Cory Booker: “Again, I appreciate this point that I want to keep coming back to, which is that we are--and both Republicans and…”

“Again, I appreciate this point that I want to keep coming back to, which is that we are--and both Republicans and Democrats talk about--in a war with a determination to defeat our enemy. Yet our enemy has spoken very clearly about exploiting the loopholes that exist in a way for those who are seeking to do terror to buy weapons. In other words, as to someone who is suspected already by the FBI, suspected by the American Government to have designs on the kind of terroristic act that could take many Americans, as we saw this past weekend, we already know who that person is, and our enemy has basically advertised the fact that it doesn't matter. If they were already suspected by the FBI and had been interviewed by them last year or 5 years ago, they explicitly said: Don't worry about that because America--singling us out from European countries and others that are terrorist targets--in particular has this loophole we can exploit. Even though you have been suspected of terrorism and have been interviewed by the FBI, you can still find ways to easily obtain weapons by taking these measures, such as going to a gun show or ordering online. We just passed a Defense authorization bill that will allocate billions and billions of dollars for our national defense.…”