MSNBC twists Las Vegas shooting to advocate for national gun registry

By Carlos Garcia

An NBC reporter appeared to advocate for the creation of a national gun registry based on the comments from the brother of Stephen Paddock, the shooter who killed 59 Americans in Las Vegas on Sunday.

Here’s the video of the exchange:

Why it may be taking so long to trace the weapons. https://t.co/r1sHPCg60v

— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) October 2, 2017

What did he say?

“About these weapons,” Brian Williams asked, “what do we know?”

“Well Brian we know they seized more than 10 rifles in the hotel room but the brother asked a really interesting question – do they know who sold him the machine gun?” Ken Delanian asked. “Well that raises two issues.”

“One, we don’t know if he actually had a machine gun,” he explained. “A fully automatic weapon – those have been illegal since 1986. However you can get one if you register it, there are ways to legally acquire pre-1986 weapons. There are also cheap and easy ways to modify semi-automatic weapons that are legal and readily available.”

“But the other issue is it’s not easy for the ATF to trace gun ownership in this country,” he added. “There is no national gun database to trace the serial numbers …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze