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Political violence? >> reporter: well, there are five homes just in this area. four of them we can't get to because the fbi has the area shut down. the one neighbor said one thing they never talked about was politics. he saw the bernie sanders sign up front, but he said most of the time they talked about home repairs and how the weather was going. now, there was a time the sheriff's department had to come out here because of shots fired call. that was because he was using a deer rifle in the backyard. a neighbor became concerned. they came out here and realized he was doing everything legally ...

President trump, pro jill stain and pro bernie sanders. did his neighbors say whether there were any signs that could have predicted that his political anger would turn into political violence in. >> reporter: well, there is five homes just in this area. four of them we can't get to because the fbi has the area shut down. the one neighbor said one thing they never talked about was politics. he saw the bernie sanders sign up front, but he said most of the time they talked about home repairs and how the weather was going. now, there was a time the sheriff's department had to come out here becaus...

We received information that they were engaged in buying and stockpiling firearms, converting weapons to machine guns. so we began an investigation and determined in fact they were doing exactly that. people do, in fact, have a right to bear arms. that's not the business of atf. we have no issue with that. however, there are laws. to take a semi automatic weapon and convert it to be a machine gun, you have to have the prior permission of the united states government. >> david koresh and the group at mt. carmel did increasingly believe, as the years went by, that at the end of time, they would ...

Supreme court case law on the second amendment. i sat down with cruz at cpac and he told m me aweapons are n common use and therefore they cannot be banned. >> and let's be clear. most people misunderstand the word assault weapon. it is not a machine gun or fully automatic weapon. it is essentially a deer rifle. a semi automatic weapon with cosmetic features that make it look scary and yet politicians in washington want to show how tough they are on crime so they want to ban some 4 million guns that law abiding americans have chose ton use to protect their home. >> shannon: what is the future ...

This debate is really getting into the heated part of this. we expect we'll get legislation out of the senate on this, possibly this week. keurs tan the president takes his message today out there. how do you think it will be received and politically is it something that can pass? >> well, i mean the question of whether he can pass i think it would be definitely a steep climb. politically i don't know a lot of americans who really have a problem with banning assault weapons. unfortunately assault weapons aren't really the problem, because -- unless you senior a semi automatic weapon an assault...