Active Shooter in Vegas!

[Ninurta]

It was widely reported that Stephen Paddock didn't write anything down -as the view of
a note in one of the images suggested. However, Police have now admitted...

Las Vegas killer's plan to maximise casualties as note found in gunman's hotel room.

Police found a note in the gunman's room with details of how to accurately aim from the 32nd
floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.

'A note with calculations of where to aim to maximise casualties was found in the hotel room of
Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock.
The discovery, by police officers who stormed his room as last weekend's massacre unfolded,
was revealed in a TV interview.



Paddock, 64, killed 58 people from the 32nd floor room in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, which
overlooked a crowd of more than 20,000 people attending the Route 91 Harvest Music
Festival in the Nevada city.

The hand-written note was found near a window that Paddock had smashed to fire on the crowd,
and included calculations about where to aim to kill as many people as possible in the crowd,
about 400 metres away from the hotel.

David Newton, an officer with the Las Vegas Police Department's K-9 Unit, told CBS show 60
Minutes: "I could see on it he had written the distance.
"The elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for the crowd."

Officer Newton told 60 Minutes the room, which was filled with dust and flashing lights from an
explosive used to blast open the door, was something "straight out of a movie".
Investigators are yet to establish what may have compelled Paddock, who had no known links
to radical groups and left no manifesto or messages, to carry out the massacre...'

SOURCE:

So, discussion groups regarding the massacre were right and it'll be interesting to see what other
suggestions are also correct.

The story just gets curiouser and curiouser. Either the gunman had plans to maximize casualties with accurate fire OR he used a "bump stock" - it can't be both, as they are mutually exclusive. Simply put, any list of instructions on how to deliver accurate fire should have "DON'T USE A BUMP STOCK" at the head of the list, right there at #1.

Making calculations for a range card at 400 meters is a waste of time and effort if you're going to employ an inherently inaccurate bump stock. It's like planning to drive a car and keep it on the road by removing the steering wheel - then calculating where the car WOULD go it it had a steering wheel.

Here's an informational video on bump fire stocks:




Now ask yourself - "if moving 10 yards closer (40% closer, almost half the distance) to the target marginally increases accuracy, what is moving AWAY from it 375 yards (1600% distance INCREASE) going to do to accuracy?"

Furthermore, AR-15 rifles are not designed for that sort of sustained rate of fire. Here's another video demonstarting that aspect:




Note that at the 5 minute mark of the video - considerably less than 5 minutes of firing - the handguards of the rifle actually catch fire and burn like a wooden log. Also note that on the photos I've seen of the crime scene, there is no visible evidence whatsoever on any of the guns that they were subjected to the sustained rate of fire that can be heard in the videos of the event.

Also noteworthy are the constant, continual, and consistent mentions of "thousands of rounds" - which is probably accurate in that thousands of rounds would necessarily be expended to produce the 500-odd hits. BUT - the rifle in the video was rendered inoperative after only 440 rounds, and was, at that point, obviously and visibly damaged beyond repair - a circumstance decidedly NOT present in any of the crime scene photos I've seen.

Things that make you go "hmmmm..."...



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