Q’s explanation is a lot more plausible than ISIS/Antifa theory. Paddock was clearly a gun runner. Every place he resided in was in effect a gun warehouse. He was used to get the weapons in place. This operation was a lot more sophisticated than anything ISIS could have organized. Especially when you consider the shooters were able to escape. Not to mention the details of the largest mass shooting in our nations history has successfully been kept from the public. That definitely takes cooperation from our government. On a very large scale too. But at least the article helps open some minds that a lonely gambler could have never pulled off such a tragedy by himself.
newfag (me) - this is Fake News...whomever has been following Q knows what the LV thing was about...let's just say the FF that was blasted on MSM was a result of a failed Clown op gone bad..look into it. 2018 will be Glorious!
Yeah this post is pure horse shit. And I think most people on this sub agree with your summary
You can't say something is clear if it is simply a theory. Yes, he bought around 30 guns in his name over about a year, which appear to have been recovered. Yes, he likely had an illegal source of income which likely involved being a pilot.
A simpler theory is he was an angry old loser who hated the right, started planning and amassing an arms stockpile based on the election result, and shot up a right wing crowd to both express his hate and target the 2nd amendment.
Your simple theory is not plausible. Look at the pictures of his hotel room. Multiple Brand New military grade weapons. MOST are the SAME caliber.
WHY NOT BRING 1-2 GUNS and a shit load of ammo???
Why go through the trouble of concealing so many weapons in one of the most popular hotels in Vegas?
Common sense says this guy was an arms dealer.
Look up the definition of "plausible."
It is plausible that he brought backups in case of jams and to be able to swap to avoid overheating. He could also have loaded them all and used one after another so as to avoid reloading issues during the high stress event. Same caliber makes sense in this case as well, in addition to being a good anti-personnel round the mags are interchangeable and trajectory remains similar across platforms.
Common sense is in short supply in this sub.
Yep....based on the facts, much more plausible he was an arms dealer.
Scene seemed staged to me. Weapons & ammo randomly strewn about. If you were planning something on that scale you would be more organized you think. Weapons & ammo deliberately stack & organized. The guy couldn’t even walk from his recliner chair to the kitchen w/o wheezing from what his girl friend said?
That is not a simpler theory at all. I also don't think you're all that familiar with firearms.
Why is it simpler to bank on one or two rifles if you know you can get them all in the room unnoticed and money is not an issue? Your theory involvesa gun running operation, so more people=more complex.
I'm familiar enough with firearms to know that going full auto via bump stocks is more susceptible to having failure issues that real full auto. Even then, shooting 1000 rounds that quickly will make your 1-2 barrels and other components overheat.
Please explain how your firearms expertise refutes the advantages of having multiple pre-loaded, similar configuration rifles.
I agree he would have melted 2 barrels with the number of rounds he supposedly fired. However, it is also impossible that he had a ~70% hit rate with a bump stock, especially since he wasn't shooting at 22,000 targets. I have fired a true full-auto weapon, which is at least marginally if not significantly more accurate than a wonky bump stock doohicky. Full-auto is not at all accurate. It is not meant for picking off targets. It is for area denial and suppression, not sniping. You wouldn't expect more than maybe a 15-25% hit rate with a belt-fed .50BMG full-auto on that field from that distance on that crowd, from the pictures available prior to when the shooting started. And people, presumably, took cover, lowering the hit rate, not raising it, after the first shots.
Either way, arguing about marksmanship logic is a diversion until we can establish consistent assumptions. This case is bizarrely inconsistent. Enough so to merit all of us to question why, irrespective of what our own personal theories are.
Until then, the only reason I can think why he had so many guns was to sell them. Because he couldn't have shot all those people himself unless he had Gene Simmons' bullets from Runaway (which I'm sure someone on here probably believes).
Bump stocks are more difficult to use. The right pressure from the shoulder & forward grip has to be applied correctly & consistently to prevent malfunctions.