but also at this point like the background check is like, that s just what you do. it s what we do. we keep paper records, the atf for 20 years. we cooperate with federal, state and local regulations. we do what is right by our conscience. if we had somebody that may even pass a background check and we still think this just doesn t feel right, we re probably going to turn them away. we had an incident awhile back that one of our people here just eluded to a minute ago, we had a young fellow that came in and had bandage on his head just beaten up and wanted to buy a gun and we said no, sorry. come back in three or four days when you cooled off and maybe we ll talk to you. you don t you have to be a psychologist and a good judge of people to actually be behind these counters. you just don t sell somebody something. you know, what is your need? are you going to use it for? why do you want it? those are the questions i ask on a daily basis.
regulation. and you fold it into your point of sale. right. it s burdensome on one level, but also at this point like the background check is like, that s just what you do. it s what we do. we keep paper records, the atf for 20 years. we co-operate with federal, stae and local regulations. we do what is right by our conscience. if we had somebody that may even pass a background check and we still think this just doesn t feel right, we re probably going to turn them away. we had an incident awhile back that one of our people here just eluded to a minute ago, we had a young fellow that came in and had bandage on his head just beaten up and wanted to buy a gun and we said no, sorry. come back in three or four days when you cooled off and maybe we ll talk to you. you don t you have to be a psychologist and a good judge of people to actually be behind these counters. you just don t sell somebody
police confirm they found a cache of weapons in the hotel room where they located the gunman. you might think it s easy to trace those weapons, there s a data base you type in the number and it pops up, that does not exist in this country. the gun lobby stopped that from happening. in order to find out the history of any given weapon, you have to go to a warehouse in west virginia that is essentially run by one man at the atf and he has to sort through thousands and thousands and thousands of boxes of paper records where the guns are registered. that can usually take weeks, sometimes months. in cases like this, it can be expedited but it is a long and grueling process. tom costello is in our dc bureau. i know they re going to try to figure out where these guns were
there are companies that sell you modification kits to make sure semiautomatic weapon fire as if it were an automatic weapon. tom thanks so much. if you re curious about the paper records in west virginia, the paper records on guns, look at a gq article from a few years back, charlie houser runs this warehouse down there in wfprima facie west virginia he has it stored in his head where those records would be stored there. you can only imagine what will be lost if he retires. we re looking at the aftermath of the deadliest shooting in american history. and it s the deadliest attacks on u.s. soil since september 11,
risk is you entire up boxes nope. when you get the okay place my prior payment i will send more. i won t tighten my next note. in the future, i will destroy all electronic records after you confirm receipt. i also already destroyed the paper records. i cannot keep these around, too dangerous. he is worked for many u.s. agencies and is fluent in mandarin. he lost his top-secret clearance in 2012 after leaving the government but recently has been seeking new government employment. bill: thank you. shannon: i wildfire in utah forcing hundreds of people to inaccurate in doubling in size overnight threatening 400 additional homes. they say they are doing everything they can to try and keep up. they arriving at all times of the day and we are just going from anywhere we can, really unprecedented extreme fire that we have seen out here.