Posted on 10/01/2017 10:50:18 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Sounded like AK47 fire from the video.
Although very hard to tell.
No it doesn’t say two shooters. Just one.
wiki says AK 47 (7.62x39mm) rate of fire;
Cyclic rate of fire:
600 rds/min[7]
Combat rate of fire:
Semi-auto 40 rds/min[7]
Bursts 100 rds/min[7]
AK 74 (5.45×39mm) rate of fire;
Cyclic: 600-650 rounds/minM[4]
Practical:
Automatic: 100 rounds/minM[5]
Semi-auto: 40 rounds/min[5]
M4 Carbine;
M249 light machine gun -formerly known as M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW);
Sustained rate of fire: 100 RPM
Rapid rate of fire: 200 RPM
Cyclic rate of fire: 800 RPM
The mandalay bay is southwest of the concert site, so the shooter was shooting northeast into the crowd. The shooter did not have the angle to hit any one on the stage, which faces away from mandalay bay.
Machine gun. Revised my rate estimate to 10.5 rounds/second.
“One suspect was in room 135 of the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay has been shot dead, hotel room had multiple firearms found.”
Fox News live now - medic says he saw 15-20 dead.
So would that lead you to believe more than one shooter?
Here is a good up close video of the sound. Sounds to me like an AK-47.
You may have to click the speaker on the video to hear it.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/914737490786783232
Does anyone know if President Trump has tweeted about this yet?
Agreed. After the stage front area clears out, most of the kneeling groups (treating victims?) are closer to the stage. It doesn’t take a tactical genius to know where and when to find a crowd at a concert. I’m not getting testy with you..just feelin it, ok?
I slowed down a couple of these clips in Quicktime - it had a cyclic rate of about 600 and there was at least one burst where I just stopped counting after 60 rounds. It sounded like something .30 cal or so.
There was also either echoes or a lighter caliber weapon firing short bursts overlaying at least one of the larger gun’s bursts. Could be a second shooter, could be security forces shooting back.
I don’t believe so.
LIVE on Fox Now - medic said he pronounced 15 dead. 20 dead tonight. He’s live right now on Fox.
Some saying....solo shooter. 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay. Smashed out his window and fired on the concert crowd below LVMPD immediately counter-attacked and put the shooter down in his room. Situation contained. There are no other suspects and there were no other shots fired, elsewhere on the Strip
Good find
Not yet.
Fox now interviewing a firefighter first responder saying he personally pronounced up to 20 people dead.
If you watch the video, then they say 2 shooters.
You are just looking at the link.
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