Maddow shows how frighteningly easy it was for Orlando shooter to get gun inside the club

The gun used in the attack on an LGBT nightclub in Orlando was advertised as being not only lighter than an AR-15 assault rifle, but easy to conceal, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said on Tuesday.

"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 it's 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," Maddow said in footage posted by Media Matters. "It's easier to fire than an AR-15. And it fires faster and with less kick than your standard AR-15."

Maddow showed footage of the commercial promoting the Sig Sauer MCX, which she said was confirmed as the weapon used in the rampage on Saturday night. The ad shows a lone gunman making his way through a dimly-lit room firing the rifle, and highlights the fact that it can be folded up.

"They fall all over themselves in their marketing material to say how much respect they as a company have for the military and for law enforcement personnel," she said. "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. They're legal for just about anyone to buy."

She also pointed out that she has shot AR-15 rifles at shooting ranges in the past.

"One of the things that is unnerving about it is that when you hold one and when you fire it, it's light enough and controllable enough and easy enough to handle and use, that literally a four-year old or a five-year old could reasonable handle one, and fire in the right direction," she said. "It's a very easy-to-use weapon that's very light and very easy to handle and that doesn't kick much when you pull the trigger. This Sig Sauer MCX is designed to be even easier to fire than that."

Watch Maddow's commentary, as posted by Media Matters, below.