hearing comes a month after the us air force admitted a clerical error that allowed a former airman who shot 26 people at a church in sutherland springs, texas, to buy a gun despite a domestic violence conviction in 2012. the senate judiciary committee hearing runs a little over three hours. . [inaudible conversations] good morning everybody. thank you for attending today s hearing. we gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil man in las vegas and sutherland springs. those two places get all the attention but there is lesser number of people dying in other places as well. today, with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. and we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. before october 1, 2017, few americans know what a bump stock was. then, a shooter used bump stock to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a country music concert. the shooting lasted o
provider. next, testimony from officials with the atf and the air force on proposed firearm regulations. and updating the criminal background check system. the measure proposes banning bump stocks and similar devices that enable guns to fire as fast as an automatic weapon. senator dianne feinstein is the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee. she introduced the legislatio and thank you for attending today s hearing. we gather here today in the wake of violent acts of an evil man in las vegas and sutherland springs and those two places get all the attention, but there s lesser numbers of people who have died other places as well. today with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. and we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. before october 1st, 2017, few americans knew what a bump stock was. then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1,100 rounds into a crow
good morning everybody. and thank you for attending today s hearing. we gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil men in las vegas and southern springs, and those two places get all the attention, but there is lesser number of people have died other places as well. today, with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. and we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. before october 1st, 2017, few americans new whatknew what a b stock was. then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a country music concert. the shooting lasted only ten minutes. the bump stocks enabled this person to fire oammunition as i he had used an automatic weapon. 58 people died. 500 wounded. it was the deadliest mass shooting in our history. our laws prohibit the manufacturer of machine guns, for decades and decades that s been the case, and greatly restrict
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murder nine people. f.b.i. agents met with the victim s families today to explain what happened, and we asked kris van cleave to explain it to us. reporter: f.b.i. director james comey called the mistake heartbreaking and said we are all sick this has happened. we wish we could turn back time. on april 11th, dylann roof went into this south carolina gun store to purchase a glock handgun. the transaction triggered an automatic federal battleground check. an f.b.i. examiner pulled roof s arrest shed and saw an earlier arrest, but she did not see this incident report where roof admitted having the drugs. that confession should have disqualified him from buying a weapon. the examiner never got the report because she couldn t track down the proper police department, so she marked roof s case as pending and proved on to other cases. under the law, if a background check remains unresolved after three day, the sale can proceed and that s exactly what happened. roof completed his