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How-to, but it sounds like it's pretty ease toy do that. can you explain if it's ease toy convert a rifle into -- semi automatic into a fully automatic? >> sure. well, there are a number of ways to do it. in terms of fully automatic fire, there are some accessories that are available on the market such as a bump fire stock or slide fire. that is an accessory that can be used to modify a weapon like an ar-15 to allow it to fire in rapid succession or automatic fire. >> sam, hold on a second. i just want to stop you right there. >> yes. >> so automatic weapons are not legal, but the accessory to...

It is perfectly legal by definition. >> sam, sam, how is that possible? how -- why would it ever be legal for regular civilians to be able to turn their rifle into an automatic weapon, when automatic weapons are banned? >> well, the automatic weapons themselves are banned. in this particular case, the accessory is nothing -- nothing about it makes it illegal in terms of what it does to the actual firearm, to modify whether it's the trigger mechanism or some other feature like a drop-in that makes it fully automatic. this particular accessory uses the gun's own inertia to go or slide, if you wi...

This stage until you can start to close them out with sufficient evidence. but apparently has a girlfriend who has left the country so also curious about her. >> chief ramsey, take a listen to this 911 dispatch audio. >> i'm inside the mandalay bay on the 31st floor i can hear the gunfire from one floor above us. >> is there a unit? >> repeating be advised automatic fire, fully automatic fire from elevated position. take cover. >> that's correct. fully automatic fire. >> chief, explain for our viewers not familiar with the difference between semi automatic and automatic fire what the differenc...

People are almost respectfully glancing over from the pedestrian bridges here, a few will walk up, look over and keep moving. the last time i experienced vegas like this was as a young reporter in 1980. i covered my first story i covered here was the fire at the mgm grand hotel that killed 85 people. this is a very, very similar feeling. a somber feeling. a place where people go to have fun. and this huge cloud, obviously, of grief and anguish is hovering over this place as it is much of the country today, brian. >> absolutely, lester. they will be so anxious to get this behind them and point ...

Sounded like a fully automatic, you know, man portable machine gun, like a 223, like a soldier would carry, select fire usually. that's fully automatic fire there. that could be achieved in a variety of ways. the most common way, of course, is to have a submachine gun. the second way is what you were just discussing with defense counsel there is to have a semi-automatic gun originally made as a semi-automatic gun that's converted, re-engineered to be fully automatic. that usually is criminally done. atf enforces that law. but that can be done. there are some other ways to get fire like that. o...