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It makes a semiautomatic weapon fire as if its fully automatic. you can buy them online for 100 to $200. the las vegas shooter has some of them on several of his weapons. it appears he may have used them when the video that makes it sound like he was firing an automatic weapon, even though we dont know an automatic weapon was found in his hotel suite. 58 people died. 500 injured. some critically. the bump stock is a gadget feels like lawmakers and the president might actually concede maybe shoul...

Las vegas as a whole, responders, the police department, everyone. you could tell people were doing everything they could to keep people safe. to answer your question, we dont ever step on stage and think to ourselves something like this could happen. we are all so blessed and live in this country where we literally take safety almost for granted sometimes because of the men and women that fight for our freedom. it is unfortunate these types of things have now become our reality. >> yeah. ill sa...

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...

There are companies that sell you modification kits to make sure semiautomatic weapon fire as if it were an automatic weapon. tom thanks so much. if youre curious about the paper records in west virginia, the paper records on guns, look at a gq article from a few years back, charlie houser runs this warehouse down there in wfprima facie west virginia he has it stored in his head where those records would be stored there. you can only imagine what will be lost if he retires. were looking at the a...

Station. you can take it to the police station and you can just drop it off there. and he said -- he started to laugh. >> could such a precise memory 2 1/2 years later be trusted completely? that would become an issue. still, two shootings less than three months apart. perhaps insurance was the motive, said the prosecution. the creamers kept policies for heart attacks, for cancer, even for their dog, about $1 million in all. enough for murder? but motive wasnt at the heart of the prosecutions ca...

Ahshin farashahi replied -- >> how many times after an accident that youve said to yourself or someone had said, oh, my god. i cant believe i did that. thats the essence of an accident. and just because its an accident, that its unlikely, that its a freak accident does not mean that its murder. >> to the jury the choice seemed relatively straightforward. >> i dont think anybody on the jury really wanted to say this man did it. >> of course, for the jury, and these members of the jury that gather...

Because two things. the plane is flying on a legal air route at a correct altitude in civil aviation, and it gets brought down by illegal weapon fire, by who aever it is, we ar waiting for the final conclusion. that is the reality of the situation. what ikeo has to look at now is why, once those other airliners from the ukrainians, when aircraft had been brought down they didnt constituinstitute t closure they did yesterday. the issue is why was ukraine allowed to keep that air space open for as...

And his weapons officer sits in the seat to his right. behind him is the attorney that okays any weapon fire. so thats how it functions in the military. im not -- im really not privy to the c.i.a. missions. >> do you have a problem with the idea of this power to be judge, jury and executioner set in the white house without any judicial oversight? >> well, i dont think thats the case. because like i said, we have an attorney standing behind the weapons officer that approves any weapons fired. so ...

miguel marquez is joining us. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: it sounds like an accident. they were training late at night. it may have been a live fire exercise. it sounds like there was fairly intense training. these are two that provide close air support for marines on the ground. they were training for afghanistan, as you said. and they trained very, very hard at night and its possible that it was just an accident. the marines are saying that they collided in the air. obvio...

Al-zawahiri is the first official welcoming to the group. the muslim brotherhood is calling for egypts ruling generals to sack the military appointed government. muslim brotherhood controls theory half the seats in the new parliament -- nearly half the seats in the new parliament and said the parliament failed to manage the deteriorating economic situation. arab league official says representatives will discuss this weekend whether to recognize syrias main opposition group as the countrys legiti...