Posted on 10/03/2017 3:31:00 AM PDT by servo1969
As virtually everyone has noted from the abundant video footage of the incident, it certainly sounds as if the shooter used either fully-automatic weapons or semi-automatic weapons modified (through, for example, a bump fire stock) to closely simulate automatic fire. Moreover, the police are reporting that he had “more than 10 rifles.” He apparently rented his corner room for days and may have even set up cameras to detect when police were approaching. That’s all strange enough, but it’s even more unusual when you consider that his own family apparently didn’t know that he maintained a stockpile of guns.
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Put all this together, and the shooting is flat-out bizarre. It’s significantly different from virtually any other mass shooting in U.S. history. If the weapons were fully automatic, then he likely would have spent immense sums of money to obtain them legally, jumping through extensive legal hoops.
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So, a person who’s “not a gun guy” has either expended untold thousands of dollars to legally purchase fully-automatic weapons, somehow found them on the black market, or purchased and substantially modified multiple semi-automatic weapons — and did so with enough competence to create a sustained rate of fire. This same person also spent substantial sums purchasing just the right hotel room to maximize casualties.
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Given the firepower and the packed mass of people, it’s easy to see how the casualty count was so high, even firing from an extreme range (by the standards of mass shootings.) This was the University of Texas tower attack on steroids, conducted out of nowhere, with meticulous planning and at great expense, from a person who doesn’t seem to fit any normal profile of a mass shooter. There is much we have yet to learn, but for now, this is one of the most chilling and mysterious events I’ve ever seen.
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thank you
I’ve already said in my professional opinion that the heavy fire I heard was 100% belt fed gpmg.
Do you agree some of the parents were acting strange though? There was quite bit of oddities about SH. That said, I’m not disputing that it happened. I just remember reading all kinds of things on the internet at the time and seeing interviews that did not add up.
He had to have some money from somewhere to live in a $400,000 dollar home in Mesquite.
And to buy so many guns and ammo.
Maybe he wouldn't be considered "rich" but he had some bucks.
One thing I’m thinking is this: people who call for gun control are hypocrites if they oppose the Border Wall at the same time.
If a stockpile of weapons is an indicator of a possible maniac, then a lot of people are in trouble. An elderly gentleman I know has over 100 weapons, none of which he fires and most of which are highly collectible. Many are antiques but a good number are revolvers that date from early 50’s through early 90’s. However, he does have several military weapons from WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam, including a M-1 and AR just to round out his collection. Guess I’ll have to turn him in to authorities if gun control libs have their way.
What?? Did you just call Sam a SJW?? Kind of destroys your argument / hold on reality, doesn’t it?
The guy was a high roller and almost certainly a net big loser. Casino hotels always have rooms for those folks. Begs the question...where did he get his money?
I note people talking about the guy winning money in Vegas. That’s not how it works.
Ok, thanks for the total chills running down my arms now. Your link, the comments... scary sh*t. That makes more sense than a retired millionaire loner coming up with this on his own...
How do we tackle/debunk these claims of multiple shooters? Any firearms experts please comment. https://t.co/MLBLqHZcLw— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) October 3, 2017
Please be alerted the video I posted is VERY upsetting be real. The taxi picks up people from the show.
Everyone focuses, perhaps as they should, on the 59 killed, but what makes this shooting different is the large number of people wounded. As you say, 600 were shot, some perhaps multiple times. And he must of missed as well. That’s an awful lot of lead going downrange. It is hard to imagine how he managed to pull this off, reloading, switching rifles, etc.
Serious inconsistencies bump for later....
Friends of mine bought something similar at a gun show once. I thought..”How stupid!”
Weeks later I asked how well they worked. Both said “they did not work worth a ****. A waste of money.”
The old gal’s x-husband lives about thirty miles from here. Already the news media is camped outside his door.
I thought that also until I found about a half dozen twitter feeds and youtube/live leak videos.
The distinct "two guns firing" is actually one gun, with two different sounds: 1) The initial "BANG" when a bullet leaves the barrel, and 2) about 30 feet out front, the bullet goes supersonic, and you hear a "crack/snap".
There are two (2) videos I'll try to post that makes it clear that it is one, and only one gun firing making both the boom and then the crack.
There is also an air foil/vortex behind the bullet that makes the "whizzz/buzz" sound as it goes by.
Then of course there is the ominous "Thwack" sound that is terrible to hear: when a high velocity bullet hits flesh and creates the hydrostatic tissue damage.
MK Ultra, anybody?
CNN has the answer. Are you sitting down? Hold on to your seat because here’s the answer. CNN said this morning that you have to have a permit to buy weapons on the black market. There. Now all the feds have to do is find some dude in the black market gun trade and get his well kept records.
I'm not saying WHAT gun might be involved, but damned sure we ain't gettin' correct data.
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