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we just need more people to be engaged. you and i have been on this show way too often after these moments of tragedy. thank you for joining me. i want to start with an old quote. i would like you to help explain to the viewers where the gun rights movement moved? in 1999, wayne la pierre said this in front of the congress. we think it s reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. no loopholes for anyone anywhere. something has changed from then to now where reasonable regulations were at least openly debated by gun rights officials and now you can t do it now without looking like you re the second amendment. what happened? actually the nra i could argue is the more moderate gun
weapons of choice for criminals, for terrorists, for domestic abusers because they are unserialized. they have no number on which to trace them back to the seller, and therefore, the owner. why this action that we re taking today is so important is that it will require that there be serial numbers on these so-called kits, homemade kits that people can purchase online with the parts and the directions to make a ghost gun at home in under 30 minutes. these are very, very dangerous weapons, and they are increasingly showing up on our streets as the weapon of choice for criminals of all varieties. so, susan, i m confused. why would any gun group, why would anybody want guns to proliferate across the united states of america, where there are no serial numbers, where people can go through tsa checkpoints and take guns on planes and hijack planes?
amy coney barrett asked questions along those lines. brett kavanaugh asked what i think is a very important questions to conservatives and there s an amicus brief from a gun group concerned about this issue, is, okay, texas says anyone in the country can sue an abortion provider. what if new york or california or some liberal state passes a law that says anyone in the whole country can sue a gun manufacturer or a gun dealer for a crime that was committed in new york? is that okay with you, texas? and the lawyer for texas said, yeah, that would be okay. i think conservatives may be very concerned about that. c brett kavanaugh seemed concerned