Gun laws in America and how the ATF was set up to fail

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Npr, Daily, Talk Show

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives enforces gun laws already on the books. How can enforcement happen when the very agency charged with doing so are handicapped by Congress? Champe Barton and David Chipman joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:19.5	9-1-1, what's your emergency?
0:21.4	My name is Colby Weathers.
0:23.0	I live in Wellington, Missouri, and I shot my father.
0:26.4	Okay, you said I see father?
0:28.4	Yes, you just lay in there and there's a ton of blood.
0:30.6	I'm pretty sure he's dead.
0:32.1	On the morning of June 27, 2012, 38-year-old Colby Weathers drove about 10 miles from her
0:41.4	home of Wellington, Missouri to a pawn shop in Odessa, Missouri.
0:46.1	She bought a gun and drove back to Wellington.
0:49.5	Colby walked into her parents' house.
0:52.2	Her father was sitting at his computer.
0:54.8	Textilaina had his back turned when Colby shot him.
0:59.0	Is he conscious right now?
1:00.6	Are you close to him?
1:02.4	I can't look at him.
1:03.4	He's been laying on the kitchen for since I did it.
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