Senator Ted Cruz Joins Meet the Press to Talk Second Amendment and Debt Ceiling

Congress and there are two big issues that are going to dominate the beginning of the president's second term guns and

Cruz of Texas welcome back and senator Cruz %HESITATION to meet the press welcome to both of you %HESITATION

I want to start on this gun debate because as I say you before the second term is officially underway this debate is well underway here are the highlights of what the president wants to accomplish with

comprehensive %HESITATION gun control universe so background checks he'd like to pursue a ban on high capacity magazines

on assault weapons ban that of course lapsed into thousand for any like stricter laws on gun trafficking

but senator Schumer justice I challenged Wayne lapierre of the NRA on this program very hard %HESITATION

when when this initially came up I challenge you as well with the question of is this really going to make a difference and rich

Lowry wrote some in the club by tension in the National Review and I'll put it up on the screen he writes this unfortunately no one can write mothers

owning guns that one day might be turned against them by deranged sons who then commit horrific acts of murder suicide shooting

don't care if they're caught and usually want to die these are adults facts that don't intrude on the childish world of white house policy making he

notes Adam Lanza in new town his own mother of course passed a background check here's the bottom line these

laws are not perfect and you'll always find certain exceptions but they make a huge difference every

major person who studied the Brady law which is the most significant %HESITATION gun safety law we've passed since in

the last %HESITATION twenty years has said he has reduced gun violence dramatically law enforcement is totally for the Brady law and

the idea that felons or people who are mentally infirm were people who were spousal abusers should

be allowed to buy guns most everyone of res on that has no overwhelming evidence that the assault weapons ban dramatically

well the bottom line is that during the ten years that that he assault weapons ban was in effect the use of those weapons in crimes went down a significant percentage senator

are you is there any gun regulation any restriction of gun rights that you could accept that you could vote for well

sure I I think the fact that we had the background bye bye prevent felons in those with serious Milt mental

mental illnesses from acquiring and I think those make perfect sense so universal background check at some you could well or the

current state of the law is those background checks are in place when a licensed firearm dealer sells %HESITATION

Firas and I think there's a lot of room for improvement on this forty percent of the sales are are private citizen a private citizen that's the Leupold we talk about well except

and so it we that that study is highly questionable that forty I don't wind up here never question that study when I brought up that point he had a question about the feasibility and and give correcting a collecting records but

licensed firearm dealer who sells at a gun show has to have a background check it it's a requirement that applies to

every licensed firearm dealer what it doesn't apply is personal sales one on one and that's true whether it's at a gun show or senator Schumer is this the most likely area of agreement universal background check even