Posted on 10/03/2017 8:08:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Las Vegas hotel room of gunman Stephen Paddock, who killed 59 people and wounded more than 500 at a country music concert, was littered with assault rifles and bullet shells, photos of the room show.
A Boston 25 News reporter tweeted a photo of Paddock’s room that shows a hammer along with dozens of casings on the floor and a bullet magazine. Among the casings is an assault rifle fixed with a scope and bipod.
A second photo showed another long assault rifle with a long magazine and handle at the front of the stock.
Police believe Paddock used a hammer to bust a window in his Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino hotel room.
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Did anyone get hurt from the broken panes of glass coming down? Anyone notice glass on the ground below?!!
We took turns firing and “working” the target. I only heard one shot.
Thanks for the answer. I built 3 80% ar’s and had never heard of bump stocks until now. lol. :)
I will assist with gun ignorance monitoring.
Those pictured rifles do not seem to have bump fire stocks. How did he get that rate of fire with purchased semi-autos? One didn’t have a scope with magnification, although it was a big crowd that didn’t need accuracy to do damage to.
The long one is a SureFire 100rnd magazine.
I've never tried it. Put a Slidefire on your AR and find out.
I can see the FBI being worried about a retaliation if it was known that he was associated with Antifa or any other anti-Trump movement.
But we need the truth, hiding it only makes it worse.
Bingo, otherwise the MSM will get right back on the Gun Control mantra.
Already aided by not so smart Hillary... Just imagine if he had a silencer quote
Can you explain how someone fired from the lower flower without breaking the glass or the people in nearby rooms hearing?
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Hey, all I have to do is read one of your posts to exceed my daily limit!
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We don’t need to know the whole story; we need for more people to recognize that what they see in the “news” is always deceptive gibberish.
Or concocted “ too straightforward to tell the truth” answers.
1. Single bullet theory - thanks Arlen Specter
2. Timothy McVeigh - no trace of terrorists ( cover slick Willies rear )
My understanding is the crowd was quardoned off and only the front was open.
So, basically everyone, in the crowd, was boxed in.
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Will you also be monitoring the “BanglessBang” list?
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Hotel videos have shown perps and victims together prior to rape or murder.
Certainly he did’t take the stairs each time to go up all those floors.
One has a slidefire (Bump Stock) and the other has a Danial’s Defense, not a bump style stock.
Sure... the gun just rocks back and forth when using the bipod, just like if you were holding it yourself. I'm guessing the reports of a "tripod" were wrong and it was just these forearm mounted bipods. They don't stop recoil, they just stabilize the elevation.
I'm not an expert, but from the pictures it looks like the first rifle has a 308/7.62 mag next to it (probably a standard 25-rounder). The other pic is clearly a bump stock and what I at first thought was a 60-round double-wide mag. Someone said it's a 100-rd Surefire mag, but I've seen those and I recall them being a little bigger. If this guy really wanted he could have picked up some 150 round drum mags, but I've heard they're a little unreliable... the springs in them don't hold tension the whole way and you'll probably get a failure-to-feed (FTF) at some point.
60 round mags are probably the most that make sense if you're concerned about reliability, for that same reason. More than that and you're better off with a belt-fed weapon but those are terribly uncommon and besides a few wacky contraptions involving a total rework of the lower, not something you'll see outside the military.
The bump fire makes sense though since it's about as close to full auto as you can get and still be legal (because it's still one trigger pull per round sent downrange). And you just know they'll come after those... ignore whatever else comes out of this, bump stocks will be banned.
Full auto, or "rapid fire" in this case, never made much sense to me unless your goal is a combat-related suppressive fire strategy (keep the enemies heads down). Control is terrible since your'e fighting muzzle rise so it's really about the spray-and-pray jihadi technique, which unfortunately is all this guy cared about anyway.
I'm also afraid this will be an impetus for going after the standard capacity magazines (30 round 5.56, maybe even 25-rd .308). Not to mention the higher 40+ round mags or the large drums.
Which is ridiculous because any practiced shooter can drop the mag and reload in no time at all. We're not talking about world record times like you'll see some folks do, but within a second or two and you're back in battery, locked and loaded.
Which all begs the question... was this a false flag by the gun grabbers?
Maybe he wanted to hit a specific target (e.g. performer on stage) if the opportunity presented itself.
The lower picture shows a much larger than standard magazine.
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