there is new data from the cdc that reveals eight in ten murders in the u.s. involve a firearm. we are about to show you, small changes in these weapons are making guns more deadly, and mistreats more dangerous. to see for ourselves, we went to the atf lab right here in the nation s capital. what kind of gun are we firing? glock 17. norah: this type of gun on its own is legal. but a simple device can make it more dangerous and illegal. norah: explained what a glock switch is. so, these are actually referred to as machine gun conversion devices. you can see some of these are mass-produced, metallic made, and some of these are additive materials, 3d printed, and this is what you will hear referred to as a switch. norah: the conversion devices are small and inexpensive. they cost as little as $20, but can change a handgun to fire 15 rounds in under two seconds. [gunfire] these are both three pretty
to it in terms of what all plays out within these five minutes. that s a really good explanation of the full events there. we re going to dig in to a few of those moments. a little deeper now with me now is cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller. john this is officer wilkes body came. i m just going to play this for a second more and freeze it almost right away. the first thing i want to point out to people is the guns. officer wilk is carrying a handgun officer galloway the long gun the importance there. so this is the glock 17. it has a 15 round capacity. this is what officer will has been trained on in the police academy. he s just four tours of duty out of there. cj has the colt m four patrol rifle. that s a 30 round magazine firing essentially military round 762 type rounds. ironically this is the same weapon that the shooter inside has, but they don t know that yet. as kate explained these two officers and only these two
handprint. it looked like a perfect handprint of a human hand. a left hand? yes. tara was right-handed. yes. was it suicide or could it be homicide? jones turned all of it over in his mind. he even handled the gun himself. you physically put a glock in your own mouth? yeah. unloaded, i hope. of course. the medical examiner, however, had ruled tera s death suicide the day after she was found. and the lid on this case might have been shut then and there. but jones hesitated. it was written as a suicide, unless i came up with something pretty contradictory to that then my job was to write it up as a suicide, closed case. why didn t you? i just couldn t do it. there was just something about it. something about it started stinking. after three weeks of investigation, instead of closing the case, jones asked
albuquerque police officer, levi chavez, called 9-1-1 from his own home. baby, please wake up. please. he told police he had found his wife lying in a pool of blood in their bed. in a panic, levi chavez begged for help. they are on their way. levi is it going to be easier if you go to another room? i cannot leave her. okay. oh my god. aaron jones was a detective with the sheriff s department in los lunas. when i got a call from our sergeant that a police officer s wife had been shot. it was just after 9pm when jones got to the chavez home. it was disturbing, there was a young, handsome police officer, a young, beautiful wife. joan saw tera lying on the bed with a gunshot wound to her head. and he found this glock 17 by her body. it was the same gun levi said he had given her for protection. it was a service weapon? it was a service weapon. that he had left at home? yes. and on the night stand, a