(10-03-2017, 10:57 AM)FBT Wrote:

(10-03-2017, 09:21 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: 23 guns seems excessive and unnecessary for one person to perpetrate what he did.  Even if he thought 1 or more guns might jam, having just a few extras should have been sufficient in his mind to ensure he could keep firing. He lugged 23 guns to the 32nd floor so 20 of them (or however many sat unfired) could just sit there?  It's been reported that he had two rifles fitted with bump stocks to simulate the action of an automatic rifle. I didn't hear much if any single fire shots on any of the audio so he was probably primarily using one of the bump stock rifles or alternating between the two.  Sounds to me like there's a possibility he might have expected to have some help that may not have shown.

Not all of the guns they found were rifles.  So, not all of them were intended to be used to shoot at the concert crowd.  We don't know how many weapons he actually fired during the time he was actively attacking the crowd.  As quickly as these weapons cycled through a magazine, it's pretty likely he used several weapons before reloading and starting over.

It doesn't sound like there's a grand conspiracy here at all, but we'll have to wait and see what evidence they dig up.  On the face of it, it looks like some lunatic who just snapped and decided to unleash hell on innocent victims.  There's  been no motive released, or any kind of explanation for this.  I think he was stockpiled with weapons hoping to have enough time to use as many as possible, and in that regard, he was tragically successful.

So far they've reported that 2 of the rifles had bump stocks.  That's not to say that he had not converted any of the other rifles he had in the room to be fully automatic.  This was a guy who had the financial resources to do this any way he saw fit unfortunately.