ahead on today's explained. Gun violence surge during the pandemic. Even now that

we're inching our way out of the pandemic, the shootings haven't abated and as

if you didn't already have enough to worry about there's the proliferation of

something called the auto-seer. It takes your everyday handgun and turns it into

a machine gun.

And you're ready to go.

No more mechanical resistance, you now have a fully automatic machine there

with a sustained rate of fire of 2,000 rounds per minute. And it's

disturbingly easy to get your hands on one. And so they've really kind of been

you know an equal opportunity employer to anyone who just needs maximum

firepower to commit their acts of violence. The rise of the auto-seer and what to

deal about it coming up on today's point.

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike. It

was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it

was all wrapped up, but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing

shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling

around my area now so for that one change me a little.

Joy in every zip with red carp's now back at Starbucks. Between forgetting

the sellotape, trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table and the

cat taking down the tree again. Christmas can be tricky. At least with royal

mail, sending parcels is easy. You can save time and money when you buy your

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