Role of firearms have played over the course of American History. Welcome to the nra National Firearms museum. Im jim supica, the museum director, we will take a look at the history of americans and their firearms. We will start with the earliest precolonial days and go up through current times. We will look at the role firearms have played in terms of the settlement and expansion of america. The role firearms have played in military and sporting and personal shooting rolls. We will see the guns of champions, the guns of president s and heroes and we will see some great pieces of art. Firearms engraving on a steel canvas. The National Firearms museum is at nra headquarters in fairfax virginia. The museum has existed itself for nearly 80 years and we have been in this location for about 15. We are custodians of about 7000 firearms that have been donated to us or lent to us over the past 75 years. We have about 3000 on display here and about 1000 more at the nra National Sporting arms mu
But traffic is backed up as you drive from university avenue. This will take a little while to unwind. The other rest of the commute here. You can get rid of the banner so you can see. The rest of the commute looks all right. Its early. Theres not a lot of people coming to the bay bridge. Interstate 880, that traffic is moving along nicely. As we look at the east bay except for what i just told you in berkeley we have a nice looking commute all the way down into the south bay. The number of bay area coronavirus cases keeps going up. Santa clara county now reports 66 confirmed cases. Thats up 18 from yesterday. Santa clara county has the most in california. San francisco reported four more cases. Alameda county also reports four more cases and statewide four people have died. More Bay Area School districts are cancelling classes trying to protect students and staff from the coronavirus. The west Contra Costa County School District will close for three weeks beginning monday. Berkeley al
[background noise] [gavel] committeese judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on protecting america from assault weapons. I will now recognize myself with an Opening Statement. Assault weapons have been repeatedly used of weapons of deadly violence on our citizens. In just the last two years, las vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, poway, midland and odessa have seen Mass Shootings at the hands of a gunman with assault weapons. Last month we added el paso and dayton to the list of communities shattered by Mass Violence perpetrated by a gunman old with armed with assault weapons. Todays hearing is about whether america will tolerate weapons of war in our streets and in our neighborhood. Simply put civilian assault , weapons are just semi automatic versions of military weapons. Have passed bans on assault weapons, these have been proven too easy to evade. This is one reason i support a
[background noise] [gavel] committeese judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on protecting america from assault weapons. I will now recognize myself with an Opening Statement. Assault weapons have been repeatedly used of weapons of deadly violence on our citizens. In just the last two years, las vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, poway, midland and odessa have seen Mass Shootings at the hands of a gunman with assault weapons. Last month we added el paso and dayton to the list of communities shattered by Mass Violence perpetrated by a gunman old with armed with assault weapons. Todays hearing is about whether america will tolerate weapons of war in our streets and in our neighborhood. Simply put civilian assault , weapons are just semi automatic versions of military weapons. Have passed bans on assault weapons, these have been proven too easy to evade. This is one reason i support a
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