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How-to, but it sounds like its pretty ease toy do that. can you explain if its ease toy convert a rifle into -- semi automatic into a fully automatic? >> sure. well, there are a number of ways to do it. in terms of fully automatic fire, there are some accessories that are available on the market such as a bump fire stock or slide fire. that is an accessory that can be used to modify a weapon like an ar-15 to allow it to fire in rapid succession or automatic fire. >> sam, hold on a second. i just...

It is perfectly legal by definition. >> sam, sam, how is that possible? how -- why would it ever be legal for regular civilians to be able to turn their rifle into an automatic weapon, when automatic weapons are banned? >> well, the automatic weapons themselves are banned. in this particular case, the accessory is nothing -- nothing about it makes it illegal in terms of what it does to the actual firearm, to modify whether its the trigger mechanism or some other feature like a drop-in that makes...

This stage until you can start to close them out with sufficient evidence. but apparently has a girlfriend who has left the country so also curious about her. >> chief ramsey, take a listen to this 911 dispatch audio. >> im inside the mandalay bay on the 31st floor i can hear the gunfire from one floor above us. >> is there a unit? >> repeating be advised automatic fire, fully automatic fire from elevated position. take cover. >> thats correct. fully automatic fire. >> chief, explain for our vie...

People are almost respectfully glancing over from the pedestrian bridges here, a few will walk up, look over and keep moving. the last time i experienced vegas like this was as a young reporter in 1980. i covered my first story i covered here was the fire at the mgm grand hotel that killed 85 people. this is a very, very similar feeling. a somber feeling. a place where people go to have fun. and this huge cloud, obviously, of grief and anguish is hovering over this place as it is much of the cou...

Sounded like a fully automatic, you know, man portable machine gun, like a 223, like a soldier would carry, select fire usually. thats fully automatic fire there. that could be achieved in a variety of ways. the most common way, of course, is to have a submachine gun. the second way is what you were just discussing with defense counsel there is to have a semi-automatic gun originally made as a semi-automatic gun thats converted, re-engineered to be fully automatic. that usually is criminally don...

>> it could be as simple as him as letting a weapon cool off. they will heat up. think of him shooting a 30-round magazine every seconds. youre going to overuse and damage a weapon so its not shootable. that point will come quickly if youre shooting on automatic fire. could be that he was letting weapons cool. there are magazines made now for some assault-style weapons that will have 10 rounds in it. sounds like he shoot 30-rounds magazine. you can do a lot of damage and its made worse if he was...

Family members talking to the media today had described him as quiet and retired accountant. personally had some means, so acquired all this arsenal. weve talked to people who told us over the course of his life, they traced as many as 30 firearms hes bought. which again is not unusual in people certain parts of the country. today, one of the parts of the story they try to put together is these firearms, when did he buy them, did he alter them? because the way people have described at the scene,...

Automatic fire from the rifles that were being used here. the police have made it clear here, they believe only a single person fired all of these shots, simply sprays what is automatic weapons fire from the 32nd floor of this hotel, down on the concert goers on across the street. >> we have vins sager with his, who shot the video we have been showing to people throughout the night. this video that you are seeing there of people running away, hearing the gunfire spray. visent, do i have you. >> ...

Neighborhood complaints, the usual stuff? >> not really. the neighborhood reports on this man have been all over the map. you know, the quiet, kept to himself sort of reports. i wanted to make a point about the gun situation, though. as you know, authorities have saidthy recovered ten rifles from the hotel room. they havent said what kind of guns they were. experts who have been listening to this fire have suggested that theres a strong possibility they were modified semi-automatic weapons. and ...

And to the dispatchers. first thing they did was located the shooter. hes halfway up mandalay bay. i can see the muzzle flash. this is critical information the swat commander has to have is location. they tell its automatic fire. they tell its an elevated position. they tell about the gunshot victims. they ask for emergency. those patrol officers were just operating in a complete professional a plus mode. and as was swat. swat came in there. quickly got up there. you heard what you just played. ...