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ORIGINAL: MercTech

I wonder how many dead and injured were from gunshots and how many from a panicked crowd trying to flee through limited exits? In a crisis situation; often more are injured from panic than from the immanent threat.

Assuming all the deaths were from gunshot and no multiple kills per shot due to ricochet; that is one reload with 30 round magazines and 6 reloads with California magazines (10 round max). Based on scores at a tactical range, yep way back in the day, that rate of fire would be consistent with three minutes of supressive fire for a practiced marksman or 5 minutes for a duffer.

And some of my friends wonder why large crowds make me paranoid a bit. Knowledge of how easy it is to devastate a crowd is a thing I wish I could unlearn.

BTW, you don't need a southern accent to sing country. You just learn to sing through the nose. And, yes, Nashville style country is a southern white thing. And Delta Blues is a southern black thing. And New Orleans Jazz don't give a fig for color as long as you like it spiced. Is this an issue?

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

Lucky escape there. Have you heard from your couple of friends since this shitstorm broke?

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ORIGINAL: MercTech

petit rant:
The Google search algorithm is broken. If you try to find out more on breaking news; you get a page and a half of far removed ideologue rants from New York, Los Angeles, USA Today, CNN, and the rest who are so far removed from the story as to be on another continent. Meanwhile, the local reporting, closest to what is going on, gets buried on page three.
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Local Las Vegas news can be found at:

Interesting, the cellphone footage from the crowd shows the fire was from a full auto weapon. You can hear it clear as day. Where did Paddock get a machine gun? You can't get that at your local gun show.
http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/video/16989293/

Interview with local police spokesman.
http://www.wral.com/news/video/16988141/

The police cannot find Paddock's car. The girlfriend has been found and was out of the country when the shooting occurred. Now, where did that car go? Is there a second person involved?

I can't help but think of the aftermath of another case of a shooter opening up on a concert crowd. Months later it was found that the crowd shooting was simply a distraction for a gang sponsored hit on a person in the crowd. Everyone, even bodyguards, focused on the mass shooter while six people killed the person they were targeting. Nasty business by nasty people. This incident looks to be a nut job but you can't ignore possible other reasons.

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

Automatic assault weapons are legal in Nevada.
That is apparently what he used.

You don't have to be a sharpshooter if you're using one of those.

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

Why are they talking about him having ten "not really an assault rifle"s to hand if he was using a machine gun?
Maybe he just had ten NRARs to hand so he'd have spares in case he broke a few before he managed to convert one to full automatic? If he'd been using a machine gun, surely he'd have killed a lot more in a crowd that size?

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An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.

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When the Nevada Department of Public Safety queried the FBI, the FBI replied, correctly, that the Nevada Initiative could not force the FBI to set up a program to conduct Nevada private transaction instant checks, absent federal legislation authorizing and funding such an effort.

That’s when Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (R) issued an opinion that if the FBI won’t conduct the Instant Checks requisite to any private gun sale in Nevada, then one can’t require those Instant Checks for those private sales.

Adam Laxalt effectively nullified “Question 1” -- and that means New York Leftist Michael Bloomberg wasted $20 million trying to pass gun control in Nevada.

Believe me, if this law had been passed in states like New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Virginia, their respective Attorneys General would not have acted to protect the Constitutional rights of their citizens like Attorney General Laxalt did for the people of Nevada!

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Why wouldn't you just go to the appropriate source in the first place?

Why let Google decide what you want?

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Gun, good. Liberals, lousy. Me, run for office.

It even fits on a lawn sign.

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

Got you.
My bad: I thought you defined a machine gun as something that only fired on full automatic, and from a belt or hopper rather than a rifle magazine.
(And I like the notion that he'd modified something himself: you don't need ten rifles for a single shooting unless you're worried that you'll break a few of them, right?)

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

I was under the impression that Nevada was refusing to enforce any of those federal regulations.
You can thank the Attorney General for that.

These people seem to think his pro-gun stance means he deserves to be governor:

http://www.draftadamlaxalt.com/

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When the Nevada Department of Public Safety queried the FBI, the FBI replied, correctly, that the Nevada Initiative could not force the FBI to set up a program to conduct Nevada private transaction instant checks, absent federal legislation authorizing and funding such an effort.

That’s when Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (R) issued an opinion that if the FBI won’t conduct the Instant Checks requisite to any private gun sale in Nevada, then one can’t require those Instant Checks for those private sales.

Adam Laxalt effectively nullified “Question 1” -- and that means New York Leftist Michael Bloomberg wasted $20 million trying to pass gun control in Nevada.

Believe me, if this law had been passed in states like New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Virginia, their respective Attorneys General would not have acted to protect the Constitutional rights of their citizens like Attorney General Laxalt did for the people of Nevada!

A true hero and champion of freedom:

http://www.guns.com/2017/01/03/nevadas-20m-background-check-law-frozen-by-attorney-general/

And I guess now we all know how great it is to be free.

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ORIGINAL: MercTech
Listen to the cell footage. It sure sounds like he was using an actual assault rifle and that begs the question of where the eff he got his hands on it. Was it licensed and permitted (required by Federal law for full auto weapons)? Was it a home brew modification? Or, was it an unlawfully acquired weapon which begs again, where the eff did he get it? Were any Class III license holders robbed lately?