Good morning, everybody. Thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil man in las vegas and southern springs and those two places get all the attention, but theres 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. Then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1100 rounds into. A crowd of those attending a Country Music concert. The bump stocks enabled this person to fire ammunition as fast as if he had used an aut automatic weapon. 58 people died. Our laws prohibit the manufacture machine guns for decades and decades that has been the case. During the Obama Administration they determined that bump stocks are legal. A number of member of congress recently rote the atf asked it to revision the decision. Two days ago the atf announced
Also on the calendar, this years state of the Union Address from President Trump before a joint session of congress. As always, you can watch the house live on cspan and see the senate on our companion network cspan 2. Next testimony from officials with the atf and the air force on proposed firearm regulations. And updating the criminal background check system. The measure proposed banning bump stock and similar devices. Senator Dianne Feinstein is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary committee. She introduced the legislation. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by an evil man in las vegas and southern springs and those two places get all the attention, but theres 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 t
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