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so what s it like to go through the existing federal background check when making a gun purchase. cnn s chris cuomo got some firsthand experience doing just that. what can i do for you? i m looking for home protection shotgun. okay. reporter: seemed simple but there s more to it than you might think. every purchase from a licensed dealer requires a federal background check. are you under indictment no. convicted of any flown. no. 27 personal questions including criminal and mental health history all requiring government confirmation. add potential state and city laws thousands across the country and it could feel like an obstacle course. there s a background check for the rifle. then a pistol license. reporter: this pales in comparison the pain the nation felt on december 14th in
learned a lot in the process. chris, mike, what can i do for you? looking for home protection shotgun. okay. i ll bring you down to the shotgun section. seems simple. but there is more to it than you might think. every purchase from a licensed dealer requires a federal background check. are you under indictment? no convicted after i felony? no. 27 personal questions, including criminal and mental health history, all requiring government confirmation, add potential state and city laws, thousands across the country and it could feel like an obstacle course. there is a background check for the rifle and if you have a pistol, there is a pistol license. reporter: this pales to? comparison to the pain the nation felt after newtown, connecticut. the most vulnerable victimized by dangerous weapons in the wrong, sick hands. cnn s latest poll shows people
that as we see this debate go through, which is going to be, carol, probably about two weeks, and you will see votes on amendment after amendment, probably all of them are going to require 60-vote threshold. that s the way it works, at the end of the day, once the senate ready to vote on whatever package they come up with through all of the amendment votes that is likely to require 60 votes, so, you know, the terrible filibuster is sort of used in different ways, but anything that you see will be voted on is very likely to need a 60-vote threshold. when it comes to the particular deal we talked about on background checks, i m told that this could actually be the first amendment that they vote on as soon as tomorrow or early next week. we ll see. dana bash, thank you very much. all of the talk about expanding background checks, what s wrong with the background checks already on the books. chris cuomo explores that side of the story. chris, mike, what can i do for you? i m looking
for prosecutors to file charges against parents who don t secure dangerous weapons in their homes. pamela, we appreciate it. guns, it s the third leading cause of death for kids between the ages of 5 and 14. and of course this begs the question, what about the parents? do they need to do more? later we re going to talk this hour about what parents can do, if they can do anything, to keep their kids safe. and the idea behind background checks on gun purchases, well, this is pretty simple to keep guns out of the hands overpeople who shouldn t have them including mentally ill. most don t know what is involved in the process, how easy is it or difficult to actually get a gun? chris cuomo, he walks us through it. i m looking for home protection shotgun. okay. i m going to bring you down to our shotgun section. seems simple. but there s more to it than you might think. every purchase from a licensed