frequently used in crimes enough to warrant such an extensive ban and say the fraction of semiautomatic rifles, you know, those that do meet the assault weapons definition are used in a much smaller number of crimes relative to other types of firearms that are not subject to this very extensive assault weapons ban and then finally, the main argument they re making here is that they believe that the state, particularly when it comes to this limit on the number of bullets can you have in a magazine that basically they are criminalizing law-abiding citizens who have used laws that had been, you know, or methods rather that have been lawful up until this point basically criminalizing commonly used and traditionally lawful methods. as you had mentioned, there are members of law enforcement here in illinois who are saying point blank they won t enforce the law to which governor press kerr says there s nothing yet to enforce yet. it s a lot of political
anderson, they ll kind of take the temperature of the gop. remember, as we ve talked about many, many times, with the evenly divided senate, it s going to come down to what ten republicans will agree to. that is what is going to be able to pass and that s the only way they re going to get anything through the senate filibuster. is raising the age to 21 for semiautomatic rifles, which is something the president called for, also talked about a ban on assault weapons, but raising the age to 21 would be a step short of that. is that on the table? reporter: it doesn t appear to be on the table. my colleague manu raju caught up with senator joe manchin, of course, a conservative dm from west virginia, i want everyone to listen to what he had to say about it earlier. here, you want to look at two things that could have prevented this. an age requirement would have prevented an 18-year-old, and basically, a red flag law that s basically intended to try to help a person get some mental he
semiautomatic rifles used in many mass shootings and raising the age to 21 to purchase those weapons even though the killer in uvalde, texas, was only 18 years old and wielded an ar-15 style weapon. why not raise the age to 21 for people buying semiautomatic rifles? we re talking about a lot of things, and what we re talking about most are background checks, juvenile records, the areas where we can get consensus. why don t you have agreementd greement on that. we have a lot of people in the discussion. we have to get 60 votes, hopefully we can get 5. why do people even need ar-15s? the challenge you have on that is there s 20 million of them in the country already. they are a sporting rifle. and it s something that a lot of people, for purposes of going out, target shooting. in my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and other