that from a firearms standpoint, from a killing standpoint, mass shootings, our numbers are still going up. this comes as top law enforcement officials discuss how they are trying to keep guns away from young people who shouldn t have them. they point to a ena acted in 2022 cracking down on gun traffickers, on people who buy guns for those who are banned from possessing guns. this enables the fbi to conduct background checks for perspective firearms purchasers under the age of 21. those checks have already can want 527 firearms out of the hands of young people who are prohibited from having them. reporter: meanwhile, a new study from a nonprofit gun violence prevention organization says that nearly 300,000 lives could be saved from gun violence in the u.s. over the next decade if every state enacted gun control laws like california s and new york s. what we f found is a direct
have. and that is part of the problem, and one reason why i have offered the legislation that i am going to introduce is, we have a law already on the books that says anybody buying firearms or ammunition cannot do so is barred if they are a fugitive, a felon, somebody seriously mentally ill. somebody under court order for domestic abuse. and yet, while there are background checks for a lot of the firearms purchasers there are none whatsoever for ammunition purchasers. you can walk into walmart and buy a shopping cart full of ammunition, pay for it, walk out, no questions asked. and so what i propose is background checks for people who don t have pistol permits or hunting licenses, when people buy ammunition. plus, when they buy more than a thousand rounds there ought to be a report of it to state and
hearing and what the vice president said you actually heard an echo of what the nra has been saying for years, which is we don t enforce the laws we have. and that is part of the problem, and one reason why i have offered the legislation that i am going to introduce is, we have a law already on the books that says anybody buying firearms or ammunition cannot do so is barred if they are a fugitive, a felon, somebody seriously mentally ill. somebody under court order for domestic abuse. and yet, while there are background checks for a lot of the firearms purchasers there are none whatsoever for ammunition purchasers. you can walk into walmart and buy a shopping cart full of ammunition, pay for it, walk out, no questions asked. and so what i propose is background checks for people who