I think you just touched on motive, a leftie trying to bring about gun control/ confinscation.
I’ve been thinking about that from day one.
As many profilers have stated, you only mass murder strangers from a distance for two reasons: Notoriety or a Cause.
Notoriety is a young man’s game. Older folks have established their identity and don’t need some blaze of glory to give their death meaning. That leaves a cause.
I have wondered over and over again why a man with his means didn’t simply apply for his FFL and buy actual automatic weapons. I’ve wondered why he didn’t just load up his plane with fuel and crash it into the crowd.
The only thing I can think of is that he wanted to make a statement...For his cause. “Look what I was able to do entirely within the law! ANYONE can do this.”
That would explain why he brought way more guns to the room than he needed to. It would explain the mass purchase of 30 additional firearms over the last year.
Everything he did seems designed to highlight a perceived weak spot in 2nd Amendment arguments. He passed background checks, he purchased all weapons and ammo legally, he made a point of using a “bump stock” which probably ultimately lowered the death toll as if to put a novelty shooting item into the headlines.
That said, I suspect law enforcement knows a lot more than they’re sharing and that motive will shake out before this is over. Seeing a lot of information floating around that hasn’t been corroborated by the police yet, particularly in the British press.
That's the same song I've been singing for the past few days... I too believe he was a big time gun control advocate...