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Hes just shooting into a mass of people. with a submachine gun. hes not restricted. he has -- hes up on the 32nd floor just shooting down on them. its just an awful scene, but no, its not hard to get the guns. its not hard to convert the guns. ammunition, ayman, to your question, how much can you buy? how much money do you have? how big is your truck. thats how much you could have. theres no restrictions. >> does a gun thats been converted sound any different. >> no. sounds just like that one ri...

A person and fired from the shoulder. thats a submachine gun. a machine gun is a heavier weapon mounted on a tri dpod or vehicle and not usually carried by a soldier. its more of a vehicle mounted, fires a heavier caliber round this is more likely a submachine gun. sometimes they can be mounted on a stand or have a bipod front or tripod. theyre capable of being carried by a soldier. thats what theyre designed for. theyre designed for war. submachine gunfire into the crowd is absolutely indicativ...

Magazine as you hold the trigger down. thats how its defined under the law. firearm that will, you know, fire when the trigger is held down under a constant rate of fire. you know, thats a submachine gun without question no doubt. thats not a person pulling the trigger each time. >> i want to listen to the the police scanner of dispatch as they were getting those initial accounts of the gunshots. lets taken a listen to this. pick up on the back end of it. >> critical information

A way this could be stopped from the beginning. >> how do you walk into the mandalay bay hotel in las vegas with a submachine gun, something youre describing that is used in war, with a stand. you have all this equipment. thats unbelievable. >> certainly from your travels in the middle east a very different landscape there. i guess thats why i was asking this question. you travel to these luxury hotels in these tourist destinations, which las vegas is, you do have the metal detectors and airport...

Could you buy endless amounts of ammunition for a weapon of that sort, as you mentioned, a sub machine gun. most of the western states have very relaxed fire laws with the exception of california, places like informnevada and ar traditionally firearm laws are not very strict. federal law is stricter on machine guns and sub machine guns and requires registration. illegal to possess if not registered with atf. that was one of the laws we clearly enforced all the time trying to take those sub mac...

Jim, when youre look at that vantage point, which i think is interesting -- and i want you to talk about this. talk about the number of casualties. 20-plus people are dead, that number obviously changing by the minute. and seeing the distance there, from the mandalay bay to the concert venue, are you surprised by that number, considering how far -- and, by the way, maybe im wrong. maybe its not as far as it looks. im not there. i cant necessarily see. are you surprised at all by the distance and...

Arrest you and carries a he penalty, but people do it all the time. criminals do it. they try to convert weapons. some people try to sell the weapons. if a person was bent on getting one, they could. also, old military weapons like say you know used in wars, surplus weapons, weapons left on a battlefield, weapons stolen, theres m 16 is a fully automatic sub machine gun. fire the full magazine when you hold the trigger down. thats what is going on here.