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All the gen on Frances unique-looking rifle James Wharton 29th June 2021 at 4:36pm France is phasing out its FAMAS assault rifle which entered service with the French military in 1977 but what is its legacy over the last 45 years? During its time in service, the rifle has seen significant upgrades and action in several conflicts around the world. Here, detailing its specifications and use over its years of service, we look at the weapon systems characteristics, why it has stood the test of tim...

To fire tauautomatic fire. its possible to do that. you can take an ar-15 style weapon and make it fire automatically. and we know from the shooting in las vegas last year that its possible to use something called a bump stock that makes a weapon fire as though it were automatic, with only one trigger pull. so i think thats going to be one question, did he do something like that, or was he just firing so rapidly that it sounded like automatic fire. >> pete, last question here. i know investigato...

Penalty of death. thats the charge thats going to be filed, death upon conviction, of course. in the meantime, authorities are telling us a little more about how they think this happened today. they say that robert bowers walked into that synagogue about 10:30 this morning. lets see if thats the right time. no, sorry, just before 10:00, at 9:54, and thats when they got the first calls. the police officers arrived one minute later, and they say that he was armed with a semiautomatic weapon, altho...

Then? >> very little, alisyn. last night the lights went down on the las vegas strip in honor of the 58 lives that were stolen from us one year ago, thats when a deranged gunman smashed out the windows of his hotel room and shot into a crowd of concert goers, within seconds the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. the tool the gunman used to do it was the bump stock, this inexpensive plastic add-on us uses the rifles own recoil the bump the gun back and forth allowing it to approach the r...

And it was matthew riehls roommate that told them perhaps his roommate was having a mental breakdown. there was no crime committed. it wasnt until 5:00 in the morning they went back a third time. this time the roommate gave them a key and permission to go inside. riehl barricaded himself inside a bedroom and at 5:56 he fired on deputies hitting four of them, three managed to scramble to safety, one did not, zachary parish, 29 years old. he was killed. those three deputies crawling to safety, whi...

Managing to hit all four deputies. three of them managed to scramble to safety, and while they were doing that, reale continued to fire. some neighbors were awoken to gunfire and some went for their own weapons. listen. >> i heard a strong series of what sounded like automatic fire, so immediately i jumped out of bed, grabbed my own firearm, went to my front door, looked out the window and saw heavy police presence, police running to the scene, a few police on top of some buildings, just rapid r...

They are believed to be dead. it could just mean that there is a communication issue. we are in the coffee park neighborhood, really devastation as far as the eye can see. not a single home left standing. still so many people evacuated, 20,000 or so. the evacuation centers are filled. the need is great. they need clothes, they need childrens toys, meantime officials say that the death toll is at 17. theyve begun releasing the identities. they include an elderly couple, the husband 100 years old,...

Its that time of the morning, just about the top of the hour. lets get a check on moneystream. stocks are mostly higher. asian markets closed up. u.s. stock futures, well, dow futures looked like its ticked down here. delta will report earnings before the bell today. low fuel prices have been a boon for airlines. later the banks will start to report. the gun control group is seeking damages and counseling for the survivors of the mass shooting in las vegas. gunman stephen paddock had 12 rifles m...

Victims too and horrifying audio of weinstein seeming to admit to sexual assault. >> and president trump against his own secretary of state. jokes about an iq test. 17 dead now in wildfires in northern california. more than 100 people are missing and firefighters are still struggling to gain control, a dangerous and active situation in wine country. another fire raging all the way down south in anaheim. just a lot of trouble with the wildfires in california. >> welcome to "early start." im dav...

Control. but i knew there were ways to modify a semiautomatic weapon to make it automatic. to hear all these lawmakers say i never heard of a bump stock. how much conversation is going on about what the issues are. mollie: bump fire stock does not convert an automatic into an automatic. bump fire is a method of firing. it doesnt -- it simulates automatic fire. thats why its legal. its an important semantic difference. you can actually do bump faring using our thumb and a belt. change the classif...