First I'm hearing of this. Doesn't mean you didn't post it but it does mean if you did I didn't read it.
Mass shooting in Las Vegas
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No offense but I really wish you'd change your avatar; I don't like the way your posts sound in my head, now. :biggrin2:
I think I've mentioned it obliquely. I don't think I've started a thread about it...
Word late yesterday was that he had indeed used multiple weapons.
Still sick about this today. Too many good people died too early for no good reason.
The same morning this happened a colleague had a man she didn't know go into her horse barn to shoot a big buck in there eating the horses' feed. Her dogs alerted her. Her trained, bomb sniffing police dogs. They alerted their firearms licensed dealer master. The dogs took the man down and she kept him at gunpoint until her police friends arrived. The guy though it would be ok to waltz into her barn. I guess he intended to drag the deer out and din't know her at all or he would have known better.
Lots of stories are coming out about people acting bravely in the chaos. Of people helping one another and placing themselves in harm's way to do so. Of narrow escapes. Of people completely unharmed while people on every side are killed.
Folks, cherish those you love while you can.
Still sick about this today. Too many good people died too early for no good reason.
The same morning this happened a colleague had a man she didn't know go into her horse barn to shoot a big buck in there eating the horses' feed. Her dogs alerted her. Her trained, bomb sniffing police dogs. They alerted their firearms licensed dealer master. The dogs took the man down and she kept him at gunpoint until her police friends arrived. The guy though it would be ok to waltz into her barn. I guess he intended to drag the deer out and din't know her at all or he would have known better.
Lots of stories are coming out about people acting bravely in the chaos. Of people helping one another and placing themselves in harm's way to do so. Of narrow escapes. Of people completely unharmed while people on every side are killed.
Folks, cherish those you love while you can.
UPDATE - Las Vegas shooting: At least 59 dead, explosives found in gunman's car
Think we can agree either the guy's family didn't keep up with him if they don't believe he was a gun enthusiast while cops found 30+ in the hotel and his house or he was doing someone else's work.
Plus, the ammonium nitrate in his car? Something doesn't add up at all.
Has anyone heard the rumor that he was a very recent convert to Islam?
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I remember when you posted about the need to start carrying again. All you stated at that time was that it was related to an issue at work.
Yes, but that doesn't really mean much. ISIS claimed responsibility when I stubbed my toe last week.
ISIS claimed responsibility when I accidentally poured skim in my coffee instead of 2%.
Interesting. None of the clips I've seen/heard had a bump. That's why I posted the YouTube clip, to show the difference. The bump is easily twice as fast as the clip of the massacre. It's not pop-pop-pop. It's pa-pa-pop. The shots almost run into each other since they're cycling as fast as the mechanism will move. I probably should tell this, but recently I used my AR to take out a groundhog I'd trapped. I tried with my pellet gun, but it didn't have enough power. Just in time, I remembered to lock the bump or it would have been embarrassing. It was on the 4th of July, thank goodness. I have something more reasonable, and without a muzzle brake, now for that chore.
On the radio this morning, they played clips of the police traffic. They located him almost immediately and one man was on the floor below him in minutes. I wonder why they waited an hour, even with all of the obvious reasons for caution. He did a lot of damage in the meantime. Other things about the timeline also bother me - the actual interval of the active fire and the total until he was taken down, for example...
I saw something last night saying some officers got to his room, but Paddox shot through the door at them. That led to the officers waiting on SWAT to arrive.
Not sure if that's true or not.
LOL at Murray! I hadn't thought of the comparison. In addition to the bump stock, my AR has a muzzle brake, which makes it twice as loud, because the gases are directed upward and to the side to defeat muzzle hop. This is particularly important with a bump stock, to keep on target. I have a .22 with "Suppressor" rounds for the pests...
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You may already know this but there is something very cathartic, even pleasing, about taking out such pests with a much larger caliber round. :biggrin2:
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