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Based on the reading of the law. as you recall in the clinton administration we banned assault weapons. that ban expired under the bush administration in a congress congress and probably the individuals at the bureau were looking at the letter of the law and assault weapon as one pull, one round as semi automatic. no other avenue but approving it. i think it should be banned. clearly. are at least according to former atf agents they had to look at the specific letter of the law that didnt ban ...

Told you. >> so if it is not grandfathered, in how do you get rid of the ones out there. im had some people e-mail me concerned that while we debate this, giving a high profile to this accessory, will actually create a run of people buying this accessory. how do we get it off the street. >> i think that is already happened, chuck. ive heard that hunlds if not thousands have been sold in recent days. were going to leave that to atf. congress passes laws and it is up to the agencies to implement t...

And i think he had a plan to hurt a lot of people and it was unfortunately a good plan. >> an ironic twist weve learned the insurance company to go after winston to pay for the blood that was in the truck for the one he stole. >> sandra: were hearing a lot about these bump stocks, the device used by the las vegas shooter to make his guns fire bullets faster. john sheahan was a former police sergeant on the swat team. we want to take this opportunity because the bump stocks are at the center of a...

A semi automatic rifles rate of fire to that of an automatic. >> there has been a lot of talk about what we can do, where we can come together, and i think this issue represents a very likely common ground, if there is one. >> sandra: joining me is doug schoen and molly hemingway, both fox news contributors. were all required to become experts on these guns, molly. something you know a lot about. a few days ago, not many of us knew what a bump stock was. there is an important distinction to be m...

Semi automatic or quasiautomatic weapons to do what he did or that there should be 300 million guns on american streets. that seems a recipe for a genuine american carnage, for example the trump administration is so reluctanct to talk about. >> and do you believe that the interpretation of the second amendment, right now, as far as the current law states and what the supreme court decision and you brought up heller being now the interpretation of the second amendment, you are making the case ess...

>> protect you from crazy people that have guns. >> yeah, so that statement is a complete fabrication from beginning to end. we have reams of research on what laws work and what laws dont and what we know is that states that have stricter guns laws making sure that dangerous people dont get weapons and people dont get dangerous weapons have lower rates of crime. what we know is if you have a go u.n. in your home this is more likely to be used to dill you than kill an intruder. there are people w...

Semi-automatic and turn it into a fully automatic, so clearly thats something we have to look in. >> why do you have to say youre an avid sportsman when youre talking about automatic weapons? today the nra released its first statement since the massacre in las vegas. quote, the nra believes the devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations. but theyre calling on the atf to review whether bump stocks comply with...

A semi automatic rifle into a fully automatic weapon. legal to buy, yet illegal to use. >> the conversion kit is legal when you use it to convert a rifle into a fully automatic obviously then makes it illegal. >> the roboty says the las vegas shooter may have been used both. and firing from the 32nd story into a huge crowd needed little training if any to kill so many. >> drew based on the images we have the the weapons used by the shooter can any of the experts tell what kind of mauvgss the gun...

Come as a shock because he had no record and because he had a lot of money he had everything he needed to acquire what he needed to make these the weapons automatic legally. the difference between a semi automatic one-shot at a time assault rifle. and this fully automatic assault rifle is stunning. >> holy smokes. >> 90 rounds in seconds. >> 9.43 seconds. that is unbelievable. >> polk county florida sheriff grady says in fire power is not only available but what you see here, these legal 100 rou...

Who have been criticizing donald trump. theyre the ones responding like partisan political hacks and the ones dividing us. trump united us, hillary clinton divided us. >> bill: it came quickly. in your piece you talk about the bump stocks, right? when you can take a weapon and make a semi automatic to automatic depending on the casing you have inside the weapon. we ought to be able to find bipartisan agreement on banning such devices. >> absolutely. this is something -- >> bill: what is your sug...