I’ve got a serious problem with the “200 rounds” thing. I’m confused ...
The gunman (possibly but not definitively Paddock) sees the approaching security guard through the camera set up on the room service cart in the hallway. The trap has been sprung.
The gunman then blazes away through the door, but that’s what mystifies me. Most semi-autos have a maximum magazine capacity of 30, maybe 50. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a 100-round magazine and surely not a 200-rounder. So the gunman hammers away with 50 rounds, stops to change magazines, hammers away again, swaps, shoots, swaps and shoots? Did he even check the camera to see if he hit the security guard in the middle of this fusillade? Why didn’t he just open the door and finish the job at close range with a single round?
The alternative to magazines is a belt-fed weapon, but I haven’t heard anything about metal links found on the floor. Then again, I haven’t seen any definitive weapon information, such as which guns were fired, which weren’t, how many calibers, how many empty casings, any tracers or incendiary rounds, etc.
Still so many questions about this one.
Since the gunman had no qualms with murdering dozens, why not pull the unarmed guard into the room? Execute him as well, Toss his radio and phone out the window. No blood trail or holes are left in the hallway. Assume firing at the crowd below.
Why didn’t he just open the door and finish the job at close range with a single round?
Because the shooter was not the patsy SCP? And so the shooter did not want to show his face?
LOL SCP patsy conjecture makes lots of this easy. So why does LV LE continue banging its head against doctored timelines and lack of motive for SCP?