BELLEVUE, Wash. --- The ATF announced Tuesday they recovered almost 50 rifles, shotguns and pistols after a deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday.
Attached to a dozen of the weapons were "bump stocks," a product that is not new or illegal.
The shots raining down from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay into the country music festival is a sound many won't forget.
"Currently 47 firearms have been recovered," said Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder from the ATF's San Francisco Field Division.
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The firearms were recovered from three different locations -- the gunman Stephen Paddock's room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas and at his homes in Mesquite, Nev., and outside Reno.
The ATF identified 12 bump-stocks attached to several of the firearms inside the hotel room.
According to its website, the company 'Slide Fire' claims to have invented, patented and developed 'bump fire systems.'
It's an attachment used as a stock replacement that gun owners say allows a fast rate of fire.
"It’s replacing the stock on an AR rifle," said Jason Cazes, owner of Low Price Guns in Bellevue. "It has a slider mechanism where the recoil causes the finger to go back and forth to hit the trigger repeatedly to simulate fully automatic."
According to the ATF, it's not illegal.
"The ATF Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division provides determination on devices such as bump fire stocks and their legality," said Snyder at a media briefing in Las Vegas. "The classification of these devices depends on whether they mechanically alter the function of the firearm to fire fully automatic. Bump fire stocks—while simulating automatic fire--do not actually alter the firearm to fire automatically making them legal under current federal law."
The bump stocks weren't well known among the general public until the shooting and aren't sold widely.
Cazes did sell the bump stocks four years ago, but doesn't carry them in his store anymore.
"It just wasn’t a popular item. It wasn’t something that a lot of people got or in demand that people wanted here," said Cazes. "I haven’t sold many here at all--the market isn’t here. I don’t know who the market is for that."
Regardless of who's trying to buy -- the governor of Washington wants it off the market.
Gov. Jay Inslee issuing the following statement:
The mass shooting is difficult for even gun owners to process.
"It's very upsetting. It's very sad. And it saddens me in my heart," said Cazes. "But I know that there's no law that can be enacted to change a person that’s evil."