Vegas casinos. Places tens of thousands of Dollars Worth of bets in recent weeks. But why he did this, they simply have no clue. They know he has been acquiring weapons over the past several months. He has bought at gun stores in nevada, possibly outside the state as well. That part of nevada he is from, mesquite, is right on the border. So he could go to other states to try to buy weapons and have them sent back to the gun dealers in nevada 20 do it legally. But The Big Question here is how did he acquire automatic weapons. Youve heard the sounds on the videos of these rapid shots. Machine guns are illegal in the u. S. But its possible to buy conventional semiautomatic weapons, meaning they fire every time you pull the trigger, but just one round and convert them. But that Conversion Process can make the weapons illegal. So the authorities are trying to figure out how he managed to get
his hands on these automatic weapons. He had some of those in the room. He had Sniper Rifles with sc
puerto rico tomorrow. i m joined right now by nbc s hallie jackson at the white house. so what are the president s plans in terms of reacting to this horror? so i think you ve seen some of it already, chris. you ve seen the moment of silence. you ve seen the president scramble the morning plans that he had. he was supposed to hold a deregulation event. instead he came out and delivered that speech. as you noted, calling what happened in las vegas an act of pure evil. this speech was more spiritual in tone than what we ve heard from the president before. he used language about scripture, language about faith that he hasn t always talked about after moments like these. we then saw the president add to his schedule what we re watching right now, which is that moment of silence with the first lady, the vice president and the vice president s wife as well. and then sarah huckabee sanders said now is not the time to be talking about gun control, which here in washington some lawmakers, par