angeles. hi, william. reporter: a cornerstone of that system to stop the bad guys from getting guns starts with this form that you fill out when you want to buy a gun. are you mentally ill, do you use marijuana or any depressant? if you lie, there s a huge fbi database that s supposed to stop that sale, but even the federal government admits it s full of holes and few lie years are ever punished. it is the first line of defense against gun crime, the background check. this is to make sure that you don t have anything prohibiting in your past that would keep you from owning a firearm. reporter: felons, fugitives, domestic abusives, drug users, illegal aliens, among others, cannot buy a gun. they re going to take ten days and put you through a background check. reporter: currently, all states require fbi background checks on weapons sold at gun stores against a criminal database. some states include gun show sales for most weapons, but a majority do not, a loophole some
a gun, and still carry there. shouldn t republicans just drop that provision and put out the stuff that they know can pass? they should, politically. because otherwise they risk looking cynical here. because this fix nix bill which goes to the background check thing has widespread report among republicans and democrats. it would sail through the house and sail through the senate and by attaching this other provision, which democrats in the senate are likely to kill, you put at risk the background check bill. the other way they can do it is put both of them on the floor separately, send them to the senate and let the senate democrats take responsibility for killing what is an interesting piece of legislation and probably would help some with gun crime too. we ll be talking about this for a while. still ahead, amid the partisan divide over gun control, are there some solutions for curtailing gun violence that both sides can agree on? ing. .and help you feel more strength and energy
desire to own a gun. but apart from the constitutional issues, which i think are very strong, i think there s just a practical issue. there s 300 million guns i believe out in america and there s eight and-a-half million boys in high school and we re going to trust the federal government to sift through all this, identify the people or the weapons that are going to be used in a mass shooting? i think before we could have a or do something that means something, we need to have a rational debate. if you look at what happened on cnn the other night, the two minute hate from marco rubio and the woman from the nra, this is not the path to a sane solution. you re not arguing a council of despair, are you, where you say anything we do want make a difference? i saw i think it was geraldo rivera, so you re for doing nothing? i think it s reasonable to demand that you have evidence
of january. and the overwhelming number of guns used in the commission of these crimes are illegally obtained. what we need to do in this country, paul, is not h declarea war on certain types of guns and accessories. we need to declare a war on illegal guns, guns that are stolen, guns that are stolen and sold or smuggled and sold, guns from straw purchases, which is where someone who is allowed legally to buy a gun, does so and turns the gun over to someone else, usually at a huge profit, who cannot buy a gun. if we focus paul: you want to focus on that. it s a fair point and an interesting one. if the staw chute the stat stats right now, why aren t we enforcing them now? because they re not high