rifle. that he was able to legally purchase, just like the gunman here and eovaldi. the vice president and the second gentleman will be in buffalo later today to attend the funeral of one of the victims of that massacre. meanwhile, as authorities we can continue to piece together the events of the tragedy here in uvalde, the nra is holding the second day of its annual convention in houston, just 270 miles east of here. joining me now, nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent, candlelight ian and, correspondent sam brock live in uvalde texas. can, the timeline of events of tuesday s tragedy keeps shifting. what has changed over the past few days in law enforcement s account of just what happened? good morning alicia well. you really had a shift from the department of public safety from defending the law enforcement response and saying that actually saved lives, to yesterday laying out a timeline that really made it clear that there was a series of colossal mis
Much time, maybe around a year, 12 months, could be even less than that depending on whether they consider the gun to have been possessed for Sporting Purposes or collection, and i dont know if he could make a case for that or not, but, you know, were talking about probably somewhere in the 12month neighborhood i would think. Jennifer, please stay with us. We want to reset for our viewers if youre just joining us on cnn news central, an historic decision by the Department Of Justice. They have filed charges against the son of President Joe Biden, hunter biden, three different charges, two of them related to lying on statements in an effort to buy a firearm. The third charge for actually possessing that for imas a prohibited person. A reminder, the case being brought by Special Counsel daniel weiss is based on Hunter Bidens purchase of this weapon as he wrote in his form that he was not using narcotics and later in a biography wrote that he did. We have a team of reporters and analysts
good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. we begin this very busy hour with breaking news from the supreme court. in a major 8-1 decision, the court upheld a statute that bars people subjected to domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. joining us now, nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor. good morning. break this down for us, if you would. reporter: this is a supreme court saying there are limits to the second amendment and in this case if you are somebody who is found in violation of domestic violence laws, and restraining order, you can temporarily have your firearms and access to firearms be taken away from you. i think it is interesting here because as you said, it is an 8-1 opinion. we talk about the supreme court being a 6-3 conservative majority. here in this case, you had liberals and conservatives on the same side, with chief justice john roberts writing the majority opinion here. the one dissenter is ju
handful of steps made by the federal government in recent years to address the deadly scourge of gun vile innocence america. the court opening the floodgates now to the spread of a tool that made possible the deadliest mass shooting in our country s history. in a 6-3 decision that splits on the ideological lines the nation s highest court eliminate add ban on bump stocks. now, bump stock is an accessory that make as deadly weapon a semiautomatic rifle. imagine this. even deadlier. bump stocks banned by the trump administration after a lone gunman perched on the 32nd floor of the mandalay resort in las vegas armed to the teeth with semiautomatic rifles outfitted with bump stocks and rained bullets down on a crowd of 22,000 people there to enjoy a concert. a mid panic and confusion, many didn t realize what was happening. he murdered 60 people and injured more than 500 more. in a series of rapid-fire bursts of gunfire made possible by bump stocks. this was that scene. [ gunfire
entire national security apparatus. it was filed in the supreme court case where the justices are considering the first second amendment challenge since 2008. we were united in telling the court that this easy access to weapons, that are so used lethal, semiautomatic, assault rifles, and other semiautomatic firearms makes as a target for foreign terrorist groups and makes our communities targets of domestic groups that engage in extremist violence and who try to a team course in the militias that we see proliferating across this country. what would effective regulation look to you? first, i want to be clear. there is a mythology about the second amendment, that it is absolute. it protects everything. the supreme court, in 2008, just as quickly, out one of the most conservative justices of the modern court was clear that