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First look inside Stephen Paddock’s hotel room shows guns, shells and a hammer
NY Daily News ^ | October 3, 2017 | BY TERENCE CULLEN

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: lasvegas; paddock
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To: BenLurkin

That’s a lot of preparation for somebody who “just snapped”


My thought exactly. Too much planning for someone who snapped.


21 posted on 10/03/2017 8:26:03 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: chapin2500

There’s something on the Grip.


22 posted on 10/03/2017 8:26:10 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That is a bump stock.


23 posted on 10/03/2017 8:26:44 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: jerod

could be he used the hammer to knock out the shreds of glass on the lower part of the pane after he blew the windows out with his guns...


24 posted on 10/03/2017 8:26:58 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

dozens of casings on the floor

Dozens? Should there not have been hundreds...maybe its just the phrasing...


25 posted on 10/03/2017 8:27:41 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: chapin2500

It is, you can tell because the receiver slides back into the gap at the grip.

It also has a compensator, not a flash suppressor.


26 posted on 10/03/2017 8:28:49 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: joshua c

I guess we get to see this 48 hours after the shooting. You know, once the “authorities” have had time to remove all of the “evidence” surrounding motive.


27 posted on 10/03/2017 8:28:52 AM PDT by WilliamCooper1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The compensator accounts for some of the noise identification problems.


28 posted on 10/03/2017 8:29:24 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shouldn’t the floor be completely covered in shell casings? He must have let off well over 1000 rounds.


29 posted on 10/03/2017 8:29:45 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Adder

Don’t ask questions comrade.


30 posted on 10/03/2017 8:30:05 AM PDT by WilliamCooper1
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To: Adder

it’s a tight shot of two guns, not pictures of the room.


31 posted on 10/03/2017 8:30:37 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: BenLurkin

That’s a lot of preparation for somebody who “just snapped”

Found the guns and ammo under the bed ?


32 posted on 10/03/2017 8:30:40 AM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: jonose

Very good insight. Hotel Videos are essential.


33 posted on 10/03/2017 8:32:00 AM PDT by Broker (Sept. 11.. Never Forget)
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To: hanamizu; All
Shouldn’t the floor be completely covered in shell casings? He must have let off well over 1000 rounds.

No. He fired from two positions. It is a suite of rooms. We do not know what portion of the suite of rooms the pictures were taken in. Probably at least 400 square feet of floor space, likely more.

34 posted on 10/03/2017 8:33:05 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Big Red Badger

Supposedly a high roll gambler, it could be the
casinos were leaning on him to pay up and he did
this to hurt Vegas.

Too many unknowns at this point.

He certainly didn’t “just snap”.


35 posted on 10/03/2017 8:33:25 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: knarf

Oh I absolutely believe that last photo clip can hold 40-50 rounds... thats a big clip... A standard 20 round M16 magazine is easily half or less than the length of that extended clip in that last photo posted.


36 posted on 10/03/2017 8:34:15 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: butlerweave

PATSY Paddock is the created story, versus the multiple pro shooters who carried out the well planned job.


37 posted on 10/03/2017 8:34:54 AM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

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>> “He didn’t just snap. this was very effectively planned and I personally believe he had help.” <<

No question about it!

I think he is a long time member of the swamp; a CIA “useful idiot.”
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38 posted on 10/03/2017 8:34:58 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Yes, we need to see all the video from the hotel.


39 posted on 10/03/2017 8:34:59 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: rktman

That’s a very big magazine, no problem easily believe it holds 40-50 rounds...


40 posted on 10/03/2017 8:35:11 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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