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Continues to fire. what this does not do is fully convert a semiautomatic gun to a fully automatic rifle. what it does instead is as you're leaning on that stock, it makes you pull that trigger faster than humanly possible. it is wildly inaccurate. it is unwieldel, but uncan any the way it simulates automatic fire and it's practically haunting. we went to that nevada shooting range. i want you to take a look at this live fire example and we'll talk about it after the junk. >> so we've got two semiautomatic women's, long guns. one is outfitted with the bump fire stock. >> correct. >> so we just...

>> correct. >> so we want to know the difference between what it's like for you to squeeze the trigger each time and what it's like when the stock fire happens, the bump fire. >> great. we'll start with the semi-auto. i'm going to pull the trigger as fast as i can. so now we'll go ahead and do the bump fire. >> reporter: so you see that there. they're relatively cheap, $150 to $300. easy to find. easy to install. the most frustrating thing about these, the glaring loophole here is because every time your finger comes off of that trigger and pulls it again, they are technically legal. that is s...

So now we'll go ahead and do the bump fire. >> right. so you see that there. they're relatively cheap, about 150 to $3. easy to find, easy to install. but the most frustrating thing about these, the glaring loophole here is because every time your finger comes off that trigger and then pulls it again, they are technically legal. that is still technically a semiautomatic rifle. as we mentioned, wildly inaccurate, but if you have an extended magazine, if you have a scope, if you have a tripod, if you're sitting in an elevated position looking down on thousands of people, what the result was, obv...

Difference between what it's like for you to squeeze the trigger each time and what it's like when the stock fire happens, the bump fire. >> great. we'll start with the semi-auto. i'm going to pull the trigger as fast as i can. so now we'll go ahead and do the bump fire. >> reporter: so you see that there. they're relatively cheap, $150 to $300. easy to find. easy to install. the most frustrating thing about these, the glaring loophole here is because every time your finger comes off of that trigger and pulls it again, they are technically legal. that is still technically a semi-automatic rifl...

Shotguns, and pistols. at this time none of the guns recovered appear to be home made. there were 12 bump fire stocks identified on the firearms in the hotel room. the atf firearms and technology division provides determinations on devices such as bump fire stocks and their legality. the classification of these devices depends on where they mechanically alter the function of the firearm to fire fully automatic. bump fire stocks, while simulating automatic fire do not actually alter the firearm to fire automatically, making them legal under current federal law. it is still being determined whic...