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The bump. >> exactly. that is huge loophole that allows you to convert something from an automatic gun. and i will be putting in a bill to out law those kits. >> thank you so much, congresswoman. we'll learning much more tonight about some of the 58 people who lost their lives in sunday night's massacre. heath heather alvarado was a mother of three. michelle vo. curt vontillo was a father and grandfather from california. he was a truck driver who owned his own businesses.

Is the armament and what kind of equipment and, you know, all of these issues. but we never -- we never really want to address it, anyway. so, yeah, very simple to modify a semiautomatic long barrel gun into a fully automatic, which essentially is what he did. and it's not illegal until you use it. and in this case, he determined that he was going to go out in a blaze of glory, either suicide, self-inflicted, or suicide by cop. and either way, he knew he wasn't going to be charged with a violation of modifying these weapons. >> mike, do you want to jump in? >> i'm just going to say, i'm sure t...

Sk and we understand that he had video cameras inside the room and just outside the room. now, authorities don't believe that those cameras were used to broadcast out, so that someone else could see what was going on, but they certainly have some video from that. and they are reviewing that video. there is also bump stocks that were in the room. now, what those are are significant, because it allows you to out them on a gun and that gun can fire much more quickly, quick enough, very similar, for example, to an automatic gun. a gun that's firing automatic rounds, which obviously, over 9 to 11 m...

It's a dodge more than anything else. are there solutions and possibly laws that could be considered, absolutely. bearing in mind that gun violence and violence general has many causes, the plens of guns, mental illness, but guns are one factor and with respect to this shooter in las vegas, we know for example, these bump stocks that he had that he outfitted apparently more than one gun with, is an item that is legal to buy, but could easily be regulated. that is a simple public policy fix and i've yet to hear any argument for why these bump stocks should be available to civilians. >> i had a ...

In the military. he was an overseas iraq veteran. there might be a case of ptsd. i'm not trying to build a defense for this guy, but, look, he got a general discharge, which is one of five categories of discharge in the military that suggests he didn't meet certain stdard. one could be a mental health standard. he went awol a couple times in the military. looks like there is a history of ongoing mental health issues which what was just reported was perhaps a domestic situation with his girlfriend, you start to add this up. a few pounds here, a few pound here. you get a heavyweight mental healt...