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The amount of -- we dont know how many shell casings actually will be found, they havent accounted for that. but the amount of munitions that he still had available to him. and had he chosen to continue firing, the death toll, its incalculable. >> it would have been. another thing that needs to be brought up, and weve talked about this, the bump stock that hes using, this kind of odd mechanism that allowed his weapon to fire like an automatic. thats not easy to use. its a very difficult kind of ...

So much about sensible pragmatic steps this is about the principle and that makes it so complicated so thats what the politicians have to say and im south but how about the survivors because you you spoken with many of them there in las vegas what are they saying on the matter. was interesting among the survivors that we talked to of course a number of them said there should be stricter gun control that there should be limitations there should be limitations in particular on military style rifle...

Hes using, this kind of odd mechanism that allowed his weapon to fire like an automatic. thats not easy to use. its a very difficult kind of technique to master. which means he would have had to have practiced a lot. and the question mark is, where was he doing it? and was anybody assisting him with that? >> you made the point earlier about the way he was using -- the way the gun was set up. >> it was set up for tactical purposes. but those weapons are not made to fire in automatic status. so th...

I think were coming up to speed with what this is. fully automatic rifles have been banned for a long time. this allows you to turn a semiautomatic into an automatic, so clearly thats something we need to look into. >> senator feinstein in her third term in 1983 or 1984 got the semiautomatic weapon ban passed and then after ten years, congress let is sit. then after sandy hook, they tried it again and got nowhere. but this could be one small step? >> its opening the door to effective legislation...

From around the country people are saying, this is it, enough is enough, that theyre going to throw us a bone. bump stocks, solving that problem by making them illegal, will solve maybe 1% of the problem. what i hope our democrats do in some progressive republicans do is amend that bill and make them vote on reinstating the assault weapons ban, which never should be allowed to sunset, because semiautomatic weapons, if that guy had semiautomatic as opposed to automatic, if he had no bump stocks, ...

Look, i won three elections where the nra was against me by ten points, 10 points, and 21 points. those are considered landslides, particularly in a purple state like ours. the nra is a paper tiger. what they do is they pick on one state representative or one congressman, and they pour all their money into that one race and defeat that one person and say, see, we can do it to you. but if everyone stands up and has the guts and the courage of their convictions and everyone votes the right way, th...

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...

Lets get real in this country. you dont hunt with semiautomatic or automatic weapons. you dont need a magazine that has more than ten shots to shoot a deer or an elk. lets get real. lets do something to protect our people. >> in a letter to the editor of "new york times" today i happened to read today, alex wrote today, alex carter, shes a professor of law at columbia jump journalism. you have to understand why this shooting happened. its much more important than it happened. anyway, find ow how...

Verification that shes en route or she got this $100,000. the second thing is, of course, i want to get my numbers right. 47 firearms, 12 bump stock devices. bump stock devices, you heard the woman from the atf, she was sort of twisting and turning, trying to define what the pump stock device does and doesnt do. she says they dont mechanically alter the gun, therefore theyre not illegal. even an atf person finds it hard to explain how theyre used in any way except to alter the experience, theref...

Drew how did the shooter come by so many weapons, do we know? >> he had been acquiring the weapons legally for years. it may become as a shock, because he had no records and a lot of money he had everything he needed to acquire what he needed to make these weapons, automatic, legally. the difference between a semiautomatic one shot at a time assault rifle. and this fully automatic assault rifle is stunning. holy smokes. >> 90 rounds in seconds. >> reporter: 9.43 seconds, 90 rounds, polk county s...