“Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo has named Stephen Paddock as the suspected gunman in the Las Vegas shooting. The 64-year-old white man was found dead by officers in his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay, where ‘numerous firearms’ were discovered.” Paddock apparently was found to have committed suicide in his hotel room by police officers who burst into his hotel room.
Little is known about the Mesquite, Nevada man so far. Media speculation will, no doubt, center on his political beliefs and affiliations. If this situation runs true to form, it will be assumed by all of the expert talking heads that he’s a NRA member and former Tea Party activist…right up until it’s determined that his beliefs and motives were diametrically opposed to those (case in point, baseball shooter James Hodgkinson).
Again, speculation as to any political or other motive this soon in an investigation is fruitless and irresponsible. So we’re sure to see plenty of it in the hours and days to come.
Why we can’t have nice things.
So… anybody want to place bets on which particular brand of leftist it will be this time?
It’s hard to be precise, but using google maps distance measurement tool, I’m getting that the portion of Mandalay Bay he was firing from is something like 300 – 400 meters away from the general area of the concert. But, obviously, he was also high up as that’s just a rough ground level measurement.
To those more deeply versed on long range ballistics, does that realistically rule anything out in terms of the weapons used?
It probably doesn’t rule much of anything out. To my ear, as the cyclic rate rises and falls, it sounded like a bump-fire stock or BFS/Echo trigger. Going full cyclic or near-full cyclic turns practically anything into an area weapon. The most popular rifle in the US is the AR platform, usually chambered in 5.56 or 7.62; both rounds are easily capable of lethal hits at these ranges and accept the above-mentioned components to simulate fill-auto fire. Add in a fair red det or decent iron sights and the weapon easily has the capability to do this. In short, no. It doesn’t rule out much of anything.
CNBC Via interview with the Sheriff is stating the shooter committed suicide prior to police entering the building. Also, the women whose picture has been plastered everywhere had nothing to do with the event and the shooter had used her ID but did not elaborate further.
Sheriff says he refuses to label the shooter until there is more information. Police only just arriving at the house and have not found information. Shooter has been staying in the Hotel since September 28th according to police
This has Gorka/Bannon written all over it. Best way to distract from PR response, Kushner Private Emails and illegal election of POTUS by Russia.
Will be claimed to be fake by Violent Right since it won’t fit their everyone is entitled to automatic “hunting” rifles
This is a black day for the firearms community. Beyond that I am speechless. We may never know what motivated tis shooter since the usual suspects are excluded. The best case and iit’s not a good one, is that it was an illegally obtained fully automatic weapon not available to the general public, i.e., a post 1986 machine gun.
Was he a Bernie Sanders supporter??? Most of these mass shooters have been socialist progressive democrats.
Cant blame this one on gangster music this time
People who do things like this are no part of the community of sportsmen who use firearms in legal and responsible ways. Just as mad dogs are not like cute puppies, this guy was in a separate category entirely.
Sick to my stomach when I opened the news this morning.
The war against our Second Amendment rights will get ramped up in the coming days.
Sick bastard. Wish these a holes would commit suicide first.
Anyone else listen to the gun fire in the videos? Discounting echoes, the sound of the firing was really weird with regard to pace. Sometimes the gunfire almost sounded like it overlapped itself (like more than one weapon being fired?). Very weird staccato (not pure full-auto, not bump-fire, not binary-trigger fire sounding).
Paris, France: Bataclan (2015). 139 killed, 413 injured. Semi-auto and full auto firearms illegal in all of Europe.
Humans are great at devising and implementing deadly ambushes. Its what got us to the top of the food chain. Its what makes war hell. I think it drives more fear if a clear motive is never determined.
Old white lone wolf terrorist attack. Can’t wait for the apologist to flock in.
Let the panic buying ensue
32 stories high with an automatic weapon – and I’m calling it right here – this was full auto fire, absolutely nothing beyond immediately neutralizing the shooter would have made any difference in the death toll.
The news outlets have already picked up on slide fire stocks. Look for those to receive the ATF ban hammer by the end of the week if they were used in this shooting.
What kind of accuracy did you get?
We need to keep quiet about conspiracies, nut cases and other theories. Hillary already said that the carnage would have been worse if he had a silencer. Fauxcahontas and her treason cousins are already calling for gun confiscation. Not in so many words but the implication is there. I fear that the suppressor and reciprocal carry bills are dead for the forseeable future.
Here’s a little something regarding Brett Arrends from last year, he has quite an agenda:
http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/brett-arends-is-clueless-about-the-second-amendment/11352
I know a public range owned by a state that bans “Fast shooting” True story
how many of you would say, at 400 yards I have confidence in putting a shot from anything .223 on up in a vital area of a man sized target? a single shot could have ended the whole thing swiftly, but we are infringed so much, that even if it would have saved many lives, we would be investigated for the shot. why don’t we get rid of fun free zones, and “win the west” again by making an example to anyone thinking they might want to go on a rampage? make it law that we protect our fellow man by any means necessary and show that civilians will not stand for ANY terrorist action.
do you really think he would continue hanging out of Windows if a few people were shooting back?
Humans beings have reasons for everything they do? I’d like to present the entirety of human history evidence that we do not.