Paddock may have had fully automatic weapons - or guns legally modified to act like themĪ law enforcement official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said authorities believe Paddock had at least two such weapons.Ĭlark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo confirmed that officials believe at least some of the guns found in the hotel room were modified, possibly to allow for more rapid fire.įully automatic firearms can fire as many rounds as their magazines, drums or belts hold by simply pulling and holding the trigger - whereas semi-automatic weapons require a trigger pull for each round fired. Police believe Paddock smuggled the weapons into the hotel using more than 10 suitcases, which he methodically brought to the hotel room one-by-one. 223 (used in AR-15 semi-automatic rifles), and a handgun was also among the weapons. 308 (used in hunting rifles, for example) to. The firearms found in Paddock's hotel room had calibres ranging from. That's on top of the 19 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition found at Paddock's home in nearby Mesquite, Nevada.Ī search of his car also turned up a supply of ammonium nitrate, the fertilizer used to form the explosives used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of a federal office building that killed 168 people. Police say they found 23 guns in his hotel room
Here's what we know about the weapons he used to do this and how he may have been able to access them. Stephen Paddock fired on the crowd of 22,000 people from more than 300 metres away, from the window of his 32nd-floor hotel room. The murder of 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas has reopened America's debate about gun laws ( even if there's little prospect of anything changing).
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