reporter: next the crew went north to kings port, tennessee, for a saturday afternoon local gun show held in a hotel convention center. it was a smith & wesson mp 45 caliber semiautomatic that first caught our producer s eye. asking price? $625. it s a nice one. it s not brand spanking new, but cash and carry, or do i have to fill out any cash and carry. but it s early, and the team opts to keep looking. ten to 20 minutes later they circle back to the same table, negotiating for the same gun. 600? this one? yes, box it up zoosh what? box it up. it s a deal. no background check. it s not needed for a private sale. but the seller is legally required to check id like a driver s license to make sure the buyer is not from out of
country to erode. is there anything logically, rationally to persuade people maybe this isn t the best approach? well, i do. these people write me and i write them back. i say look, the country s almost 250 years old. and nothing s happened like that. even remotely like that. that happens in some third world countries where they have revolutions, but we ve had all these presidential elections and not once has the incumbent president had to be forced out by gun point. where that does happen in other countries. the chances of that happening here is very low. our economy has gone through major cataclysms and still people don t have to be using gold and fend off people with their guns. economy is not going to collapse. the political system s going to go on. we re going to be okay. you don t have to do that. don t waste your money on bomb shelter type things. they re just awful to look at and they re expensive and buried in the ground in idaho? come on, please. waste of money.