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How do you carry that much gear into your room, along with the materials to assemble two platforms, without anyone noticing anything awry?
From the Daily Mail:
The man who shot dead 59 people and injured 527 others in Las Vegas on Sunday night was a multimillionaire who took a huge arsenal of 23 guns into his Mandalay Bay hotel room, which he transformed into an elaborate sniper's nest before opening fire on a country music festival.
Stephen Paddock, 64, had made millions from real estate deals, according to his brother; he also owned two planes and several properties across the US, and seemed normal apart from his passion for gambling large sums. But he'd also secretly amassed a massive arsenal of 42 firearms.
At least one of those was automatic, while another two had been modified with legal bump-stock devices that allows semi-automatic guns to give full-auto fire of up to 800 rounds a minute. Several had scopes, and packed military-grade ammunition.
He took 23 of those guns into his Mandalay Bay suite over several days and set up two rifles on tripods at windows overlooking the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
Thousands of rounds of ammunition were also found in the suite, enabling him to fire repeatedly over the course of 72 minutes.
His car had several pounds of a fertilizer used in bomb-making. He also set up a camera in his room, apparently to film the mass murder, and others in the hallway to capture police arriving.
Before carrying out the shooting, he used a hammer-like tool to smash out two window in his room which he used to fire out of. ...
he had used 10 suitcases to methodically move an arsenal up into his Mandalay Bay room over the preceding weekend ...
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So, is he from the IS / Daesh, or not?
They say he is.
But, it doesn't seem like it.
I haven't really believed much of anything I have read on him so far. None of it makes sense.
The Operation Northwoods thing I posed seems to make as much sense as anything else.
The only problem with that scenario is there is no immediately obvious political motive.
I have a very hard time buying the "one lone individual" idea.
UKDAILYMAIL EXCLUSIVE: The missing gun: Stephen Paddock bought a high-powered Ruger rifle just hours before arriving in Las Vegas, but the $600 weapon was NOT found among his 23-weapon arsenal of death
Stephen Paddock bought a Ruger American .308 bolt-action rifle with an 18-inch barrel for $600 from Guns & Guitars just hours before arriving in Las Vegas
The rifle was not part of the 23-weapon arsenal found in his sniper's nest in the Mandalay Bay Hotel
Gunshop worker Skipper Speece revealed Paddock was 'calm and normal' when he bought the weapon at around 3pm on September 28
Skipper said Paddock was a regular visitor to the store and he had served him four times in total
Marilou Danley, who police named a person of interest in the case, also came in to the shop once, but Skipper said nothing seemed amiss
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NYT: "Ms. Danley is being represented by Matthew Lombard, a criminal defense lawyer." Her attorney worked on the Oklahoma bombing case:
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Mr. Lombard began his legal career after completing a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and his Juris Doctorate from George Washington University School of Law. While in law school, he was chosen from a large pool of candidates to work on the Terry L. Nichols Defense Team in Denver, Colorado. He then moved onto the highly-regarded Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. for several years before moving to Los Angeles in 2004 where he became a federal public defender. He founded Lombard Law in 2006 and has since been representing clients in both federal and state matters nationwide.
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