washington. garrett? reporter: gillian, that is the biggest different this time around in the gun control debate. republicans and democrats have common ground when it comes to bump stocks. this allows him to use his semiautomatic weapons as fully automatic machine guns. they are currently legal due to interpretation of the gun control act by the obama administration a group of nine gop senators is asking the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives to review the regulation. in a letter to the head of the atf on friday, the senator said in part, unfortunately we re all now keenly aware how this device operates. we believe this renewed review and determination will keep our citizens safe and insure that federal law is enforced. earlier this week the nra may have paved the way for that request when it announced it supported that idea as well. what the nra has said, we ought to take a look at that, see if it is in compliance with federal law, and it s worthy of
internationally. and i can assure you that this is an international investigation at this point. and, yet, they re resorting to something as crude as putting up billboards. i have never seen this before in 34 years of policing. we have seen billboards used for locating missing persons at certain times. a billboard here. a billboard there. but it shows you that the leads are drying up and this is frightening. eric: especially face is all over television and every newspaper in the country. look, he had to learn somehow to shoot these weapons. they actually are pretty sophisticated if you don t know anything about them. so where did he practice? who practiced with him? who knows when he practiced because you just don t show up in a mandalay bay room, knock the windows out and puts these things together and start opening fire. you are absolutely right. this is going to be a major part of the investigation. the atf is really, really good at locating where weapons are manufactured and
much alive. it s clear every time we get a news bulletin like this that mueller is taking his job very, very seriously, that he s casting his net wide. he s staffed up with top attorneys at the beginning. so this is something not to forget about, keep an eye on. absolutely. let s move on and let s talk about the horrible events in las vegas because the nra is now coming out in the wake of another mass murder calling for a review of the types of weapons used. and here s what they re saying. they re saying, the national rifle association is calling on the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law. the nra believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations. and they re talking, you know, about the the bump clip. the bump stock. is that an attempt, do you think, to dodge legislation on capitol hill by asking t
lot of very safe gun owners in this country who worry that when things like this happen it tarnishes all of them and there s some attempt to take away their second amendment rights. at the same time there are others who say maybe reasonable controls can be implemented. we re hearing a lot of republicans talk about that right now. and we re hearing the nra say, look, maybe it s worth the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives having another look at these bump stocks to see whether they should be regulated. however yeah, hold on the nra did ask to loosen up a whole bunch of regulations. the nra was trying to trade bump stocks in order to get everybody in this country allowed to carry concealed weapons. sure. i was struck by one of the guys you spoke to in that package, ali, and the man who said there s this argument that you re not going to stop a crazy person. you re not going to stop a bad person no matter how much you try there s always going to be rapist
although a number of those were outright terrorist attacks n after oval office session yesterday with attorney general loretta lynch and fbi director james comey, president obama argued in effect keeping guns from those who shouldn t have them, there is no violation of the second amendment by law-abiding gun owners. we have frequent mass shootings that far exceeds other countries in frequency. and although it is my strong belief that for to us get our complete arms around the problem, congress needs to act, what i asked my team to do is see what more we could do to strengthen our enforcement and prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands. reporter: among actions being announced today, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, requires anyone selling a firearm in a store, online, in a gun show to be licensed by federal government. this could be apply to sellers offering two guns and that seller would have to screen his