Gun control: The call for tougher laws
Posted: Dec 18, 2012 1:43 AM EDT | Updated: Nov 6, 2014 3:21 PM EDT
President Obama is not the only one asking for gun control changes.
As it stands right now, unless you have been convicted of a felony or deemed mentally incompetent by a court you can buy a gun.
But lawmakers on both sides are calling for tougher laws.
"I don't know of any anybody that goes hunting with an assault rifle. I don't know people that need ten, twenty, thirty-round clips," said Sen. Joe Manchin, of West Virginia.
It looks like a majority Americans agree that we need more gun control. A new ABC News poll shows 54 percent favor stricter gun control laws.
Several Democrats have said they'll introduce a new weapons bill in January on the first day of the next Congress.