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Weapon recoils, the inertia of that recoil allows it to come back and cycle quicker where you leave your trigger finger in place at one time at one position. and it allows that weapon to cycle at a fast rate. it is just another way of taking a semi automatic rifle and turning it into a fully automatic machine gun. >> sandra: it doesn't actually do so, right? it doesn't become classified as a fully automatic weapon with this conversion kit. but it fires as one, right? is that the distinction to be made? >> that's a loophole. actually what it is, it's just a different device that allows a semi a...

A semi automatic rifle's rate of fire to that of an automatic. >> there has been a lot of talk about what we can do, where we can come together, and i think this issue represents a very likely common ground, if there is one. >> sandra: joining me is doug schoen and molly hemingway, both fox news contributors. we're all required to become experts on these guns, molly. something you know a lot about. a few days ago, not many of us knew what a bump stock was. there is an important distinction to be made here. it does not, once used in converting those semi automatic weapons, it doesn't become int...

A semi automatic rifle into a fully automatic weapon. legal to buy, yet illegal to use. >> the conversion kit is legal when you use it to convert a rifle into a fully automatic obviously then makes it illegal. >> the roboty says the las vegas shooter may have been used both. and firing from the 32nd story into a huge crowd needed little training if any to kill so many. >> drew based on the images we have the the weapons used by the shooter can any of the experts tell what kind of mauvgss the guns were made? >> yeah, you saw the picture the one they call the bump stock slide stock. same thing i...

Calls it a loophole. this will make even less sense. kits you can buy online to turn a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic weapon. legal to buy, yet illegal to actually use. >> anybody with a basic machining skill set could go ahead and convert a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic rifle. the conversion kit itself is legal. but when you use it to convert a rifle into fully automatic obviously makes it illegal firearm. >> reporter: the las vegas shooter may have used both. firing from the 32nd story into a huge crowd needed little training, if any, to kill so many. any attempt for...

Semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic rifle. the conversion kit itself is legal but when you use it to convert a rifle into fully automatic, makes it illegally to fire. >> little training was needed, if any, to kill so many. any attempts for regulation on guns is likely to go nowhere with a republican-led congress, but even when democrats had control, a bill calling for tighter background checks failed. two democratic state legislators introduced bills to ban sales of assault sales, both bills died