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Healing garden springs up after Las Vegas shooting | 2:14
Volunteers have come together to construct the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden as a result of the tragic mass shooting that happened Oct. 1, 2017. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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Nurses describe the chaos of tending to hundreds of wounded patients | 3:33
Nurses at University Medical Center describe treating hundreds of victims in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting that killed 59. Brett Kelman/The Desert Sun
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Memorial grows on the Strip for Las Vegas massacre victims | 1:03
A small memorial is growing on the Las Vegas Strip in remembrance of the 59 people who died in the Sunday massacre. Andrea Ybarra-Rojas and her daughter, Anya, 7, explain why they stopped by Tuesday evening, Oct. 3, 2017. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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Body-camera footage of shooting in Las Vegas | 3:00
Las Vegas Metro Police have released footage from the body cameras worn by officers responding to the scene of the shooting Oct. 2, 2017.
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Emergency-room doctor describes helping victims of Las Vegas shooting | 1:21
Emergency Medicine Doctor Daniel Inglish of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas, talks Oct. 3, 2017, about working all night on victims of the Las Vegas shooting that were admitted to his hospital. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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Las Vegas shooting: Former colleague gives blood in honor of friend killed at concert | 1:44
Paul Ford, a retired police sergeant from the Manhattan Beach Police Department, stands in line Oct. 3, 2017, to give blood in Las Vegas in honor of his friend, Rachael Parker, who was killed at a concert there Oct. 1. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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Victim recalls Las Vegas shooting | 1:08
Brian Kip was at the music festival and said he ran after hearing and seeing gunshots spraying across the crowd on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. Video by Nick Oza/azcentral.com
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Nurse helped Las Vegas wounded in hospital | 2:10
Jon Dimaya, a Las Vegas nurse, triaged victims of the Las Vegas massacre as they were admitted to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center Sunday night, October 1, 2017, after a gunman opened fire on a country music festival. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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Pray vigil at Las Vegas City Hall | 0:41
People attended a prayer vigil outside Las Vegas City Hall to honor the 59 people who died and more than 527 who were injured in the Las Vegas shooting on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. Nick Oza/azcentral.com
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Man heard shots, helped concert goers | 1:23
John Hammond, who lives in an apartment complex very close to the location of the massacre at Mandalay Bay, recounts hearing the shots and then opening his apartment complex to concert goers running in fear down his street. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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Joe Thomas and Elizabeth Reitz describe hearing of the Las Vegas shooting | 2:20
Joe Thomas and Elizabeth Reitz give an emotional interview about hearing the news of their friends who were barricaded inside Mandalay Bay when the Las Vegas shooting occurred Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting: Dixie GunWorx | 1:31
St. George gun shop owner Chris Michel said he sold a gun earlier this year to Stephen Paddock, the 64-year-old Mesquite resident believed to have been the gunman in a mass shooting late Sunday that left more than 50 people dead.
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Sunrise Medical Center treats 180 Las Vegas shooting victims | 1:09
Arizona Republic reporter Yihyun Jeong is at Sunrise Medical Center in Las Vegas after the deadly mass shooting Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. The facility has treated 180 victims, 14 of which have died, and has administered 50 surgeries. Nick Oza/azcentral
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Witness to Las Vegas shooting | 2:39
Anthony Luca, 30, Las Vegas, NV, was attending the country music concert across the street from Mandalay Bay when gunshots rang out. He describes the chaos, running for cover and then helping a wounded man into an ambulance. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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How the Las Vegas shooting unfolded | 2:17
A motion graphic explaining how the events unfolded when Stephen Paddock opened fire from his hotel room on concert goers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Healing garden springs up after Las Vegas shooting
Nurses describe the chaos of tending to hundreds of wounded patients
Memorial grows on the Strip for Las Vegas massacre victims
Body-camera footage of shooting in Las Vegas
Emergency-room doctor describes helping victims of Las Vegas shooting
Las Vegas shooting: Former colleague gives blood in honor of friend killed at concert
Victim recalls Las Vegas shooting
Nurse helped Las Vegas wounded in hospital
Pray vigil at Las Vegas City Hall
Man heard shots, helped concert goers
Joe Thomas and Elizabeth Reitz describe hearing of the Las Vegas shooting
Las Vegas shooting: Dixie GunWorx
Sunrise Medical Center treats 180 Las Vegas shooting victims
Witness to Las Vegas shooting
How the Las Vegas shooting unfolded
From Backpage.com to Mo Money Pawn, Arizonans have been searching websites and stores to learn how to obtain a “bump stock,” the rifle attachment used by gunman Stephen Paddock in the Last Vegas shooting.
Since Tuesday, when Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo announced that Paddock had used a bump stock in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, interest has escalated.
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Henry Escobar, gun manager at Mo Money Pawn, said the only device available at the central Phoenix store is attached to an AR-15. The last time a stop was sold by itself was more than a month ago.
When the shop had multiple in stock, the device wasn’t in demand, he said.
“They weren’t as popular; they sat there for the longest time, and we actually marked them down just to get them moving,” Escobar said.
No regulation now, but that may change
He said that anyone could buy a bump stock; they are not regulated. Most people use the device for recreational purposes.
“I think (people) just want to buy them now because if they make them illegal, they’ll be worth double, triple than they are being sold now,” Escobar said.
The White House and the National Rifle Association signaled Thursday that they are open to the idea of regulating the devices, which Paddock used to rapidly fire bullets on a crowd of concertgoers Sunday night.
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Some lawmakers have proposed congressional legislation for bump stocks, while the NRA and others said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should issue new regulations.
Bump stock prices spike in Arizona
On Backpage.com, bump stocks are being advertised from $150 to $800.
Escobar said generally the stocks they sell go for a little over $100.
David Beatty said he posted an ad on Backpage, offering one of his ten bump stocks for $500, as an experiment.
“I just wanted to see what the frenzy was doing and what the market was there,” Beatty said. “If I don’t sell any, I don’t care.”
He said he has received multiple responses and only one person has said the cost is stopping them from buying it. The only other reason was that ammo would be more expensive because the bump stock would burn through it faster.
Originally he had bought the stocks from the manufacturer Slide Fire. On Thursday, the website stated that the company had “decided to temporarily suspend taking new orders in order to provide the best service with those already placed.”
Those who want to order will have to wait until Slide Fire announces that it is again taking orders, according to the statement.
‘Most people didn’t know they existed’
Beatty said he has been in the gun manufacturing business for about 30 years. He still builds rifles and said he is licensed to make parts for hundreds of companies.
“When (bump stocks) came out, there was a huge demand, then it dropped off,” he said. “Then they came out with some other model, then it kicked up some, then it dropped off.
“Most people didn’t know they existed, but now (the shooting) really brought it to their attention.”
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The bump stock can be attached to a semi-automatic rifle and replaces the regular stock. It slides easily back and forth while the gun is being fired, using the kickback — the “bump” — the shooter feels while firing.
Beatty said he has known people who can take the attachment out of the box and know exactly how to use it, while others have to practice multiple times.
“It’s pretty easy to learn; it just helps if you know the theory behind it,” Beatty said.
Includes information from USA Today.
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