Mass Shooting in Las Vegas

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IronWarrior said:
f anyone wasn't aware, fully automatic weapons are banned in the USA.

The only way to get access to them is to jump through many hoops and checks upon checks and a ton of money, a real ton of money to finally buy one.
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Some serious mag dumping going on there :( at least 3x 10 second bursts of high rate of fire full automatic maybe more.
 
Tragic as this undoubtedly is it is hardly news. Data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive reveals a shocking human toll: there is a mass shooting – defined as four or more people shot in one incident, not including the shooter – on five out of every six days, on average. There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, it is what Americans do.
 
Rroff said:
Some serious mag dumping going on there :( at least 3x 10 second bursts of high rate of fire full automatic maybe more.
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Rate of fire sounds to slow to be an AR or AK and they can both empty their standard mags in about 3s - so either they have 100rd mags and I am hearing the resultant beat from a reflected sound in that video OR I think we could be looking at a belt fed LMG (there are plenty of them that could be stolen from around the strip).

RIP
 
Thread title says New Vegas, I thought it was a fallout reference.

Horrific situation. RIP.
 
RIP

Radio says the shooter is down, I'm hoping this is a lone nutter and not multiple shooters. Multiple shooters means most likely Islamic terror and I'm not sure Trump will have a very measured response to that. America is a more attractive target under Trump because they know he is more likely to give them the fight they want.

The hotel is the one where the UFC takes place.
 
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LOAM said:
If only more gamblers were armed this wouldn't happen.
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You make a good point. Whenever there is a mass shooting, the answer coming from the states is always "this wouldn't happen if more people were armed".
Maybe arm the casino workers as a good starting point?

In the future, they will probably have AI drones with machine guns.
 
Another happy day in the land of the free, and the home of the my-goodness-we-seem-to-get-an-awful-lot-of-shootings-over-here-for-some-reason-don't-we-I-wonder-why-that-could-be.
 
MBennett said:
Rate of fire sounds to slow to be an AR or AK and they can both empty their standard mags in about 3s - so either they have 100rd mags and I am hearing the resultant beat from a reflected sound in that video OR I think we could be looking at a belt fed LMG (there are plenty of them that could be stolen from around the strip).

RIP
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Rate of fire doesn't match up with an M16 at full rate of fire anyhow. Hard to say really beyond that. The delay between volleys is longer than a quick mag change so could be right about being belt fed or a drum mag.
 
So tragic but how can you take a gun into event like this surely they should have body and bag checks but I think I read shots were fired from hotel so no stopping that :(
 
Unverified eyewitness accounts about the number of shooters, ethnicities, etc, should be ignored. It was obviously total chaos down there and no-one as a clue.
 
All police reports say a single shooter and they are down. This just shows you the carnage that a single automatic weapon can cause.

I am on the fence about gun ownership in the US but I think time and again it has been proven that automatic weapons have no place in society. These are battlefield weapons and just cannot be justified for sports, hunting or personal protection.

The problem is that the genie is out of the bottle. Even with a blanket ban now there are thousands of automatic weapons already out there.
 
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