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He served on the police force for how long? >> 27 years. 20 of them on the s.w.a.t. team. >> sean: you know how dangerous the situation is. >> she called me. she was at the intersection. with mandalay bay. she calls me screaming petrified. she says dad, the police are making me get down and i hear firecrackers. she said it sounded like firecrackers and im hearing the rapid-fire of an automatic weapon. im like emily, that is not firecrackers. can you see anything? she said im literally in a dog p...

>> shepard: thanks, john. lets go to a.b. stoddard. good to see you. >> good to see you, shep. >> shepard: this debate will come, those on the gun control side, are pushing for it today. their argument is theres no time like on the heels of a tragedy to keep another tragedy from happening. thats their position. >> theyre making an argument that is reasonable that the time to talk about these things is when they happen and victims families are grieving and want something done about it. if this is...

White house that the white house has been issuing these talking points to its surrogates. essentially urging those sur row gatss go out and say now is not the time to talk about gun control, that we have to wait for the facts to come in. but the facts are in. weve had these mass shootings over and over and over again and the members of congress up on capitol hill have simply done nothing about it. you have an issue here in las vegas where this gunman was able to convert a semiautomatic weapon to...

Him. >> sean: your daughter was there. you hear about this. you served on the police force for how long? >> 27 years. 20 of them on the s.w.a.t. team. >> sean: you know how dangerous the situation is. >> she called me. she was at the intersection. with mandalay bay. she calls me screaming petrified. she says dad, the police are making me get down and i hear firecrackers. she said it sounded like firecrackers and im hearing the rapid-fire of an automatic weapon. im like emily, that is not firecra...

What enabled him to do. >> sandra: the debate is raging on capitol hill. >> i dont defend having an automatic weapon. it is totally inappropriate to have automatic weapons in civilian hands. >> sandra: the gun debate is raging. senator chris murphy of connecticut. i want your response. he is going after congress on this. listen. >> this country has the loosest set of gun laws allowing dangerous people to own dangerous weapons. what is unacceptable in the wake of the most deadly mass shooting in ...

Paraphernalia, timers, vessels to contain explosives, wires, electrical sources, then maybe i would say hes dabbling in building a bomb. but a guy whos an aved shooter, especially practicing shooting at distances, we use ammonium nitrate and a mixture to build what we call an exploding target. and this a common thing of people who are avid shooters, especially shooters testing their weapons or sighting their weapons at great distances. >> i want to ask you about this bump stock. and drew griffon...

Gabby giffords just about died a few years ago. scalise is saying to pray for the first responders and victims. one lawmaker says he is learning more. >> when i saw the clips and heard the fire i just assumed he had an automatic weapon. i did not know there was technology capable that cheaply of transforming a semi automatic into an automatic weapon. i dont think there is any question we ought to look at that. >> while its a very emotional issue some suggesting there may be common sense steps th...

Change to our gun laws. you know this president intimately. is there a possibility he would be open to change? >> a very specific thing. there is a new technology which is relatively cheap that enables you to take a semi automatic weapon and convert it into an automatic weapon, which is illegal. it strikes me as a practical common sense thing that we ought to find some way to make -- take that particular device and make it part of the 1934 federal gun act which makes it illegal to have an automa...

Come up against resistance when thinking about guns. whats your take on this, sir? >> i know in south dakota, like the rest of the country, we have very strict requirements for anybody that wants to possess an automatic weapon. so honestly, ive used guns all of my life in lots of different recreational and hunting opportunities. ive never shot an automatic weapon. so when we start talking about these mechanisms that are design today create and take a single-shot item and change it into one that ...

Five, six, seven, eight hours. its unclear if shes going to come back to las vegas. she could be there for a few days. the new pictures of the guns stephen paddock had inside the mandalay bay hotel room. these are some of the semiautomatic weapons they are. this is an idea of some of the 23 weapons he had in there. we know from alcohol, tobacco, and firearms that at least 12 of those weapons were equipped with a bump stop, the mechanism that turns the trigger close to an automatic weapon. it kee...