32nd floor were fired. so they found the ar-15-type rifles, at least some of which had these bump stocks attached. then they also found some high powered sniper rifles that have the b ipod legs on the front that allow the weapon to be stabilized. that s what gave him the great deal of fire power that he had. couple of other things i should say these bump stocks are perfectly legal. they are legal because even though you put it on, this is another type of bump stock, the rifle is still firing with a single pull of the trigger. the trigger pulls are just coming very, very fast. infers an effort to outlaw these in congress about four years ago but that effort failed and gun enthusiasts say they want to be able to fire guns in the automatic or automatic style mode for safety range and recreational shooting.
i don t know what to tell you. i don t speak for the other x million people in the country, stephanie. right. so let s start there. that s a good question, right? theed idea of this bump stock being something he could buy legally for $250 that seems to go against the grain of the law that says you are not supposed to have machine guns and fully automatic weapons. that seems to be an interesting starting point. would you agree that seems to be a place where there is opportunity for bipartisanship. it would be interesting to know whether he modified them illegally or bought illegal weapons. if he broke the law in fact in possessing what he has got or what he had that s a fact that would be interesting, too. but it looks like he initial reports are that you can buy these bump stocks legally. we know that, we can get them on the internet. right? so you can turn a gun into a a semiautomatic gun into a fully automatic gun for $250.
things? well, i think everything includes it, yeah. yes. you co congressman, good to see you again. hey, ali. you cosponsored legislation to allow licensed firearms dealers to sell and deliver across state lines. talk to me about whether that when you think about legislation like that, do you think about whether or not it makes it easier or harder for the bad shootings to take place? i understand there are a lot of people who benefit from more convenient gun rules who are completely law-abiding citizens, and they are the majority. but does that come into your mind in that legislation? well, i think, ali, we ll look at that. i mean as they develop how this person got his firearms if there is a loophole or a problem or a an across state lines issue or an ammunition problem as well as mental health all that needs to be evaluated. and if there is a problem then it needs to be addressed. but we don t know that right now. when you talk about a premise that it is an existing law
take a look between us over there. you can see the two hotel rooms. they are very easy to see because the luxor has got all the hotel rooms closed. all the windows closed. mandalay bay. mandalay bay, i m sorry. and those are the two that have been hammered out. they were hit out with a sledge hammer. the 32nd floor, that s the floor where we saw stephen paddock open fire on the 22,000 people below at a country music festival. we are getting new video of outside that hotel room of the shooter, stephen paddock at the mandalay bay. you can see the police yellow tape, a gun on the floor, and debris in the hallway. this is just coming in. as investigators try to figure out why the shooter did what he did, the debate over gun control resurfaces in washington. garrett haake caught up with members of congress today and
and we know that he bought two of these. and we have been told that some of the weapons that were found in his hotel room had these bump stocks attached. now a bump stock, they come in several varieties. they sort of look like this. this particular model, you take the stock, which is the part that goes against your shoulder on a rifle, you take it off and you attach this. what it does is uses the recoil action of the rifle every time the rifle kicks after you first fire it, that kick then causes the trigger until the gun to fire again. so the gun, in essence, once you start it it in essence pulls the trigger itself. as a technical matter the gun is still firing every time the trigger is pulled. now the kick of the gun itself is pulling the trigger so it s possible to get it going up to a very high rate of firing. authorities say that s how some of the rapid fire shots that came out of those windows on the