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My understanding is he used the Bushmaster...and bullets recovered from victims as well as dropped magazines validate that he used it. The reports state he fired 152 rounds.

And, he had two pistols with him, and he used one to kill himself.

And, there is video of the police pulling a shotgun out of the car.

Now what I don’t know, and find frustrating - how many magazines did he use. The premise of the 10 round magazine limit is that he would have had to have 16 magazines, instead of 6. Ok...but did he really only use 6? One report stated that some of the magazines were half used. So, maybe his magazine use was closer to 16 than 6. Then what? The magazine limit argument goes out of the water.

And btw, why did he drop half empty magazines? One benefit is that there is always a round in the chamber...so he can insert his next magazine without risk of some hero rushing and tackling him. So now what? Couldn’t he do this with 10 magazines, 15 magazines, 20 magazines whatever...nothing stops him from continuing on with his spree. He loses a couple of extra seconds switching things out, but so what?

And another puzzler - he killed 26 people. If for some reason he were limited by gun laws to a very limited number of 10 round magazines, say three, he’d just me more deliberate with his shots...and still kill 26 people.