been victims of gun violence, those who are concerned about the mental health issues that haven t been addressed, so my hope is the recommendations that will come from the task force will be ones that can be embraced by everyone. now, there are those of us who want to go beyond what the recommendations will certainly be from the task force. i think that we need a national gun registry. the truth is that we only have machine guns that are registered in this country, and there s 400,000 of them. we also need to give the atf, the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, authority to do what they used to do in terms of tracking criminal data and to be able to hold on to information about those who purchase guns for more than 24 hours. right now in this country what they call a straw purchaser, someone who has a clean record, can go into any gun dealer, buy as many guns as they want, then take those guns and sell them to
leave. and and that is standard procedure when police are involved in a shooting. when asked about the incident at a news conference, the county prosecutor said it appears that all the officers acted in self-defense and were justified in returning fire. harris? harris: david lee miller in our newsroom tonight. thank you very much. new information now on an ambush that put firefighters in a deadly trap. police in upstate new york have arrested a woman in connection with that crime. investigators saying an ex-con named william spangler at the time set a fire on christmas eve. and when first responders got there, he started shooting at them. he killed two of them. wounded three other people before committing suicide. now, investigators are charging one of spangler s former neighbors with buying two guns for him. providing your own name when buying a firearm instead of the true owner s name is sometimes referred as acting as a straw purchaser. and that is exactly what today s complaint
police. the local police would have the first and primary responsibility for trying to apprehend and to investigate this. because it involved a firearm, the federal authorities usually the department of i call it tobacco and firearms. right. they would be brought in to look at the gun and trace how it was obtained, etcetera. now, i think here the gun was obtained legally. almost 21 years ago. right. in florida. he didn t have a permit to carry in new york but a permit to carry doesn t do much good once the gun has been used. but that s the way the response would be. and we traced these crime guns and again this fellow was not your typical gun criminal. your typical gun criminal is someone with a prior record who can t get a gun, who has to get a gun through an illegal source or through a gun show. the gun show loop hole. or has to get it by buying it on the street from a straw
they want the discounts. they don t believe, necessarily. one law that limits hand guns purchases to one a month which means your law-abiding citizens can buy 12 a year, who in god s name would need more than 12 hand guns a year? but it stops that straw purchaser who walks into every gun store in cleveland and in pittsburgh and in erie and buys 15 semi-automatic smith and wesson pistols. everyone knows what he s going to do with them. he s going to sell them to felons and juveniles who can t buy guns lawfully, he will make 200% profit. why not stop him? why not stop him? governor, i want to bring in dan gross, president of the brady campaign, who is still with us. dan, there are several pieces of gun control legislation that have been introduced but not addressed in congress. among them, a ban on high capacity ammunition magazines that the governor mentioned, requiring background checks on all gun sales, requiring background checks on all gun sales at gun shows, a ban on gun
somebody the cartels tap who can go and buy weapons legally. inรง arizona it might be an 18-year-old kid who is not old enough to buy beer but if he or she has no criminal record they can go into a gun dealership buy 50 ak-47s, pay in cash and face no waiting period or a need for extra permits. there are a lot of kids in arizona who want to make a few extra bucks and this is what they do. the cartels find them. you buy the guns and give them to the cartels. or intermediaries who give them to the cartels. one of the folks they investigated was on food stamps but made $300,000 in purchases of weapons. correct. the initial problem they face was what a? why didn t they just den when the 18-year-old kid walks out of