On the evening of October 1, 2017,
Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from
Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire upon the crowd attending the
Route 91 Harvest music festival on the
Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. From his 32nd-floor suites in the
Mandalay Bay Hotel he fired more than 1,000 bullets, killing 60 people
[a] and wounding 411
The incident is the
deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in United States history. It focused attention on
firearms laws in the U.S., particularly with regard to
bump stocks, which Paddock used to fire shots in rapid succession, at a rate similar to that of
automatic firearms.
[4] Bump stocks were banned by the
U.S. Justice Department in December 2018, with the regulation in effect as of March 2019. This ban was suspended by the
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on March 25, 2021.
and numerous
high-capacity magazines capable of holding up to 100 rounds apiece were found in the suite.
[142][143] Fourteen of the firearms were
.223-caliber AR-15-type semi-automatic rifles: three manufactured by
Colt, two by
Daniel Defense, two by
FN Herstal, two by
LWRC International, two by
POF-USA, one with a
.223 Wylde chamber by Christensen Arms, one made-to-order by
LMT, and one by Noveske. The others were eight
.308-caliber AR-10-type rifles, one .308-caliber
Ruger American bolt-action rifle, and one
.38-caliber Smith & Wesson Model 342 revolver.
[142][144][145] The AR-15 rifles were fitted with
vertical forward grips and
bump stocks,
[142][144] the latter of which allowed for
recoil to actuate their triggers at a rate of 90 rounds in 10 seconds.
[146] The AR-10 rifles were equipped with various
telescopic sights and mounted on bipods.
[142][147][148] Paddock was found to have fired a total of 1,058 rounds from fifteen of the firearms: 1,049 from twelve AR-15-style rifles, eight from two AR-10-style rifles, and the round used to kill himself from the Smith & Wesson revolver.
[32]
During the subsequent investigation, the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives determined that the firearms found in his hotel room, along with more guns found in his homes, had been legally purchased in Nevada, California,
Texas, and
Utah.
[149] In the month preceding the shooting, he had attempted to purchase
tracer ammunition, but the gun dealer he approached did not have the item in stock.
[150] He bought tracer ammunition from a private seller at a
Phoenix, Arizona gun show.
[151] In addition,
ammonium nitrate (often used in
improvised explosive devices) was found in the trunk of his
Hyundai Tucson SUV, along with 1,600 rounds of ammunition and 50 pounds (23 kg) of
Tannerite, a
binary explosive used to make explosive targets for gun ranges.
[152][153] Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said that while Paddock had "nefarious intent" with the material, he did not appear to have assembled an explosive device.
None of those are "Assault" weapons by any stretch of the imagination....you are wrong....
And a muslim terrorist in Nice, France, murdered 86, not 60, with just a rental truck and 5 minutes of driving...
The weapon does not matter, the location of the target matters....
There is only one mass public shooting where the rifle had an advantage in the shooting, and that was Las Vegas, where the range was over 200 yards......but he was also firing into a tightly packed crowd of over 22,000 people, at night, from a concealed and fortified position.......with his initial shooting masked by the concert.
And if the crowd hadn't been trapped in that concert arena, he wouldn't have been able to kill as many since they would have run away or found cover.....since shooting at moving targets at hundreds of yards is almost impossible for all but expertly trained shooters...
At the range of every other mass public shooting a rifle has no advantage over pistols or shotguns.......
again.....at the range of a mass public shooting the AR-15 is no better than a pump action shotgun....as are 2 handguns......you idiot...
Boulder....used an AR-15 with magazines that held more than 10 bullets.. 10 killed.....
Virginia Tech...2 pistols, one with 10 round magazine..... 32 killed.
Do you see that the AR-15 killed fewer people than the 2 pistols?
Boulder...10 killed with an AR-15 rifle and regular magazines ( holding more than 10 bullets)
Luby's Cafe..... 2 pistols....24 killed.
Do you see that the 2 pistols killed more than the AR-15?
Do you know what the difference was between these attacks?
The cops immediately responded and shot at the attacker in boulder, causing him to stop shooting unarmed victims, and then he shot himself....
Virginia Tech and Luby's Cafe, the police didn't get there, and at Luby's Cafe, the one woman who could have shot and killed the attacker had to leave her gun in her car because of stupid gun free zone laws....
Boulder AR-15 with magazines that hold more than 10 bullets...you know, regular magazines..... 10 killed...
Kerch, Russia, Polytechnic school shooting.... 5 shot, pump action shotgun...which means it had 5 shells which is 5 less than 10........20 killed 70 wounded.
Kazan, Russia school shooting....semi-automatic shotgun 5 + 1 or 7 +1 capacity...9 killed, 23 injured
Perm, Russia school shooting.... 4 + 1 capacity, 6 killed, 43 injured
Do you see that the AR-15 killed fewer people than the 5 shot, pump action shotgun?
The difference? The Russian police station was 100 yards away from the school...and it still took them 10 minutes to get to the school...and he managed to kill 20 people with a 5 shot, pump action shotgun....10 more than the Boulder shooter with a rifle and a regular sized magazine...
So again.......in a mass public shooting the number of bullets in the gun magazine doesn't mean anything......the gun doesn't make the difference....
What makes the difference?
1) if the target is a gun free zone, more people get killed.
2) if someone starts shooting at the attacker, they commit suicide, or surrender, or runaway....
That is what you don't understand and don't care to understand since you simply have a mental issue when it comes to the AR-15 rifle.
That rifle had no special advantage in a mass public shooting.
We have 20 million AR-15 rifles in private hands in the U.S....
They were used for mass public shootings 4 times in 2019 killing a grand total of
41
Deer kill 200 people a year.
Ladders kill 300 people a year.
Lawn mowers kill between 90-100 people a year...
