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Led the shooter to commit such a horrific act. as investigators search for answers, lawmakers in washington are broaching the debate over gun control. this time with small signs of agreement, republicans have expressed openness to a measure that would ban or restrict ownership of bump stocks, the mechanisms used by the las vegas shooter to turn his semiautomatic rifles into something more closely resembling an even more rapid-fire automatic weapon. even the nra endorsed tighter restrictions on t...

Control laws they claim would have stopped the deadly las vegas shooting. rob: donald trump putting politics aside visiting the victims of that tragedy. >> reporter: democrats focusing on something called a bump stop. devices like the one used by the vegas shooter that allows someone to make a semi automatic weapon perform like an automatic weapon. they are legal for purchase but that may not be the case for long. senator dianne feinstein introduced legislation that would ban them for good. >> t...

Be not just bipartisan, but perfectly bipartisan. we want to have an equal number of republicans and democrats on it. we think we need to send a strong message that, yes, we are willing to stand up and respond to this obvious and flagrant circumvention of existing law. as you said earlier, these weapons are illegal. no one has the right to have or fire an automatic weapon. these deviced turn legal weapons into illegal weapons an that is what we have to stop. >> do you think that there is fear on...

Stock, of this accessory that takes a semiautomatic weapon and turns it into virtually an automatic weapon? >> if you talked to anybody about a week ago, most people, including myself, didnt even know what a bump stock is. >> me, too. >> there are people who want to rush to judgment, theyve got a bill written already. minority leader nancy pelosi already said she wants it to be a slippery slope. she doesnt want to stop at bump stocks, they want to go out and limit the rights of gun owners. its a...

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And/or an accomplice or else he is a superman. >> yeah, he said those exact words. a superman. he rephrased and said i dont want to call this guy a superman but he said it would be highly unusual for somebody to pull this off. getting all that ammunition, buying ammunition, explosives, knocking out the two windows. surveilling this place, the sheriff is stunned but he has no evidence to back up there is any accomplice or help. as far as them going into the gun store, brian, there was some conver...

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1934 law that bans automatic weapons by civilians. tom cole on another network said, this. >> no question we ought to look into that. automatic weaponses -- when i saw the clips and heard the fire, i assumed he had an automatic weapon. i didnt know that there was technology capable that cheaply of transforming a semiautomatic into an automatic weapon. yeah, i dont think theres any question we ought to look at that. >> even republicans are describing this as a loop hole, one that they can close q...