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Poster for come to this shooting range in las vegas and shoot a fully automatic machine gun. i mean, that is, as ken said, culturally thats a hard change to make. >> some peoples fantasy, its clearly been a nightmare and continues to be. next, las vegas police had a quick response to really an impossible situation. the question is there anything they could have done or should do in the future to prevent a shooting like this. they were heroes in the city two nights ago. how can they be he rroes...

Stocks. for those of us who dont know the gun industry, it seems astounding that one individual could fire off the amount of shots that he did. >> sure. well our own pete williams confirmed this morning that the atf has determined that he purchased two bump stock devices. ups not officially confirmed yet that those were used in the shooting but thats the working perception. the stock of the gun is what fits against your shoulder. this device uses the recoil of the rifle to depress the trigger ra...

Well. so he had a true arsenal of weapons in that hotel room, including high capacity magazines. but thats the how he did it. the why, to answer your question, ali, is still illusive. >> yeah. its so strange. this far after an event not to have more clues as to why. i know you and other members of the team are working on it. pete williams thank you for that. >> this bump shots, what is the rationale behind why theyre even available? >> we talk about how you cant buy a machine gun in america if y...

>> thats a good question. there are arguments why there should be higher capacity magazin magazines, why there should be stronger guns and a lot of it comes from hunting. but nobody hunts with a fully automatic weapon. >> this is what i dont understand. >> this is part of the discussion that we need to have. some people say its not time to have that discussion. but why do we have these things. this isnt a second amendment right. this is darcht conversation. why are military style weapons -- and ...

Automatic weapons fire. and it is a modification that is readily available and sieeems likely to have been used in this horrific attack. >> theres the type of weaponry that he used and then the number of firearms found in the gunmans hotel room and in his home in me skesquite, nevada. >> we heard his his brother saying he didnt know him to be a gun collector. so it seems clear that this man formed an arsenal. he had the resources to do that. one of the issues of speculations that using the modif...

Fully automatic guns where you depress the trigger one times and it shoots many times. there are modifications made guns and there are things like the bump stocks that can be legally bought. whats the legal position on this. why have we created a system in which you can create a fully automatic gun that emulates a machine gun? >> basically because congress wont act. it wont enforce any law or pass any law to make us safer. and if youre for reasonable gun law, youre against the second amendment. ...

Foreign relations and known as the chief architect behind obamacare, but he specializes in being a chef. dr. ezekiel emanuel is here. i have to ask your favorite dish. >> i have a raspberry rhubarb >> i like shooting lots of guns. i am applying to get a permanent for a fully automatic machine gun. if that comes through in six or seven months, come on down. if i dont think i would handle that well. >> eboni: lets get started. leaks and unmasking in the spotlight during a senate hearing today. thi...

Recruitment today. fears are intensified that a bigger isis attack could be in the works. officials now trying to track down clues about this man, an isis-linked hacker in his early 20s who exchanged tweets with one of the texas gunmen. a former hacker they are saying is extremely dangerous. >> i didnt think he was a threat at all up until a point where he was video chatting on skype with me dressed as black power ranger holding up ak-47 which i thought was a rifle but fully realized its a fully...

We now know when he went to the gun stores, he bought two devices known as bump stocks. and then from -- once you pull on the trigger from then on, the recoil of the rifle itself causes the trigger to keep pulling. you dont have to manually pull the trigger. the gun in essence pulls its own trigger because of the recoil of the weapon. and its believed that that is at least one of the ways that he got these 23 or some of these 23 guns -- youre looking at a search of the room last night. some of h...