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Assault rifles like these are relatively light and easy to use. >> could i potentially to use this gun in an afternoon. >> you could potentially learn how to use this gun in two minutes. >> the couple tried to alter one rifle to make it fully automatic but their attempts failed. they also used illegal high capacity magazine clips. the state of california says a magazine can only hold ten rounds. the shooters had magazines that can hold 30 and they had them taped together. when one magazine finished all they had to do was flip it and use the next one. >> investigators took security and financia...

Presidential campaign, obviously, but what concerns me not only as a journalist, but as a citizen and grand father, i don't want people pulling pins and grenades to throw them in unknown place, and making it much worse than it is. and it is hard to know where where to begin, but if you a start, getting the assault guns under control is a place that we have to stop and look at. when you look at the pictures of the access leelly to the lethal weapons, it goes beyond saying that we have the second amendment. at some point we have to have a conversation about it at least. i have said it as i have ...

Said a year or two ago, i don't foresee that trend happening. big money lobbyists, and the special interest groups and the groups that control the nra are controlling the local legislatures and our congress such that we cannot get reasonable gun legislation through the congress or through the state legislatures, and this president, president obama propose ed proposed a number of meaningful, and very reasonable solutions towards curtailing the proliferations of guns and not one of them was able to get to the floor. s senator dianne feinstein put a ban on assault guns, and it was dead on arrival...

>> it's like an old agatha christie play. everyone goes to a house somewhere and they start disappearing. nobody thinks they can think about that. can't touch that. were dpoing to do the 30-round magazines. can't even think about that. then we thought the bleakest possible, maybe we could do something about background checks. this person was obviously disturbed who shot those kids in connecticut. that's apparently disappearing from the screen. >> it's worse than that. the nra is now trying to gut the provision that makes gun trafficking a federal offense. >> which was the softy. the the easies...

Because there's a bunch of filibusters out there saying we don't want to have to have a vote. >> look, a lot of it is also on the democratic side. harry reid said i don't want to bring up assault guns because he knows he doesn't have the votes here. >> 40 votes or less. >> sure. it looks like it's going to be defeated one way or the other. so in a sense it doesn't matter if ted cruz and others are blocking it from coming to a vote. they can kill it in the house. they can kill it in any number of ways. the point is the nra, the gun lobby -- >> why don't they want a vote? >> why don't they want ...