measures, which would ban so called ghost guns, guns without serial numbers, and would also raise the age at which hit was legal to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18, which is the current age, to 21. that passed in the house, but there is a long way to go for such legislation to pass into law, hence that is very, very unlikely to happen. democrats control the house, this unit is divided equally, 50-50, this unit is divided equally, 50 50, and there are a lot of republicans there who oppose any amendment to this country s gun laws. so, what is likely to happen, as the best gun control advocates can hope for is some sort of move to come out of bipartisan talks involving a small group of senators who met again today for about an hour to hammer out measures which are expected to be more modest
quickly. they knew they had to use the shock of what they saw and still nothing happened. so what that tells you is that even then, in 2013, we saw those kindergarteners being murdered, nothing happened. so why would this be different? and the hope from when you talk to gun control advocates and parents of sandy hook children who died that day, they tell you that they re going to continue to push, this white house continue to bush congress. the hope is if you just get something done, i think chris murphy said it right before i started talking, just get something done that might break the logjam as he put it. let s say you get something on red flag laws. then maybe something else can happen. that creates a different effect. so that is what the families are hoping for. yeah. and that s exactly what the texas state senator said here as well. just something. just move it in that direction. and there s a lot of momentum here in texas specifically in uvalde. the hope is maybe, just maybe
that limit the owning or using of firearms laws that have not stopped madmen from carrying out evil acts on innocent people. reporter: among the 14 acres of guns, gear and ammo exhibited here attendees divided over how elected officials might prevent more tragedies like uvalde. no one can own a weapon unless you re 25 years old 25? that s my thinking. reporter: when you hear some of the stuff that gun control advocates kick around after a shooting like this, like raising the age to make it 21 to buy a long gun or more red flag laws o background checks, is any of that something that you would support? no. i think we really need to look at mental health. garrett joins us now. you re outside the convention right now i m curious. what s the crowd temperature like there? reporter: it s high, tom. there s been no violence here today. only shouting back and forth across the
even gun buyback programs. explain for those watching, why so many elected representatives who took that poll won t do any of those things. look, i think gun control really crystallizes a broader problem that we are experiencing in the u.s., which is the crisis of majority rule. as you note, there is broad public support for many of the stabs gun control advocates want to take. that doesn t mean people think that limiting access to guns is going to completely eliminate the problem of gun violence, but they think these are steps worth taking. two thirds of the country in poland, just this week, as well as last year, so not necessarily influenced by immediate events, supports a ban on assault weapons. roughly two thirds supports a ban on high capacity magazines.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and gun control advocates rallied in Philadelphia to demand that the Republican-controlled legislature pass gun control measures.