short style assault pistols were developed to be machine guns. that was the original development of them. they take 30 round magazine. of course you could put a 30 round magazine in a standard handgun as well. they re not some of the models are not real expensive. they re stamped steel.
admit right now that he supports wanton checklist licenseless access to the very type of military grade weapon that was used in the shooting. your thoughts, joyce. the reality is and we all know this to be true, there is entirely too much nra money in our politics. there is no reason that we need to have military grade weapons publicly available and, in fact, like frank, i am a huge fan of using data when we make laws, particularly in the area of criminal justice. and in 1994, president clinton signed legislation that cleared both houses of congress with wide margins that restricted the manufacture and seam of these military weapons, assault rifles, assault pistols. those are weapons of war. they re designed to shoot multiple rounds very quickly. their purchase is to kill people. that legislation also banned