the devil is in the details on this one. this has been the problem between schumer and coburn, what to do with a sale record. i think gun control advocates have a legitimate point, you have a toothless federal trafficking statute if you don t have a record of sale. how do you go about prosecuting a straw seller if you can t prove that a sale was even made? that s been a sticking point. you would have to be in the room. at the same time coburn and others argue why would you need a sale for a family-to-family transaction. they re trying to negotiate around that. i m hoping my reporting can bear out what they finalized with respect to that. that is the key sticking point. and we re talking, sam, about a vote right up to the two-week easter vacation, more than two weeks from now, sometimes in april? yeah, i think that is the plan right now. obviously things can change, depending on negotiations. keep in mind tom coburn want the only republican in the game here. we have a number of repu
the government to confiscation of guns. that s never happened, it s never going to happen, but that s where republicans have stood. i would like to know what sill thinkia, i think there was a time we confiscated all the cars in this country because we registered them? machine gun ownership has been a matter of very prohibitive restricted ownership for decades now. you may own a machine gun, but you have to have a federal license. it has to be registered, but those guns have not been confiscated itches those collectors still have their machine guns at home, i hope locked up safely. that s from the days of machine gun cully back in the fights in chicago. sam, can you report something on the actual language of this background check provision? i still need to get my sources, but cynthia is right,
people like harry reid give the gun lobby far too much credit. sam, what s your reaction to that? they say the same thing, that the nra has trumped that. and the only thing i would add to that is this. we ve seen a tlot of recent pollings, specifically background checks, and it s universally popular. i don t see any other issue polling at 90% popularity. if you read specific issues it might dip. this is a noncontroversial bill. it would be surprising to me if democrats felt concerned or nervous about voting for it and i think harry reid recognized that and that s why he s going forward with this in the baseline bill. according to the washington
wounded. had he only had one clip that fell out of his hands, how many more people would have been alive? sam, here s the thing. we have the horror recently where we all have a pretty good picture in our mind and looking at first graders and firing away with a semiautomatic and then reloading it with magazines. so he had all of the equipment we ve been talking about here, the very equipment of a semiautomatic, the kind of assault rifle that we re talking about, he had magazines which were 30 rounds. he was using the very thing that we re trying to get out of public circulation. isn t it a problem with the senate can t deal with something, when somebody has described the bill we need through horror and they won t do it? yes, i think it s a huge problem. obviously the 60-vote threshold complicates things. it can make the case that, you know, if you spend more time ramping up pressure on individual senators, maybe they would be more inclined to do this. but gun politics is incredibly
it, of course. sam tine and michael crowley. although i think hagel is a notch to my left actually. up next, rush limbaugh has a crazy theory about why lib rools love the movie lincoln. what else would be crazy from this guy? it s got to do with the civil war and some unfinished business. thank you, michael crowley. this is hardball, the place for politics. here s what happened. i was talking to my best friend. i told her i wasn t feeling like myself. i had pain in my pelvic area. and bleeding that wasn t normal for me. she said i had to go to the doctor.