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By an automatic weapon. this also questions being raised -- the legs of the shooter and a piece of paper on a side table. theres some speculation that it could be a notebook people are saying it is not a suicide note but they did not comment any further tonight. also the suspects girlfriend, marilou danley is back in the united states and has now been interviewed by the fbi. danley flew back to the united states from the philippines last night into night, her attorney -- heres a statement on beh...

This assault rifle, one of 12 outfitted with an attachment called a bump stock. it allows the gun to fire continuously like an automatic weapon. this video demonstrating how it works. on the tip of the rifle, a flash hider, making its fiery blast difficult to spot. and in the corner, a pile of 17 magazines holding 100 rounds each. youre looking at 1,700 bullets. paddock also installing his own surveillance system. a camera hidden on his room service cart, another behind the peephole, looking dow...

His hotel room that night, a bump stock makes the stock of the gun slide back and forth so that the recoil makes that firing pace effectively indistinguishable from an automatic weapon. experts believe that is how he shot so many rounds so quickly spraying that crowd with bullets over and over. policy is always about trade-offs. we know that. there is a trade-off for gun hobbyists who like their legal semiautomatics and like legally modifying them into even quicker firing machines and absurd as ...

The white house believes there should be new legislation into bump stocks, what the shooter in las vegas used in order to fire his semi-automatic weapons mostly like an automatic weapon. hallie jackson is in the white house briefing room and here in our newsroom is "new york times" reporter political reporter nick confessore. hallie, run us through the highlights of that briefing right there. >> reporter: yeah, because there were a couple. a lot of the questions focused obviously on what is happ...

Difference. that may be how law-abiding americans use these guns as hobby and maybe how they feel and gun manufacturers may agree. two views on this. this week showed another view that thousands of innocent americans and music fans stuck in the crowd that stephen paddock fired into, 12 bump fire stocks in hotel room that night. makes the stock of the gun slide back and forth so the recoil of the gun makes that firing pace effectively indistinguishable from automatic weapon. experts believe thats...

Machine guns allowing you to hold down the trigger to release a stream of bullets. its nearly impossible to justify gun use in self-defense if youre firing indiscriminately. those are literally not for self-defense but weapons of war. that law makes it illegal to buy a machine gun made after 1956 and turn another gun into automatic weapon. everybody knows gun laws are uphill battle. brady bill, assault weapons ban, both opposed by nra. that ban expired and remains defunct. cant buy a fully autom...

Weapon into an automatic weapon. its perfectly legal to buy them in the united states. i want to talk more about the investigation. joining us is sara sidner and law enforcement analyst and former assistant director of the u.s. marshals office art broderick. art, again, just the sheer volume of weapons. youve been looking at the sort of setup with some of these long rifles. you think he must have had some kind of experience, some sort of training or practice. >> absolutely. i mean, just acquirin...

And what those can do is help a gun fire much faster, very similar to an automatic weapon. what they dont know is whether or not he actually used those in the shooting. what we do know is he was shooting between 9 and 11 minutes. if you think about that, if he did use those and treated his guns and turned his guns into automatic weapons, that is a lot of people and explains the number of people injured and the number of people who were killed on that terrible night. we should also talk about the...

Practical purposes and automatic weapon. you want those made illegal, start? >> i absolutely do. im co-sponsoring legislation with mr. cicillineny from rhode island to make those illegal. they will change a regular gun into an automatic weapon that can fire 4 to 600 times in a minute. we dont need that for recreation. >> what do you know about those reports this killer may have cased out other venues, other sites in las vegas earlier, other music festivals as potential sites of horror? we have h...

You can see the gun that paddock used to carry out the deadly attack laying on the ground. 23 guns were found in the room including some that were modified in order to fire, like an automatic weapon. according to reports, paddock set up a camera inside the hotel room to film his rampage. they also set up security footage and we are asking the hotel tonight -- release this. the american people deserve to see what happened. police also say that paddock put a camera inside of a food cart that was l...