Or maybe he isn’t a gun dealer and launders money for someone else, effectively acting as a middle man.
If I were in that line of work, I would keep a very low profile and have lots of personal protection.
As far as I know, all of the guns purchased by Paddock were done so legally and traceable to his name. Is that the way a person involved in illegal gun sales normally procures his weapons?
If Paddock was laundering money, he was probably just taking a cut. He wasn’t involved in the underlying illegal activity, most likely.
the gambling parts of the story jumped out at me too..this guy was supposedly a high roller...some stories saying hed play 100,000 a night...some even said 100,000 an hour...yet they told of him bragging about winning a 20,000 jackpot?...huh?...spending `100 grand to win 20 grand is ‘winning”....yah..w/e