The overall picture suggests that a marketing change fuelled an increased demand for more lethal weapons, therefore leading a change in culture that viewed guns as necessary tools for self-defence.
common denominator in so many of these cases, guns. and now the white house is considering new executive actions. this year alone, there have been at least 198 mass shootings in the u.s. but biden acknowledged his options are limited. i ve got to convince the congress we should go back to what i passed years ago. i mean, who how are you going to do that? well, i m going to try. what are your thoughts about next steps in congress, do you think there is an opportunity or prospect for more movement there? the answer, it is going to be very difficult. but i won t give up trying. here is the backdrop. new federal stats show police recovered more than 19,000 homemade untraceable firearms, so-called ghost guns, last year. and that is a stunning ten fold increase from 2016. also, in the past two decades, gun manufacturing has surged. the white house will also ramp up its push for the senate to confirm the president s pick to head the atf.
getting flown to other towns and affecting the entire country. jonathan, thank you for coming on this morning to shed light on this, we appreciated. thank you. todd: from the border to our streets, president biden announcing the measures aimed to crack down on ghost guns pure the white house will now require similar numbers and gun parts as well as background checks on individuals to purchase gun kids. and biden took the opportunity to advocate for more gun control. watch. we need to repeal gun manufacturing to hold him accountable for false advertisement for the many things i do. todd: but a new york post op-ed by an advocate in new york saying in part well the so-called leaders waste time with eric on is transmittable. children are dying, people are dying and lives are being destroyed. these criminals with no regard
berlin thanks for joining us the largest gathering of america s banking elites since the financial crisis the heads of the most powerful banks in the united states appeared before congress as the house financial services committee they faced off against lawmakers in a sweeping hearing covering everything from potentially suspicious activity from russian bank accounts there to financing controversial industries like gun manufacturing the event was supposed to revolve around the stability of the banking system ten years after the financial crisis but it turned into a thematic free for all instead of manufacturers. for more let s cross over to score to our financial correspondent yan s a welcome now if this hearing didn t actually end up to focusing on the systemic risks what was the point of having this hearing at this juncture than ten years after the crisis. it s a big show mostly for congress men and women how that usually works as congressmen