Saudi Arabia has long bought off fundamentalists. But MBS was an up-and-comer a reformer by Saudi standards. This meant fundamentalists would lose an important source of funding.
Meanwhile in the USA it is a natural point of interest of DaGummint to know who the baddies are who wish to buy military small arms. This is especially true for the baddies who are MUSLIM wanting to do that. To do this DaGummint uses agents who pose as greedy, wayward scum-bag arms dealers, etc.
Working like —using agents— means DaGummint learns about the identities and methods of the baddies.
The fundamentalists saw their chance to knock-off MBS when he went abroad to Las Vegas to gamble. The Saudis own the top 4 floors of the Mandalay Bay —that’s where most of them stay when playing around in Vegas.
To keep things simple the fundamentalist baddies scheduled their arms buy near the top of the Madalay Bay. Their latest intel was that MBS was juuust upstairs from their arms buy. They reviewed their guns, killed their honky arms salesman, then ran upstairs:
They discovered their target was NOT there as they had believed.
They needed to escape. They wanted a diversion to make that easier:
They opened fire on the concert venue in order to generate the type of chaos they wanted; they wanted to overload the workload of law enforcement.
Their shooting job was slowed considerably by their discovery that many of the mags were not loaded; that’s why there was intermittent pausing during the shooting.
The two shooters discovered they were surrounded on their floor and could not escape.
They offed themselves. Their dead arms salesman agent was already dead and never fired a shot.
The government covered it all up, since it might appear they had something to do with the mass-shooting suddenly thrown into their laps.
This was a modern variation on the OKC bombing, another sting operation which also blew-up in the faces of the Feds.
Makes more sense than anything our gummint has said.
Do you really think they were buying these guns from this guy? That’s not how this works. Do you think the Saudis need to see an AR15 before they buy them. THAT is ridiculous.
The firearms were there to be used. I think that is obvious. Who was using them and why is the unanswered question.