According to the brother of the Las Vegas mass murderer, when Stephen Paddock moved to the area just over a year ago, he brought with him “maybe a couple of handguns.” If that’s accurate, then he assembled an astounding arsenal in an amazingly short period of time.
In his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, police recovered 23 weapons, including a handgun, and multiple rifles -- some had scopes on them. Authorities also found several pounds of ammonium nitrate, a material used to make explosives, in his car.
Police also searched the gunman's home in Mesquite, Nevada, where they found at least 19 firearms, explosives, several thousand rounds of ammunition and some electronic devices.
That’s 42 guns. Even if Paddock’s brother missed a few when packing up for the move, it seems that he bought at three dozen guns in the space of a year. Two of those weapons, a rifle and a shotgun, were purchased from a Las Vegas area gun dealer. An unknown number came from a gun dealer in Mesquite, where Paddock had his home.
Christopher Sullivan, general manager of Guns & Guitars, did not say what weapons Paddock, who lived in Mesquite, had bought.
"All necessary background checks and procedures were followed, as required by local, state, and federal law. He never gave any indication or reason to believe he was unstable or unfit at any time," Sullivan said in a statement.
It appears that Paddock may have purchased guns from at least three other area shops, as well as visiting local ranges. If each of those shops sold Paddock only one or two weapons, it’s easy to understand that none of them might have seen anything unusual. But neither did the FBI.
And that’s by design.
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