Ammunition magazines for a rifle, how you could get those things struggled into a nightclub. How do you get the rifle into the nightclub with nobody noticing . Fullsize assaultstyle militarystyle rifle, how do you get that in . We had been told from sunday night into yesterday the killer had used an assaultstyle rifle. But we didnt know much more than that about what weapon he used. Now, though, that logistical question about how somebody could get a rifle, a long gun into a nightclub, it may be at least partially answered because we now know that this assaultstyle rifle was one of these. Its called a sig sauer mcx. Im going to show you a clip of how they market this particular rifle. I will warn you, if youre sensitive to gun imagery, in particular this video this advertisement is a little disturbing given what we now know about how this rifle, this particular model of rifle, was just used inside that nightclub. But i actually think that im sort of willing to risk it being disturbing because i think its helpful to see, its helpful to understanding part of the logistics of what just happened and how this killer pulled it off because of the particular features of this particular gun, including the sig sauer brag in this advertisement. Heres the gun ad, watch. Shooter. Make ready. The sig mcx is here and its unlike anything youve seen or heard. Engineered for 300 blackout. Designed from the ground up to be silenced, light, and short. A new breakthrough in modularity. The sig mcx eclipses everything thats come before it. Its the start of a new era. And its only from sig. That is apparently the rifle that was used at the nightclub shooting this weekend. Thats the way that sig sauer advertises that rifle. Knowing that gun was one of at least two weapons used to kill 49 americans in a dark nightclub this weekend, its a little bit hard to watch that footage of the blackclad shooter Walking Around in a foggy environment, shooting at targets. But if you watch what their advertising about the gun, it does also explain part of how this guy may have gotten that weapon inside the club in the first place. This is a long gun, a fullsized rifle. But one of the things sig sauer brags about for this rifle in particular is it folds up very small. Designed from the ground up to be silenced, light, and short. When they say short, theyre not talking about the length of the barrel. Theyre talking about the back half of the gun, theyre talking about the part of the gun that goes against your shoulder. Theyve got that little graphic there to indicate a folding stock. They sell this gun with all sorts of different attachments and all sorts of different ways you can configure it. They brag on that it comes with a folding stock. The stock on the mcx can be folded or fully extended during its function and operation. It can be interchanged with any of the sig folding socks out there on the market. So theyre proud of the modularity of this rifle. It comes with a folding stock that folds 180 degrees around and lays right alongside the rest of the rifle. So you can fold it up and make it very small. You can also swap out that stock and put on all sorts of different stocks that they sell or that other companies sell, other ones that fold, some of the stocks we sell are telescoping which means they collapse, go down flat without you having to fold them. What folding stocks and telescoping stocks have in common is that when you fold them up or compress them, they make this otherwise long gun short. They make it small. Not handgun size but small enough that conceivably you could conceal it in a coat or something if you wanted to get your fullsized militarystyle Assault Rifle into a crowded nightclub. Now that Law Enforcement says that this sig sauer mcx is the gun used in the orlando nightclub massacre, there are a couple other things about this gun that seem important now in terms of understanding what just happened and what may happen in response to the shooting. This gun is not technically an ar15 rifle. The most Popular AmericanAssault Rifles are generally described as ar15s. This sig sauer is a gun that is substantially similar to an ar15, you can take the top of this gun off and combine it with other parts of an ar15 so its modularly compatible with an ar but its a little bit different. In terms of understanding what happened inside that dark nightclub at 2 00 in the morning sunday and how one guy was able to kill 49 other people and wound at least that many, it helps to know and i think its chilling to know that one of the things that this American Gun Company markets about this gun is that it is super easy to fire. Its easier to fire than an ar15. And it fires faster and with less kick than your standard ar15. If youve ever handled an ar15, if youve ever fired one at a shooting range, i like shooting guns at shooting ranges, i have shot an ar15 a bunch of times. One of the things that is unnerving is that when you hold one and when you fire one, its light enough and you can squeeze off more rounds faster than your standard ar15. Light enough and you can squeeze off more rounds faster than your standard ar15. The operating system contains an upper receiver, there is less impact into the shoulder causing less muzzle clip. Less muzzle flip. Faster followon shots. Less recoil impulse into the shoulder. An ar15 Assault Rifle, most popular assaultstyle rifle in the United States, is frighteningly easy to fire very quickly. It has almost no kick, very easy to handle. This gun that was used in portland we now know its a gun that is designed to have even less kick. Specifically so you can fire it even faster. Yuck fold up the stock to make it super small to hide it inside your coat. They stress over and over again this is a rifle designed for the military and Law Enforcement. They say it was designed to department of defense specifications at the pentagons request. They fall all over themselves to say how much respect they as a company have for the military and for Law Enforcement personnel. They say they