(10-02-2017, 01:28 PM)jseymour Wrote:

(10-02-2017, 01:13 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: The picture of the hotel shows TWO windows broken. Why? Did he move from one room to another?

Main room and bathroom. Gave him. two vantage points. One where the people were, 2nd to cover where they were running to. Sicko, but not crazy.

Someone like this can still be crazy while being calculated.  Look at the Columbine or Aurora theater shootings.  The perpetrators in both of those incidents were hardly sane, but they had well laid out plans to assure maximum casualties.  

We will eventually find out what motivated this guy.  Someone who pulls a mass casualty effort like this usually has some sort of manifesto to explain why they did what they did. 

(10-02-2017, 01:31 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(10-02-2017, 01:26 PM)FBT Wrote: There are videos on YouTube showing how to, and then the end result.  As I mentioned above, I've actually seen one using a Glock 17.  I don't believe they even needed any special components.  Using a few tools most households have, they were able to make the mod to take it from semi to fully automatic. It served no purpose other than for laughs at the range.  Now, this was a gun shop that demonstrated how easily any semi-automatic weapon could be converted, but it doesn't require a gunsmith to make the modifications.  That much was clear.

I do agree that the threat of prison time is a big motivator to NOT do the conversion.  I also think that for most gun owners, anything that devalues a weapon is usually avoided since most firearms are a pretty significant investment.  Still, you can go buy a dirt cheap High Point and convert it if you want, turning it into basically an Uzi.

Not to get off topic, but if you modified a High Point, you'd have constant jams. Those guns can barely handle being semi-automatic, much less automatic.

lol - They are garbage, but you get the point. 

(10-02-2017, 01:32 PM)rollerjag Wrote: The sad fact is we would have to live in an unacceptable police state to keep guns out of the hands of someone who would do something like this.

It's difficult to sniff someone out if they maintain a law abiding lifestyle, don't have any overt displays of mental illness, or open hostilities that might tip their hand to potential evil doing.  It's possible this guy had issues that would have been red flags, and it's also possible that he was able to obtain firearms illegally had they been known.  All of this will eventually come out.  There's a whole lot of speculation about what motivated this, but nobody knows for sure at this point.

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