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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.
Hours. Morning, everybody and thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather today and the wake of violent acts by a violent man in las vegas and southern springs. There is a lesser number of people who find other places as well. Today with the help of our witnesses we hope to learn more about how those tragedies may haveve been prevented and we wil discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1, 2017, few americans knew what they dump stock was. Then a shooter used him to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a Country Music concert. The shooting lasted only ten minutes. The bump stocks enabled this person to fire ammunition as fast as if he had used an automatic weapon. 58 people died, 500 wounded. The deadliest mass shooting in our history. The law laws prohibiting the factoring of machine guns for decades and decades as has been the case and greatly restrict the sale but during the Obama Administration it was determined bump
But we begin tonight with something that is an important story in its own terms. But for those of us at msnbc and nbc news, it is also an incredibly emotional thing. And i can tell you, it ends with good news. It ends with this news, which i can say personally was greeted by all of us as the best news in the world when we saw it. Its nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, looking a little dishevelled, a little less groomed than usual, but as you can see, looking like himself. On the left this is gazi and john cloister, a longtime nbc news photographer. These three men were able to appear live on the today show, fife days after being kidnapped and held in captivity in syria. Just hours before this shot of them this morning, they were freed by a Syrian Rebel Group who rescued them from an unknown group that had taken them and that had held them for five, long, horrible days. The rebel group not only rescued these three, they then took responsibility for driving them to the borde
Inouye, who died yesterday. Weve got all that news ahead. But we begin tonight with something that is an important story in its own terms. But for those of us at msnbc and nbc news, it is also an incredibly emotional thing. And i can tell you, it ends with good news. It ends with this news, which i can say personally was greeted by all of us as the best news in the world when we saw it. Its nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, looking a little disheveled, a little less groomed than usual, but as you can see, looking like himself. On the left this is ghazi balkiz and john klooister, a longtime nbc news photographer. These three men were able to appear live on the today show, fife days after being kidnapped and held in captivity in syria. Just hours before this shot of them this morning, they were freed by a Syrian Rebel Group who rescued them from an unknown group that had taken them and that had held them for five, long, horrible days. The rebel group not only rescued these