make these guns as great as possible because they know Police Officers and soldiers lives are depending on these guns. And then they sell them to the general public. They sell them to anybody who walks in off the street. Theyre legal for just about anyone to buy. In 201314 the orlando nightclub shooter was put on a terrorist watch list by the fbi. The fbi found him suspicious enough to put on that watch list because of two things that happened in pretty quick succession. First the guy apparently made comments to coworkers at his Security Guard job that were alarming enough that his coworkers called the cops on him. He apparently told his coworkers that he had family connections to al qaeda. He also reportedly told his coworkers that he hoped Law Enforcement would someday raid his house in an antiterrorism raid so he could die as a martyr while defending his family from american authorities. So hed said that stuff out loud at work. His coworkers were weirded out of enough they called the cops. The fbi ended up investigating him over those comments. That was their first point of concern. Their second point of concern was this. This was two years ago. This guy was the First American known to have died as an isis suicide bomber in syria. He was a guy from ft. Pierce, florida. And just before he committed his suicide bombing in syria, before going back to syria to commit that attack, he actually spent the last few months of his life at home in his hometown in florida. In ft. Pierce. U. S. Officials say while he was home for those few months in ft. Pierce, florida, right before his Suicide Attack he tried to recruit his muslim friends at home that they should come back to syria with him to also join isis. Ft. Pierce, florida, is immediately adjacent to port lucy where omar mateen lived, next to pga village where omar mateen worked as a Security Guard. These guys were from the same place. When that First American isis suicide bomber blew himself up in syria in 2014, the fbi investigated his friends at home and it turns out his friends at home included omar mateen. And so after that suicide bombing in syria, they questioned omar mateen on several occasions. They put him on a terrorist watch list. And a twris watch list is a real thing. Its not some automatic thing that you end up on because your name pings on a list or because your name looks funny to somebody or you end up in some database without anybody in a human way making a decision about it. The terrorist watch list is a real thing. The fbi makes overt decisions about putting people on that list and taking them off that list. And they put omar mateen on that terrorist watch list for a reason. They investigated him. They asked him questions about these two different things, the things hed said at work and connections to the suicide bomber. Ultimate they decided a uh that inquiry that he wasnt a risk. They closed that inquiry and they took him off the list. After the San Bernardino attacks last year, you might remember democrats in congress tried to pass legislation which would have made it illegal for anybody on a terrorist watch list to buy a gun. This happens to be a widely popular idea among the american people, including among american gun owners, that people on the terrorist watch list shouldnt be allowed to buy guns. Most people think if youre, say, on the nofly list you shouldnt be able to buy an ar15 or sig sauer mcx or even a handgun. But republicans in congress were having none of it. Even right after San Bernardino. Republicans in congress, they want people on the terrorist watch list to continue to be able to buy guns. Even vulnerable republicans up for reelection and not particularly red states, kelly ayotte in new hampshire, rob portman in ohio, ron johnson in wisconsin, they all voted that people on terrorist watch lists should be able to buy guns. Republicans in congress stood united on that in the wake of San Bernardino. But now in the wake of orlando, another prospect is being raised which maybe, who knows, maybe, maybe this time republicans might be able to stomach . Some of them . The fbi asks questions and opens investigations into people for all sorts of reasons. For example, their first interest in omar mateen, their first questioning of him was because coworkers were disturbed by things he said about terrorism and violence at work. That was enough not just to put him on the fbis radar but to send the fbi out to question reserve question him, to assess whether there might be danger there, they took that tip, acted on it, temporarily put him on a terror watch list because of that. The fbi acts on tips. What if the fbi was tipped, what if the fbi was alerted when someone on a terrorist watch list or someone who used to be on a terrorist watch list bought a gun . Republicans are completely enthralled to the nra. And the nra insists that people on terrorist watch lists still be allowed to buy guns. And so maybe its too far for them to go, that people on terrorist watch lists could be stopped from buying guns. Couldnt the fbi just be told if that happened . Couldnt the fbi just be alerted, tipped as a matter of course, if somebody on a terrorist watch list or used to be on a terrorist watch list went and bought a gun . Couldnt they just be told . Apparently the nra says you cant stop them from making the purchase, not with the republican politics weve got right now, and the way the nra owns the republican party. But if you cant stop them from buying the gun, whats the objection to just letting the fbi know . That a suspected terrorist has just bought a gun . Omar mateen reportedly bought his handgun and sig mcx Assault Rifle 12 days before he committed this massacre in orlando. 