that have would his name should have been put on the list once he got out? what s the process? yeah, absolutely. upon conviction. and also the military confinement facilities had their own obligation or their own duty to report. what should have been done is the fbi through the criminal justice services database that s maintained by the fbi should have been made aware of this. from there it goes into a system called the national instant background check, which then is accessed by all gun dealers in the country. so in other words, before they can sell a gun legally, they have to run the person s information through this national background check database, which is part of the brady act in 1993 named after press secretary james brady. all these fail saves that are supposed to exist that should
evil is evil is evil. we have a lot of mental health problems in our country as do other countries. but this isn t a guns situation. this is a mental health problem at the highest level. it s a very, very sad event. these are great people and a very, very sad event. but that s the way i view it. as you heard president trump there say this is a mental health problem, the source of this mass shooting in texas, he said, was a mental health problem. not a gun problem. but the president actually quietly signed the bill last february that rolled back an obama era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun. in fact, president obama recommended the rule back in 2013 after the sandy hook shooting, and had it fully taken in effect. it would have added about 75,000 names to the national background check database. it s now expired and people with
reports apparently a fight broke out in the street and led to stone being stabbed in the torso. so far, no word of any arrests. a u.s. air force official says stone is alive and in stable condition at this time. we ll continue to follow the latest developments. but also, this tweet just coming in from alex scarlatos, one of the men who was with stone when they kept that terror attack from happening. he tweeted out just moments ago everybody send prayers out to the stone family today. that is also one of the heroes there, one of the three who stopped that attacker on that train in france. also developing now, senate democrats are threatening to block bills in the senate until something is done on gun safety legislation. that, of course, in the wake of that mass shooting in oregon. in a news conference just moment ago, a group of senators unveiled their new three-part proposal which includes closing background check loopholes, ebs panding the background check
reporter: yeah, jake, basically we re learning some very new information about what aaron alexis was doing in the hours before he allegedly came on to the navy yard and started shooting. exactly one day before that, he came right here to the sharpshooters gun shop in lorton, virginia, a suburb of washington, d.c. he was here a few hours and basically what he did was, he paid the store to use one of their rifles. he also bought some ammunition for that rifle and he stayed here at the gun shop, at the target range. he did some target practice with that rifle and then he bought a remington 870 12 gauge shotgun. we re also told he bought about two cases of ammunition, about 24 shells, with that. now, while he was here, they ran his name through the federal background check database. it took a couple hours. he was here a couple hours. but basically, there was no problem in that background check. he had a valid out of state
cyber to take down our government si systems our banking systems. it s almost a one-two punch where it s there is a cyber attack and coupled with an explosive attack to amplify the affects of one another, jenna. jenna: something to pay attention to. catherine, thank you. reporter: you re welcome. jon: we ve told you president obama is making a big push to control guns taking his plan on the road for the first time right now he s on his way to the minnesota on his way to minnesota to try to rally public support. meanwhile there is a raging debate over how to keep the guns out. hands of people with a history of meant reillness. william la jeunesse live in our west coast newsroom with a look at what can be done to keep dangerous people from getting guns. william. reporter: well, jon there are two problems, one is getting people who show signs of mental instability evaluated before they are danger to selfor others. the second is getting those who are a danger into the background