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Tim Walz: “The ability to fire 116 rounds in 90 seconds into a church…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Gov. Walz says GOP leaders won't consider any gun bans

Published | Video Starts at 02:39

The binary trigger needs to be addressed. The storage issue needs to be addressed. There's things that we can do but I do think this issue now is this high capacity magazine, The ability to fire 116 rounds in 90 seconds into a church full of children is something [that needs to be addressed]. And so I know the usual comebacks. Well how do you define these weapons? Or what if they'd have had a shotgun they wouldn't have fired 116 rounds in 90 seconds. (02:39–02:51)

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Asserts that high-capacity magazines enabling rapid firing need to be addressed.

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