Las Vegas massacre gunman fired more than 1,100 rounds, sheriff says

[Smokin Joe]

Las Vegas massacre gunman fired more than 1,100 rounds, sheriff says

Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,100 rounds when he killed 58 people and injured more than 500 others at a country music festival on the Strip last month, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told a local newspaper Wednesday.

Lombardo told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he was aware of the previously unreported figure because his department's forensics lab is working with the FBI to process all ballistics evidence.

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Sure took 'em a while to count to 1100, but I reckon that included how long it took to count the 4000 or so unfired rounds. Something doesn't match the narrative, because this is developing awful slowly. I'd rather they take the time they need to be thorough, if we can trust that.

[austingirl]

Six weeks since a presser. Surprised that even this drop of info was released. I will find it difficult to believe the findings of the FBI, if they ever have any findings, that is.

[skeeter]

One out of every 2 bullets found a target. Those poor folks must've been pretty tightly packed.

[240B]

Wait until tomorrow. This story keeps changing every freaking day. Tomorrow it will be 500 rounds, or 5000. Who cares? Every time anyone opens their mouth about what happened the story is different.


I simply stopped believing what anyone has to say about this. I don't know what is going on. I don't know why they are trying to bury and obfuscate this whole thing. I don't know.


I have no idea what the actual truth is. But I know when I am being lied to.

[Bigun]

I will at this point guarantee you that there is something about this that they do not want us to know and it's very likely that we never will.

[bigheadfred]

Just for fun I'll throw this out there. This was cover for an assassination attempt on the next/new Saudi king's son who was gambling on the strip at the time, disguised as a tourist.

[austingirl]

I will at this point guarantee you that there is something about this that they do not want us to know and it's very likely that we never will.

Exactly my feelings. Our public servants, who work for us, have effectively become royalty and we are their serfs.

All I want for Christmas: Convention of States. Terms limit. Feds adhering to the Enumerated Powers.

[Bigun]

Exactly my feelings. Our public servants, who work for us, have effectively become royalty and we are their serfs.

All I want for Christmas: Convention of States. Terms limit. Feds adhering to the Enumerated Powers.

   Those things would indeed make for a GREAT Christmas but, I fear, it's not to be.  We have gone over the edge now and I don't see how we get back up.

[austingirl]

  Those things would indeed make for a GREAT Christmas but, I fear, it's not to be.  We have gone over the edge now and I don't see how we get back up.

Very sad. We couldn't keep the Constitutional Republic the Founders gave us.

[bigheadfred]

One out of every 2 bullets found a target. Those poor folks must've been pretty tightly packed.

I don't know that I saw a number of people who actually took a bullet. Just 500 "injured".

[skeeter]

I don't know that I saw a number of people who actually took a bullet. Just 500 "injured".

True, I'm sure that number includes trampling victims as well.

[austingirl]

Just for fun I'll throw this out there. This was cover for an assassination attempt on the next/new Saudi king's son who was gambling on the strip at the time, disguised as a tourist.

The "authorities" don't like the conspiracy theories- too bad! The upper floors of the Mandalay are owned by the Saudis. With all the purging in the Saudi kingdom, there could be something to this theory. I believe the FBI knows and it is very big and they will never tell us.

[Smokin Joe]

I don't know that I saw a number of people who actually took a bullet. Just 500 "injured".

Direct impact, ricochets, 'spatter' off the pavement, injuries sustained in the mob trying to escape, etc. I agree, there may have been fewer actually wounded by bullets.

[Smokin Joe]

Just for fun I'll throw this out there. This was cover for an assassination attempt on the next/new Saudi king's son who was gambling on the strip at the time, disguised as a tourist.

At this point, about  the only folks I'd eliminate are the BLM bunch, and that's a maybe. We really don't know, but I smell a 'sting' gone wrong.

[WingNot]

Wait until tomorrow. This story keeps changing every freaking day. Tomorrow it will be 500 rounds, or 5000. Who cares? Every time anyone opens their mouth about what happened the story is different.


I simply stopped believing what anyone has to say about this. I don't know what is going on. I don't know why they are trying to bury and obfuscate this whole thing. I don't know.


I have no idea what the actual truth is. But I know when I am being lied to.

I'm not saying it was Aliens.  But my theory is, it was Aliens. 

[GtHawk]

I don't know that I saw a number of people who actually took a bullet. Just 500 "injured".

Just found out the brother of my daughters friend was there and he didn't take a bullet, but a piece of shrapnel did strike near his heart and that nearly ended his life. They say he is also suffering from PTSD, afraid to go out anywhere afterwards.

[edpc]

True, I'm sure that number includes trampling victims as well.

Yes, but even at that distance, the dispersion made his weapons essentially long range shotguns.  Hard to miss a group that big.

[driftdiver]

One out of every 2 bullets found a target. Those poor folks must've been pretty tightly packed.

Have you ever been to a concert?   Should to shoulder up close to the stage which is where the first shots landed.  Think walmart 5 minutes before opening on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

[Suppressed]

I have no idea what the actual truth is. But I know when I am being lied to.

I would be extremely disappointed with law enforcement if they weren't lying.

[bigheadfred]

Have you ever been to a concert?   Should to shoulder up close to the stage which is where the first shots landed.  Think walmart 5 minutes before opening on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Heart concert. After they went to the glam look. Nancy Wilson in her bustier. Got up close for a good look. Then had security pull me over the fence into the three foot walkway between the stage and the crowd.

[skeeter]

Have you ever been to a concert?   Should to shoulder up close to the stage which is where the first shots landed.  Think walmart 5 minutes before opening on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Of course, but after the first few seconds I imagine the crowd tried to disperse pretty quickly. From what I read the guy was sniping for a good ten or fifteen minutes.

[Smokin Joe]

Of course, but after the first few seconds I imagine the crowd tried to disperse pretty quickly. From what I read the guy was sniping for a good ten or fifteen minutes.

Think about crowd dynamics. He'd shoot for the largest, most dense concentrations of people. As the crowd moved and broke up into bunches trying to escape the area, he'd shoot at the largest or most tightly packed groups. Some rounds might achieve through and through penetration and hit someone else while they were tightly packed. Others would ricochet off the pavement, fragment on impact and the fragments cause wounds. I have little doubt there were some people who were injured in the scramble for cover or to escape.

He was likely less effective after the crowd started to disperse.