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The Las Vegas Shooter Passed Background Checks, Had Ammonia Nitrate in His Car
National Review ^ | October 2, 2017 | Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 10/04/2017 5:33:32 PM PDT by Lera

It’s still unclear exactly what the shooter in Las Vegas used to carry out his disgusting attack last night. By all accounts, he had so many weapons that it’ll be a while before we know which ones he chose. Nevertheless, two new pieces of evidence have come to light in the last few hours, and both give us a little insight into who he was and what he was hoping to achieve. The first piece of news is that the killer “passed all required federal background checks” on at least two recent occasions:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: ammoniumnitrate; fertilizer; lasvegas; lvmassacre; paddockbio; paddockexplosives; shooter; tannerite
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[[The second is that, per the sheriff of the Las Vegas Police Department, the shooter had “ammonia nitrate” in his car. Given the peculiar sophistication of this attack — David French wrote about that earlier — one can only begin to wonder what else he had planned. As far as I understand, ammonia nitrate is an ingredient in what we’d call a “fertilizer bomb.” For whatever reason, this person was serious and he was prepared. Hopefully we’ll soon have some idea of his motive.]]

Hmmmm

1 posted on 10/04/2017 5:33:32 PM PDT by Lera
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To: Lera
Recall from the RENO video that he was wearing a NASA pink t-shirt..?

Check THIS out:


2 posted on 10/04/2017 5:34:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Lera

3 posted on 10/04/2017 5:35:41 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Lera

How much Ammonia Nitrate was found in the car? A trunk full of 50lb bags or a trace residue?


4 posted on 10/04/2017 5:35:50 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Two scoops, two genders, two terms. Get used to it.)
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To: Rebelbase

A Hunter S. Thompson checkout?!?!


5 posted on 10/04/2017 5:37:26 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Lera

Pure AN or lawn fertilizer?


6 posted on 10/04/2017 5:38:45 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: gaijin

Yeah! Lemme see that girdle!


7 posted on 10/04/2017 5:39:47 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: Lera

Question for gun dudes.
When a background check is done, does it show previous purchases of guns?
Shouldn’t there be a heads up after let’s say, a dozen guns?

I’m wondering if all of them were registered to him or someone else was in cahoots with him.


8 posted on 10/04/2017 5:41:50 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Rebelbase

[[How much Ammonia Nitrate was found in the car? A trunk full of 50lb bags or a trace residue?]]

Haven’t see it mentioned
Why would the police department mention a little bag of fertilizer though ? Wouldn’t they just say a little of fertilizer instead of saying ammonia nitrate ?


9 posted on 10/04/2017 5:42:12 PM PDT by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: gaijin

Bowling and pukimo malaki.

What a sick bastard.


10 posted on 10/04/2017 5:43:07 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Paladin2

[[Pure AN or lawn fertilizer?]]

Doesn’t say
If it was a little bag of lawn fertilizer would the sheriff not mention it was small bag of lawn fertilizer instead of saying ammonia nitrate ?

One thing is for sure . We are not hearing the entire story


11 posted on 10/04/2017 5:44:21 PM PDT by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: gaijin

Doesn’t it look like he had some surgery on his throat?


12 posted on 10/04/2017 5:46:05 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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I don’t believe he used more than two weapons. From what I heard it sounded like two different guns being fired.

Let’s say he used four, for argument’s sale,

What good would stopping him after he bought his 12th weapon?

What would that have prevented in the case of the Las Vegas shooting?

If a law wouldn’t have real world results, why even suggest it?

Not trying to be overly critical, but this clearly wouldn’t help.

1. Mandalay Bay hotel is a gun free zone

2. It is illegal to kill people

3. Las Vegas has some strict gun laws, some of which this man broke

Laws are not the problem. We have plenty of them now.


13 posted on 10/04/2017 5:57:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: gaijin

Is he sitting in the pic or is he not that big a guy?


14 posted on 10/04/2017 5:57:57 PM PDT by umgud
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

https://lawnewz.com/legal-analysis/stricter-gun-laws-would-not-have-prevented-las-vegas-shooting/


15 posted on 10/04/2017 5:58:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: Lera

“ammonia nitrate” is an ingredient for a bomb and the other ingredient, which I won’t mention, is even more readily available.

So, why not the grander plan. Personally, I think he was winding down on what money he had. A modest gambling win would have bought him another day.

Single mother, hard scrabble upbringing, high achiever, extreme narcissist, fragile ego, two very short marriages, yells at his girlfriend often enough at Starbucks to be remembered by the staff...watching it all gambled away, knowing deep down -knowing he’s a fool.

Ever see narcissistic rage? I have.


16 posted on 10/04/2017 5:59:02 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: gaijin

That’s too many coincidences.


17 posted on 10/04/2017 5:59:39 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: gaijin

that’s a different Steve Paddock. That dude worked at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md for many years apparently.
Not same man.


18 posted on 10/04/2017 6:02:10 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: umgud

I think I read that he was a small guy, but fit.


19 posted on 10/04/2017 6:02:45 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Fitzy_888

[cont.]

NASA, Lockheed Martin => he was “the golden child”.

(Not saying that explains it, but it gives proximaty.)


20 posted on 10/04/2017 6:03:43 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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