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Unarmed Las Vegas Security Guard’s Survival Highlights Inaccuracy of Bump Fire ARs

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Stephen Paddock's Mandalay Bay hotel room door.

CBS (like every other media outlet in creation) is ignoring a key point about ARs equipped with a bump fire stock: they’re wildly inaccurate. If Las Vegas spree killer Stephen Paddock hadn’t been repeatedly firing into a crowd of thousands, if he’d had to actually aim at individual targets with a bump fire-equipped AR, he may not have hit anyone. But don’t take my word for it . . .

An unarmed security guard at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino was the first to take on gunman Stephen Paddock, getting shot in the process, but providing crucial help for police looking to stop the massacre.

The security guard, identified as Jesus Campos by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America, was shot in the leg after Paddock fired at him through a door, police said.

Police said Paddock managed to fire off over 200 rounds as the security guard approached the suspect’s room alone. But the guard managed to direct police to the exact location of Paddock’s suite and even provided a hotel key to officers looking to clear rooms on the 32nd floor before they insisted he get medical attention.

The abcnews.go.com report is clear: the killer was practicing “spray and pray.” (As he was loading 100-round Surefire AR magazines, he would’ve had to either switch guns or reload to fire that many rounds.)

Speaking this evening, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo praised Campos, saying he aided officers in their search for Paddock.

Lombardo added that Paddock fired “well over 200 rounds” into the hallway when the security guard approached. Paddock had set up a camera in the hallway, apparently to watch for approaching authorities.

Bottom line: machine guns are less accurate than single shot semi-automatic rifles in most situations. AR’s equipped with a bump fire stock, even less so.

Not that it matters to the legislators bound and determined to “do something” after the Mandalay Bay spree killing. Or the media that support that effort in all its misguided glory.

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Robert Farago

Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. What are the chances that Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter, was not a “typical” domestic terrorist or ISIS-inspired killer but such a diehard Liberal/Progressive (Democrat) that he went on his killing spree specifically choosing the AR-15 platform in order to exact “change” ie. the banning of ARs’ and/or all semi-auto rifles?

    We must never discount ulterior motives here, “the Left” as whole have repeatedly demonstrated they are dishonest. I wouldn’t put it past someone on the other side of the 2nd Amendment debate to have been whispering in his, Paddock’s ear, and encouraging him to act “for the greater good”.

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  2. Let the media climb all over those idiotic slide-fire, bump-stock piles of shit. We all know they are a gimmick so people can fire their AR and experience what a select fire is like. We all know that bump stocks waste ammo, is impractical, inefficient, inaccurate, and a complete waste of money.
    If they want to ban them, LET THEM. It’s no guess why the NRA is giving them a blessing. Sacrifice it!

    Oh dear, NOT OUR BUMP STOCKS……WAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    Here is the real deal though, those things weren’t really well known. Now thanks to the MS media cartel, everyone and squirrels in my back yard know about them. It’s just a matter of times before some ignorant retarded ass stupid teased fat kid from some school gets the bright idea to pull the same crap and install one of those corny things on his AR because he saw it on TV.
    Ban them I says!
    Oh, and I am 9.1 miles from Freeman High School, the scene of the last school shooting near Spokane.

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  3. I actually don’t think they should ban the bump stock but if they add an amendment to the SHARE Act that banned bump stocks I would love to see the Dems try to explain them voting against it. Then the Republicans would have been the ones “to do something” and the Democrats opposed. It would be hilarious

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  4. Don’t be silly RF. If firing at a concealed “target” you are not aiming therefore no “accuracy” is involved. You are just spraying.

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  5. So the guy in TN, which is it? Was he caught with two submachine guns which would be automatic weapons firing pistol rounds or two (presumably) automatic rifles chambered in 5.56 and 7.62?

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  6. They the media could care less. Reporting the facts. Your dreaming………….
    Truth about anything so far related to guns in this matter…………doesn’t matter to the left.

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  7. Banning bump stocks in MA is a hilarious proposition, because apparently we’re not supposed to have evil, baby-killing, climate-changing, scary black rifles to begin with. So it’s really just an admission of defeat that they’d try to ban accessories in hopes that maybe we wont just buy our stuff from NH anyway.

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  8. They should’ve framed it as a trade off, bump fire stocks for national reciprocity.

    This way, both sides get to say they did something to help public safety.

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  9. NPR yesterday (I listen because I want to know what the enemy is saying) actually took the time to point out that

    1) using one of these things makes a rifle much less accurate, and
    2) normal guns are not designed for such rapid fire which increases malfunctions and jamming.

    I was quite shocked.

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  10. Gp-100 for the win it might not be quite as pretty but like every girl that’s not a beauty queen she makes up for in in other ways….

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  11. The cleanest solution is to ban the LA Times editorial board, but that’s not likely to happen given who given who controls the White House and Congress. This is isn’t about deterring free speech or a free press. It’s about taking away the tools of propagandists.

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  12. This is a rough one.
    A calculated step to try to head off more restrictive regulations but the sad fact is – it won’t be enough.

    NRA showed their hand, it’s not going to stop feinstein and Jimmy Kimmel and all the others for calling for full California style regulations. Those in congress and executive branch are far from staunch proponents of 2A IMO.

    That’s the whole not 1 inch arguement right?
    You give them something but it’s never enough.

    They better have the math right on who will vote for what because if this doesn’t plug the leak they pretty much just bet the house.

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  13. Or maybe what’s really to blame is the giant national/global news media machine, which gives these mass killers a platform for being remembered. It also amplifies the apparent damage done by focusing on that incident, or type of incident, to the exclusion of other horrific incidents.

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  14. The ATF approved these things already. If the ATF balks under the popular pressure of people wholly ignorant of what the thing/technique even is and renegs on their previous approval it essentially sheds light on the arbitrary circus of it all.

    Of course anyone paying attention already knows what a bunch of clowns they are and just how terrifyingly stupid their fellow citizens are so the worst outcome is that all these screaming morons get a pat on the head and told they were right even as they are so wrong. Rewarding ignorance and arbitrary rulings isn’t good for anyone.

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  15. So let’s just let DiFi run the show, then, and enjoy whatever fiendish legislation she throws at us. Because if bumpfire isn’t regulated, it’s gonna be legislated, and even trigger jobs are going down the drain with it.

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