stalled, not the house but the senate, on a host of gun control measures. what more can you do given the realities of what s going on in washington? we need to continue to apply pressure on the senate to pass hr-8 and senate republicans holding up this piece of legislation, the house passed it over a year ago and it s been sitting in the senate not moving for over a year. this bill, hr-8, would dramatically help with gun trafficking. it would close loopholes in terms of online gun sales, in terms of gun shows. it would close loopholes and it would stop and close the iron pipeline. guns are coming into new york traveling from all over the country and are contributing to the crime increases we re seeing in our cities, so we have to pass hr-8. republicans need to move on this bill and them should be held accountable if we don t pass that piece of legislation. which is about broad
legislation. st however, this is from our neighbors. can you speak to this in your professional capacity and also as a father. you tweeted back in march i think it was about your kmchild that will be 2 in september. you said we must stop. this see why gun control helps. we cannot do it alone. i want to be in a country where my daughter with grow up safely. how long has it been since we ve had federal gun legislation and do you have some democrats now that are opposed to hr 8 and 1446. it doesn t seem like there is a lot of movement there. can you say with confidence that your daughter will grow up in a safer america? unfortunately i can t. we ve had meaningful gun legislation in the united states. to hear the words of the father who lost his daughter on the lead in to this interview, it is
background checks and can do it instantaneously checking with the fbi. the problem is at the time that passed federally licensed firearms dealers were not on the internet because it didn t exist and gun shows weren t big business. all this law says, hr-8, the bill that s pending, is the same rules should apply to people selling guns on the internet and people at gun shows. it s that simple. i m incredulous at the idea that we can t get 60 people in the senate to support that measure. that s where it s pending. but do you know what, if we can t it means the filibuster must end and if it just takes 50 votes to pass this bill, then that s what it takes to save lives. we lose 100 people a day just like we did yesterday with nine innocent people going to work in san jose. it must stop. yamiche, in addition to hr-8
i know it feels hard, it s terrible to see the loss every time it happens and i have to tell you it never gets easier. it s heartbreaking to see and hear the impact of gun violence in america today which is at an epidemic level and is preventable. the house of representatives has passed hr-8, it s pending in the senate and ultimately it takes 60 votes because of the filibuster to pass gun violence prevention reform. just like anything else on president biden s agenda. i think the question is whether we have enough support for common sense measures. and let me just lay out, if you will, for ten seconds, 20 seconds about what this is. the brady law was passed about 27 years ago. what that did was operationalize the gun control act of 1968 and said that gun dealers have to do
there is new legislation that s been introduced i want to read some nbc reporting to you and get your reaction because we have senator john cornyn and chris murphy, they want to clarify who is required to register as a federal firearms licensee and that s conduct fbi checks on a buyer before selling a gun. the senators say an ambiguity in the law has enabled unlicensed sellers to transfer weapons to dangerous people who skirt the background check system. this is something that s small and targeted and chris murphy, you have somebody from connecticut who represents the nu town families and cornyn you have somebody from texas who represents one of the most permissive states when it comes to gun ownership. on this specific bill based on your reporting do you think this is the kind of thing that can get 60 votes in the senate? small and targeted means that maybe it would have a better chance than the gun reform that the president and democrats have been pushing for for a long time, but e