promise from president trump on taking action on guns, but what action remains unclear and how much the president is willing to fight for a particular decision. he hopes the congress will do something, back to the measure that the nra opposes, raising the age to purchase se semiautomatic weapons, from 18 to 21 and supports training and arming some teachers, even giving them bonuses for doing so while praising leaders of the nra as great american patriots today. left undefined as of now are pledges to end sales of bump stocks that turn semiautomatic weapons into automatic weapons and desire to make background checks strong, in his words. how far the president is willing to go on those two items could be significant. the nra, for instance, opposes extending background checks to private gun sales at gun shows, and experts say the only real
they want the discounts. they don t believe, necessarily. one law that limits hand guns purchases to one a month which means your law-abiding citizens can buy 12 a year, who in god s name would need more than 12 hand guns a year? but it stops that straw purchaser who walks into every gun store in cleveland and in pittsburgh and in erie and buys 15 semi-automatic smith and wesson pistols. everyone knows what he s going to do with them. he s going to sell them to felons and juveniles who can t buy guns lawfully, he will make 200% profit. why not stop him? why not stop him? governor, i want to bring in dan gross, president of the brady campaign, who is still with us. dan, there are several pieces of gun control legislation that have been introduced but not addressed in congress. among them, a ban on high capacity ammunition magazines that the governor mentioned, requiring background checks on all gun sales, requiring background checks on all gun sales at gun shows, a ban on gun