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died when charlie mitchell from taking action is in charlie the other show one
asked about approaching down at his issue of gun control harry reid is said
that he's gonna to yelp of bill for votes in the senate in early april
uh... this past week e indicated that he's not going all out the ban on
assault weapons ban on high-capacity magazines to be part of the underlying
bill which will include
rafiq ng restrictions and perhaps background checks every reed said that
these measures on
high-capacity magazines in the stall weapons can be introduced as a
men men's explain why that is signifi it and why that like we do miss these
issues in particular
well according to hurry worry he has whipped obispo ratings got around to his
democratic senators it'd
he's determined that he doesn't have
anywhere near sixty votes to pass
the assault-weapon pair which and remember we had an assault weapons ban
in the nineties for for many years and was allowed to expire him and and it
hasn't been reinstated
a lot of people thought this would be the here at the aftermath of the
horrible tragedy newtown win
congress actually would we lucas assault weapons ban
read doesn't have the votes reid is very concerned about
tolerable democrats who are up for election in twenty fourteen uh... people
score in states like montana chon pastor and and
some other states where gun rights are very important and democratic senators
of those states are
always very quick to point out that they are pro gun rights in and everything
um...
so
having as part of the underlying little
created the difficult situation where re felt that he was going to be butting
his most vulnerable
senators in a position to vote for something where
that you know that would come back and haunt them come election day
that flip-side of that is that a lot of people
felt that
they newtown was really the latest in a series of really horrible horrible
tragedies and that it change the equation
and they're deployed
weekend their position of those who say you can't have something like an assault
weapons ban
but apparently it did and that the map in the senate says instead of fairy
base level that it just hasn't moved enough votes
so now reads decided to pick up a little from the original legislation that the
legislative package that'll bring up
will allow a vote on amendments it'll come up as an amendment for sure um...
dianne feinstein the senator from california
edged out the chill bring it to the floor and she's still trying to picking
support for it as per
many other democratic senators
it's it's likely it will fall short
now can you get the pork barrel
david that includes
they'd be expanded background checks and this is kind of the the
main questions here of
can you get
can you it into law think even private sales of
guns
you have to check the background have to take a criminal and and will help a
record of the person is buying the card
there are probably sixty senators who would support that and that would be
uh... dramatic change in policy that we're closer a huge loophole id
you know who has access to firearms and and people who really should people who
ap criminal records are people who have path
very very severe bottle features
and all of that these are our people you're trying to prevent from getting
the concert at the point of purchase
now there's a whole dispute that's emerged over the capitol and that's what
they're
a private seller would have to keep records of these things and republicans
who got along with this upset
will go along with it but we're not going to require
private citizens to keep records of what they find it at that that's an undue
burden
democrats say well if you don't keep records your tied up
missing the whole point of nearer to your
losing the value of having this this background check requirement of the
first place so it's a pretty fundamental disagreement and its its
stopped at the progress on something that looked
really promising in terms of
pulling together a bipartisan compromise of a really
congress congress is gone they looked at the end of the week for a for a recess
will have to see what happens when they get back to the fate of the negotiators
can resolve that challenge authentication is charlie thanks is
always nice to have a great weekend
great thank you david