All good questions, I just recall the pics of stacked mags and freepers osted links to 100 round double stack mags (not those iffy drums). I also thought some of the pauses were to change mags or to change out a jammed rifle as bump stocks are apparently known for.
Don’t get me wrong on this, I’m not convinced he was the only shooter.
When I first heard audio taken from the concert on the radio during a break on the night it was happening, I thought there might be multiple shooters using automatic rifles. Hearing it again an hour later during another news break, it sounded like one shooter who would pause before shooting again.
Pure speculation: In the early days, I thought, “why have so many weapons if it was just one person?” Then it occurred to me that that if you had only one or two weapons but many magazines, your weapon(s) would probably foul or jam before you got through all the magazines. But if you only used one or two magazines per weapon and had many weapons—even if different makes but all firing the same calibre round and accepting the same magazines—one person could fire a bunch of clean weapons reliably for a long time without much fear of fouling or jamming. Shoot a magazine, maybe two if it doesn’t foul or jam, drop the weapon and pick up another that’s ready to go. That, to me, would account for the short but noticeable interruptions between long bursts. So I think there were plenty of loaded magazines and also plenty of weapons for one person to keep up a tempo while shooting at fleeing crowd.
That’s how one person could do it that fits the information released. But while I don’t know if there was a second shooter, I do think he didn’t do this alone. Based on the known personal habits of the guy, he doesn’t seem to be the sort to concoct and enact such a plan on his own. I could see him being a patsy for someone else. The whole Saudi Prince assassination attempt angle I’d never even heard nor read about until this evening.
I think the big person of interest is Paddock’s girlfriend from the Philippines. If he was such a loner, how did they meet? I recall the FBI interviewing her, but I don’t know what new information came out of that.