that s rejected. the next bid at 1050 prompts a phone call. let me see what he says. one of them is his and one of them is mine. reporter: in fact, in all of the deals, the team paid less than the asking price. all right. we can do $1050. reporter: the producer boxes the guns in their carrying cases and heads for the door. again, no names. no i.d., no paperwork. not even a receipt. total time of the gun show, 45 minutes. $1650 spent. three semiautomatic handguns purchased. incidentally, because there s no paper trail, none of these weapons can ever be traced to the buyer. later, the same day in greenville, south carolina. and it s the biggest show of the five our team attended. after wandering the floor, our producer spots this gentleman carrying a semiautomatic rifle on his shoulder. asking price, $1200. the strap doesn t come with it.
have to do a background check and that gun owner keeps that record. and that s the only person. it s against the law to have a registry or anyone to use that to try to register. we ve doubled down on that and even made it a felony with a 15-year jail sentence if anybody, any government agency would try to form a registry off of that. we did that and basically we go to the gun show. if you go to a gun show today and you go to a dealer, a licensed dealer, they do the background check at a gun show. you might go over to the next state, well nothing is done. we re treating everybody the same. let s talk about the politics of this. will you be able to have 60 votes? i sure hope so. we re working awful hard. there are so many good people and i understand. because of all the untruths out there and people doing it to commercialize it, just put the facts out. as of right now no. we got 68 votes today. to have a debate. 68 votes, right. people can argue i voted just to have the debat
the deals, the team paid less than the asking price. all right. we can do $1050. reporter: the producer boxes the guns in their carrying cases and heads for the door. again, no names. no i.d., no paperwork. not even a receipt. total time of the gun show, 45 minutes. $1,650 spent. three semiautomatic handguns purchased. incidentally, because there s no paper trail, none of these weapons can ever be traced to the buyer. later, the same day in greenville, south carolina. and it s the biggest show of the five our team attended. after wandering the floor, our producer spots this gentleman carrying a semiautomatic rifle on his shoulder. asking price, $1,200. the strap doesn t come with it. that s on my .22. i just moved it over. reporter: the bushmaster xm-15 is a semiautomatic only
and heads for the door. again, no names. no i.d., no paperwork. not even a receipt. total time of the gun show, 45 minutes. $1,650 spent. three semiautomatic handguns purchased. incidentally, because there s no paper trail, none of these weapons can ever be traced to the buyer. later, the same day in greenville, south carolina. and it s the biggest show of the five our team attended. after wandering the floor, our producer spots this gentleman carrying a semiautomatic rifle on his shoulder. asking price, $1200. the strap doesn t come with it. that s on my .22. i just moved it over. reporter: the bushmaster xm-15 is a semiautomatic only civilian version of the m-16 u.s. military rifle. first introduced in the vietnam war and still used by u.s.
the congress and senate and we have to reach 60 votes several times in the process in order for this to go all the way. so it needs to be bipartisan. there needs to be a significant number on both sides obviously and that is going to take some public support. senator toomey, senator manchin just mentioned a few moments ago that part of the job that you two guys are involved in right now is selling it. selling meese proposals. right. pretend i m john boehner, i m the house republican caucus. sell it to me now. if i was selling it to john and talking to him, i would say, john, if you look at current law today, if you go to a legitimate gun owner who is a licensed federal firearm dealer you have to have a background check and he or she will keep the record. all we re saying is when you go to gun show and you go to that same dealer showing it at the gun show the same process is done. background check and they have to keep the record. i can go to the next table over and i don t have