amendment boat. in a statement calling bringing their long guns down right weird and not neighborly. but another part of that statement is a direct response to our story on the smart gun. the personalized hand gun fires only if the shooter is wearing a password protected watch. the nra has been vehemently opposed to it. the basis for their opposition has been a new jersey law which mandates within three years of a smartphone going on the market, no other type of hand gun can be sold or offered for sale by a licensed firearms in new jersey. we talked with the senator who authored that bill who offered a truce to the nra nearly a month ago. if in fact they would get out of the way of preventing the research, development, manufacture, distribution, and
chicago but under tight restrictions. in january they ruled the city s ban on guns was unconstitutional. the new proposal puts a 24-hour weight limit on rifles and shot guns and only allows dealers to sell one hand gun per month per buyer. what was supposed to be their dream house. but four years later the beach family taxed to the max. they are being forced to sell their extreme make-over home at a steep discount because the taxes and insurance fees they are too high. they won the make-over in 2010 when the hurricane forced them to live in a trailer. they are baying 12,1500 a month in fees. other houses had similar
with the army, that he was only given 24 hours to grief for her in puerto rico. the base commander could not address that particular issue but did say yesterday there is very strong evidence that lopez s unstable psychiatric condition was the fundamental underlying cause for his rampage. and the general trigger event was likely that confrontation here on post wednesday afternoon. it was mentioned yesterday that there may have been a verbal altercation with another soldier or soldiers. there is a strong possibility that that in fact immediately preceded the shooting. reporter: another key question here, jon, if this was not premeditated why was he carrying a hand gun in the first place. he was not authorized to have it on post and why did he buy it and bring it with him to fort hood? jon: some of the answers i suppose could be on social media. he was active on social media, right? reporter: yeah he was. he posted some pretty chilling
they couldn t defend themselves because they were not allowed to carry weapons. i think the policy makers, congress we need to revisit this procedure, this policy to see if we should arm them so we could better protect themselves. these problems of protection on texas fort hood base occurring now and in the past. how do we prevent this from happening again? former senior military intelligence officer and former member of the fbi task fore steve rogers joins us with his look at this. they are not allowed to carry a concealed hand gun in if the boundaries of fort hood. military bases are targets. we are at war against
soldier came on the post with a loaded gun and open fire on his fellow soldiers, killing three of them and wounding 16 others and then committing suicide. now, authorities say they don t believe this was an act of terrorism but say they haven t ruled out anything. part of the investigation involves the gun itself. it was a 45 caliber imagine numb hand gun bought here locally at the gun store in texas, the same store major nidal hasan bought his weapon and laser pointers back in 2009, just before he committed the criminal act of murdering 13 soldiers here at ft. hood back in 2009. now, there was nothing illegal about the gun sales to either of men. they both passed the background checks available at the time but the gun store owner confirms to nbc news this morning that the fbi has confiscated the purchase records of the gun used by lopez. thank you very much.