Subcommittee on a rise of organized retail crime. Discuss how criminal networks are recruiting people online and on the black market encourage congress to pass new legislation to help address the issue. [background noises] [background noises] committee on Homeland Security subcommittee and counterterror and Law Enforcement intelligence will come to order. Without objection subcommittee may recess at any point. The purpose of this hearing is to evaluate the unprecedented uptick in organized retail crime in the United States and to hear testimony from key witnesses from federal government and private industry. I doubt recognize myself for an Opening Statement. That afternoon. We welcome you to todays important hearing on organized retail crime threats to our public safety. The topic of todays hearing is the issue of organized retail crime. Which has been rising throughout the country demonstrating a threat to tens of thousands of retailers of all sizes and subjecting employees and custom
The committee on Homeland Security comes to order. The purpose of this hearing today is to evaluate the uptick in retail crime in the United States. And your testimony. I recognize myself for Opening Statement. Good afternoon. We welcome you to todays important hearing on organized retail crime and threats to public safety. The topic of the hearing is the issue of organized retail crime , which has been rising throughout the committee, demonstrating a threat to and subjecting employees and customers to real harm. As Many Americans flock to stores to complete holiday shopping, Large Organizations are exploiting dashed to carry on an unprecedented spike in retail crime. Generally it involves two or more people obtaining items through theft or fraud through criminal enterprise. This is not the same thing as petty theft. Or shoplifting. This involves multiple events across stores and jurisdictions , further complicating efforts for Law Enforcement combat these crimes. We have reports that
The committee on Homeland Security comes to order. The purpose of this hearing today is to evaluate the uptick in retail crime in the United States. And your testimony. I recognize myself for Opening Statement. Good afternoon. We welcome you to todays important hearing on organized retail crime and threats to public safety. The topic of the hearing is the issue of organized retail crime , which has been rising throughout the committee, demonstrating a threat to and subjecting employees and customers to real harm. As Many Americans flock to stores to complete holiday shopping, Large Organizations are exploiting dashed to carry on an unprecedented spike in retail crime. Generally it involves two or more people obtaining items through theft or fraud through criminal enterprise. This is not the same thing as petty theft. Or shoplifting. This involves multiple events across stores and jurisdictions , further complicating efforts for Law Enforcement combat these crimes. We have reports that
Good morning, everybody. Thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil man in las vegas and southern springs and those two places get all the attention, but theres lesser number of people have died other places as well. Today with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1100 rounds into. A crowd of those attending a Country Music concert. The bump stocks enabled this person to fire ammunition as fast as if he had used an aut automatic weapon. 58 people died. Our laws prohibit the manufacture machine guns for decades and decades that has been the case. During the Obama Administration they determined that bump stocks are legal. A number of member of congress recently rote the atf asked it to revision the decision. Two days ago the atf announced
Hearing comes a month after the us air force admitted a clerical error that allowed a former airman who shot 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, texas, to buy a gun despite a Domestic Violence conviction in 2012. The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing runs a little over three hours. [inaudible conversations] good morning everybody. Thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil man in las vegas and Sutherland Springs. Those two places get all the attention but there is lesser number of people dying in other places as well. Today, with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1, 2017, few americans know what a bump stock was. Then, a shooter used bump stock to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a Country Music concert. The shooting lasted only 10 minutes.