12 days. Had the fbi been tipped to that purchase because hed previously been on a terrorist watch list for good reason, could they have seen this coming over the course of those 12 days . Could they have intervened somehow . Could they have noticed somehow over the course of those 12 days . The department of justice says it is now looking into this possibility. The Deputy Attorney general telling reporters, the doj might look to adopt excuse me, this is me quoting the new york times. The Deputy Attorney general telling reporters on monday that the Justice Department might look to adopt new procedures that would alert counterterrorism investigators if someone who had been on a terror watch list tried to buy a gun. When omar mateen bought the two weapons he used in the attacks 12 days before he did it, the Deputy Attorney general told reporters one would have liked to know about it. By one she means the fbi, who had previously talked to this guy three different times because of two different instances of concern. And so this is part of the way this country is responding to the orlando massacre. Will there be policy changes . Will republicans and the nra allow anything to be done to try and head off the next attack like this . The terrorist who killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in orlando did it with two guns. A handgun and a sig sauer mcx rifle. If you dont know what that is, i urge you to google it. See it for yourself. This man had been investigated by the fbi for months. But we couldnt stop him from buying a powerful weapon that he used to slaughter americans in large numbers. Lets get this straight. We have reached the point where people cannot board airplanes with full bottles of shampoo. But people being watched by the fbi for suspected terrorist links can buy a gun with no questions asked. That is absurd. We have to make it harder for people who want to kill americans to get their hands on weapons of war that let them kill dozens of innocents. It is absolutely true, we cannot prevent every tragedy. But we know that consistent with the Second Amendment there are commonsense steps that could reduce gun violence and could reduce the lethality of somebody who intends to do other people harm. People with possible ties to terrorism who arent allowed on a plane shouldnt be allowed to buy a gun. Enough talking about being tough on terrorism. Actually be tough on terrorism. Stop making it easy as possible for terrorists to buy assault weapons. President obama and Hillary Clinton today both talking about the kind of small steps, lowest common denominator gun reform youd think might be possible after the worst mass shooting in american history. That said, republicans in congress have given no sign so far today that they will even consider it. Used to be that this is the kind of conversation, this is the kind of talk we would have after Mass Shootings and terrorist attacks. We would have fights about policy and about access to guns and whether or not congress would take any action whatsoever to try to curtail this sort of thing in the future. This is a little of what is going on postorlando. But politically were in a different world now. Politically the major thing that is now going on in the wake of the worst terrorist attack on u. S. Soil since 9 11, the worst mass shooting in american history, politically whats going on now is only a little bit about policy. And in the world that were in now has to be substantially about the republican partys president ial candidate and what it is doing to the country right now to have someone in that position even suggesting what he is suggesting in the wake of this attack. With booking. Coms ran of properties, rebel and key can wing it all the way to jordan and chelseas weing. Road trip. Mble there she is. Uh oh, oh, oh, oh, what . Sosoere is our road trip itinerary. Whats this . A nch of differe places. Nah, bro. We gotta go offript. Rip to shreds every motel, cabin and teepee, betweehere and the wedng. Now get out of my at. Alright. screams road trip whahhhh hahaha. Road trip we have to be very strong in terms of looking at you have many, many people, thousands of people already in our country that are sick with hate. And people that are around them, muslims know who they are largely, they know who they are, they have to turn them in, they know who they are, they see them, they have to report these people. These people are out there, many, many people are out there with worse intentions than what this guy had, worse. Theyre out there. People in his community and their community, they know hot people are. In some cases theyre married to them. They know who these people are. Almost in every case, they know who they are. They brag about it, they talk about it. Other people know. People knew that this guy was going to create a bad act. They have to turn them in. If they dont turn them in, we are never going to be able to get along. Its going to be an impossible situation. The muslims have to turn people in. The muslims you will find out, all sorts of things will be said about this guy, gee, why didnt we get him . They have to turn people in. Youre going to find out with this savage that did this horrible thing over the weekend that many people said, oh, i knew that was going to happen. Theyve got to report them. Because the muslims are the ones that see whats going on. The muslims are the ones that have to report them. And if they dont report them, then there have to be consequences to them. Mr. Trump, thank you for making the time on a busy day. Oh, all right mr. Trump, thank you, sir. That was absolutely a totally normal thing for a president ial candidate to say. Nightnight, see you later, thanks. The republican candidate for president is now insisting repeatedly that muslims as a community in this country are the guilty ones because of this terrorist attack. There must be cons givens for the Muslim Community as a whole because the Muslim Community is knowingly harboring terrorists. Muslims know about this before it happens, the community is guilty, all muslims are aiding and abetting crime busy terrorists in this country this is a remarkable thing for anybody to say in public life. This is telling americans who are muslim, if you are muslim and you are american, we want you to know that we think you are guilty of something by virtue of the fa