Atf Experts News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Involved ammunition, tripods for sniper rifles and what we think were probably two 23 caliber and a 308 caliber semiautomatic weapon. now here's what's interesting about that ch. the laws about semiautomatic weapons and automatic weapons are confusing even for the experts but the bottom line is that a semiautomatic weapon is technically legal under federal law, yes, legal in las vegas in nova scotia. states will regulate semiautomatic weapons. now if you convert a semiautomatic into a fully automatic weapon, a machine gun, that is illegal. but here comes the tricky part. exactly how much of it...

That helps us to be able to move on and gather the facts and validate that fact. >> we hope to hear from the investigators on the ground there. the leaders said we still don't know for sure and of course that press conference is still ongoing. but, tom, even if this was caused by lightning, there have been a number of other fires at black churches recently. how can agents determine whether or not these fires are linked? >> well first of all, what matthew said is a big part of this. the atf experts working with the fbi experts determine first of all arson or other causes. and they start with th...

Home not far away from the vice president's resolution dense in northwest washington. what are they looking for now, the atf experts and others going through the rubble if you will over there? >> arson cases and arson scenes are very complex. it may take days and even weeks, oftentimes to sift through the rubble and look for the very critical crucial link. the to link the suspect back to the crime. and let's remember this is not the first time that we've been able to recover trace amounts of dna to link a suspect to an arson. >> even though it was heavily, the fire was very intense, they did f...

To wait until thursday. the fire has destroyed at least 500 homes and is to blame for at least two deaths. investigators have called in federal atf experts to help determine just what started the fire. there were some suspicions. ive , is all we humans get. we spend them on treadmills. we spend them in traffic. and if we get lucky, really lucky, it dawns on us to go spend them in a world where a simple sunrise can still be magic. twenty-five thousand mornings. make sure some of them are pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. ♪ there you go. come on, let's play! [ male announcer ] t...

Boston marathon yesterday or why, just over 24 hours after the explosion, there is a lot of new information tonight about the devices used in the attack. about to exekt from the investigation. there were two explosive devices which exploded yesterday. no more along the route or city of boston. the devices appear to have consists of explosive and shrapnel put into pressure cookers. they have recovered black nylon bags at the sights of both devices. they are believed to have been used to transport the devices to the scene. what happens next is that every single fragment of bomb material recovere...