Machine guns, rapid fire semi-automatics legal in Nevada, Ohio

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Firearms experts say the rate of fire Stephen Paddock used in Sunday's slaughter in Las Vegas suggests at least one weapon had rapid-fire capabilities.

And while machine guns are heavily regulated by state and federal law, there are several methods to modify semi-automatic weapons to fire at a nearly automatic rate that are perfectly legal in both Nevada and Ohio.

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