but he says he wants to have expanded background check. what does he want to know? the situation now is that background checks only take place when you buy a gun from a licensed firearms dealer. but if you buy a gun from a hobby seller, like a gun show, no background check is required under federal law. so he s said he wants to take a look at doing a better job identifying who should be defined as being in the business of selling firearms. if you re in the business, we should be doing background checks. right now, that s not the case. so he s just talking about using executive action to look better at that question and figure out if there s a way to fill in that gap where background checks are not happening. wouldn t you agree that the real issue is the mental health of the shooter? i mean, we ve seen it with holmes, and with lanza. they re all nutjobs. no background check is going to tell you who is someone that s
he wants to have expanded background checks. background checks only take place when you buy a gun from a licensed firearms dealer. no background check is required under federal law. he said he wants to take a look at doing a better job of identifying who should be defined as being in the business of selling firearms. if you are in the business we should be doing background checks when you sell a gun. right now that s not the case. he is just talking about using executive action to look better at that question and figure out if there s a way to fill in that gap where background checks are not happening. wouldn t you agree that the real issue is the mental health of the shooter? i mean we have seen it with homes and we have seen it with lands and we have seen it. they are all nut jobs. no background check is going to tell you who is someone who has a mental illness who has been in
congress. i m glad you agree with that. but he says he wants to have expanded background check. what does he want to know? the situation now is that background checks only take place when you buy a gun from a licensed firearms dealer. but if you buy a gun from a hobby seller like a gun show no background check is required under federal law. so he s said he wants to take a look at doing a better job identifying who should be defined as being in the business of selling firearms. if you re in the business we should be doing background checks. right now, that s not the case. so he s just talking about using executive action to look better at that question and figure out if there s a way to fill in that gap where background checks are not happening. wouldn t you agree that the real issue is the mental health of the shooter? i mean we ve seen it with holmes and with lanza. they re all nutjobs. no background check is going to
i m glad you agree with that. but he says he wants to have expanded background check. what does he want to know? the situation now is that background checks only take place when you buy a gun from a licensed firearms dealer. but if you buy a gun from a hobby seller, like a gun show, no background check is required under federal law. so he s said he wants to take a look at doing a better job identifying who should be defined as being in the business of selling firearms. if you re in the business, we should be doing background checks. right now, that s not the case. so he s just talking about using executive action to look better at that question and figure out if there s a way to fill in that gap where background checks are not happening. wouldn t you agree that the real issue is the mental health of the shooter? i mean, we ve seen it with holmes, and with lanza. they re all nutjobs. no background check is going to
but he says he wants to have expanded background check. what does he want to know? the situation now is that background checks only take place when you buy a gun from a licensed firearms dealer. but if you buy a gun from a hobby seller, like a gun show, no background check is required under federal law. so he s said he wants to take a look at doing a better job identifying who should be defined as being in the business of selling firearms. if you re in the business, we should be doing background checks. right now, that s not the case. so he s just talking about using executive action to look better at that question and figure out if there s a way to fill in that gap where background checks are not happening. wouldn t you agree that the real issue is the mental health of the shooter? i mean, we ve seen it with holmes, and with lanza. they re all nutjobs. no background check is going to