The Biden Admin's new firearm rule could eliminate the so-called gun show loophole. The Biden Administration now wants to eliminate the so-called "gun show loophole.
as out of step with the state on gun rights. criticism that is likely to be levied against you, too. texas has a lot of enthusiastic gun owners. most households own a firearm. how do you convince texans that there should be stricter gun laws? yeah, i own quite a few myself. i don t own an ar-15. i don t need one. i am a believer in the second amendment. what we are asking for is to raise the age limit, protective orders. if you see something and say something, a personal is mentally ill and shouldn t have access to guns we should be able to take those away. closing the gun show loophole. the last several polls, 66% of republican voters said those were good ideas. so i think that the person that s out of touch is ted cruz and others like him that refuse to stand up to the nra, to just do the basics to safeguard our children. we have got a lot of work to do in this state. but we have to start with talking about the real problems that are facing us. yeah, and i am not exactly
this applies to license retailers, private transactions and condos. a lot of democrats were excited at the prospect of closing what you hear often at the gun show loophole. that s the first one that passed, and then there was a second bill that passed which is on red flag laws. these are laws that a lot of folks in the gun control community have been talking about for a while. they are known as extreme risk protection orders. if this was the beaten acted, family members or loved ones of the people who were close to them, they can call law enforcement they can ask a judge to hold and hearing to disarm someone, they think that they re in a moment of crisis. we ve seen a lot of different states enacted and start to bring up those laws, all over the country. those two laws that we are talking about this week, again, something that would not have been thought to be possible in pennsylvania five, ten years ago. and did they have bipartisan
i don t know. i know there are feel-good things we can do. i know we do need red flag laws. we have a very good red flag law here in florida. yep. but the gun show loophole, you know, i don t know if being kicked out of the military for a mental issue disqualify him from legally purchasing firearms. certainly disqualify him under the gun show loophole. and these guys fly below the radar. this guy never had an arrest before, so, i don t know. i just don t know how we can stop evil like this. you mentioned the gun show loophole. just so people understand essentially if you buy a weapon from a private owner, not a gun store or something, you don t have to go through a background check. that s the case here as many of these rifles, including the ar-15 were legally purchased, many of them through private sellers and didn t have a background check. you mentioned the red flag law. that s so important because in your state, this was under a republican governor at the time who we have o