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Theyre generally much younger. in terms of what you would think that his background would be, how hard is it to shoot an automatic weapon? you dont have to be a marksman. you just fire down and it finds victims. >> absolutely. obviously purchasing one of tho those, you cant do that in the united states. about are there some that are out? sure. could people buy a semiautomatic and make an illegal modification to it to allow a semiautomatic to become a fully automatic weapon. that was automatic we...

To find out exactly who is involved in creating these horrific events. brian: what i would like to do is lets listen to this in realtime why somebody posted this on instagram of the way -- see the wave of bullets probably reloading on the machine gun. not semiautomatic but automatic weapon ♪ [gunfire] [singing stops] ainsley: steve, my question for you is because i know have you experience with this. and you knew automatically it was semiautomatic weapon. brian: that was automatic. ainsley: au...

Will take a quick pause. we will listen to the police scanner traffic that we picked up from the moment of the shooter who hasnt been identified at this point. the moment that he was taken down by las vegas vegas police, we want to let everyone listen to this. hang on a second, randy. [inaudible] heather: well, we were just talking about officers not necessarily or security not necessarily being armed anymore there at some of the casinos but they certainly did a good job of bringing down the sho...

One of the authorities that joined us earlier, i believe it was lieutenant randy sutton, if there was a possibility that the shooter himself was an employee there because i was wondering how they were able to get weapons in and we were told, we should mention that once authorities and officers were able to enter the room there at the mandalay bay, i believe, that they did see a lot of ammunition there in the room as well. rob: i still dont think -- and steve, you can speak on this, i dont think ...

His name is steven paddock. he was born on april 9th, 1953. which made him 64 years old. brian: the number is rounded off but the sheriff did say over 50 dead. if that is indeed panning out to be correct, sadly, that beats orlandos mark of 49 dead, which means this would be the deadliest shooting in american history. that is it for us right now. well return you and all our affiliates back to the regular programming. have you been listening to a fox news alert. stay with the fox news channel and ...

Age. we know that four people didnt survive. those were people that didnt survive when they arrived at the hospital. its been a very, very tricky situation here and across the city at other hospitals as well. this has shaken people from the las vegas strip all the way up to state government. the lieutenant governor hutchison with us right now. i want to ask you, what was your reaction when you very first heard about this shooting? >> i just couldnt believe it. i couldnt believe this kind of trag...

Firing at a crowd that was about 1700 feet away from where he was. so -- and the range of an assault weapon would be about 2000 feet. so its within the range of these weapons, and that may explain some people have wondered well, how could he achieve so much being so far away. its within the range of these types of weapons, and we dont know yet what kinds of weapons. we dont know what the caliber is. obviously the authorities know that. theres an emergency trace going onto try to figure out when ...

Aldean, how close were you seeing the bullets come in? >> you could hear it. what was amazing that it sounded -- ive heard guns before go off but this sounded like fully automatic, some sort of weapon that was nonstop and stopped for about 30 seconds and then it was almost like a reload and back on it again. another 30 seconds. literally at that point people are running in all directions and chaos is happening and i ran and somehow found a bus to hop on in another parking lot and everybody seeme...

Which has been illegal to purchase a brand-new fully automatic weapon since 1986. so, exactly what kind of a weapon was used is not clear but it certainly seems whether it was a semi-automatic that was converted or an automatic weapon illegally purchased or has been legal and in his possession since 1986, it seems like it was for all intent and purposes, during the killing, it was in full automatic mode. >> we sure are going to find that part out relatively soon. he took -- he used one weapon to...

He -- this guy drove from mesquite down to las vegas for the sole purpose of committing this act. he had the guns. theres no other reason for him to bring those guns to the mandalay bay. he strategically checked into a room that was right across from the event. and, you know, the only question in my mind is, why did he wait until the last act of the last day? its horrific. i dont think theres anything we could have done to prevent it. he is a lone wolf. i would like to try to find out, as does l...