Vegas Shooting
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Another mass shooting, this time in Vegas. Some pathetic scumbag raining bullets down on a crowd of around 20,000 with a fully automatic weapon. I fear the fatalities will be high for this one. How farking twisted do you have to be...
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@antipodean That's harrowing. Got knows how many rounds fired. I guess now wait to see if it's the usual Seppo nut job with a small dick or some Islamist in search of his 72 raisins.
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@no-quarter said in Vegas Shooting:
Another mass shooting, this time in Vegas. Some pathetic scumbag raining bullets down on a crowd of around 20,000 with a fully automatic weapon. I fear the fatalities will be high for this one. How farking twisted do you have to be...
It was a country music festival in the middle of a bunch of hotels that had been twanging away all weekend. There's only so much a man can take....
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Apparently, the shooter's girlfriend is Australian.
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@antipodean being named as Marilou Danley
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@nta said in Vegas Shooting:
@antipodean being named as Marilou Danley
Reported that she's since been found and interviewed.
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@crucial Did you Google him by name or by "vacuous waste of space"?
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@catogrande said in Vegas Shooting:
@crucial Did you Google him by name or by "vacuous waste of space"?
By name. The result that mentioned instagram made the second part obvious.
People whose claim to fame is derived by taking a photo of their dinner? Sheesh. -
You can open carry an assault weapon in Vegas.
Better put some more more extreme vetting on those borders for the tourists though.
Fucked up country!
Edit: apparently open carry is completely legal throughout Nevada except in a few designated places like any govt building or legislature. So the law makers won't control it except to protect themselves.
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@no-quarter said in Vegas Shooting:
Another mass shooting, this time in Vegas. Some pathetic scumbag raining bullets down on a crowd of around 20,000 with a fully automatic weapon. I fear the fatalities will be high for this one. How farking twisted do you have to be...
Not sure fully automatic, apparently they actually ARE tightly regulated in the States. Semi-automatic on the other hand...don't ever see the American fixation with the right to have a gun ever changing.
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@billy-tell said in Vegas Shooting:
@no-quarter said in Vegas Shooting:
Another mass shooting, this time in Vegas. Some pathetic scumbag raining bullets down on a crowd of around 20,000 with a fully automatic weapon. I fear the fatalities will be high for this one. How farking twisted do you have to be...
Not sure fully automatic, apparently they actually ARE tightly regulated in the States. Semi-automatic on the other hand...don't ever see the American fixation with the right to have a gun ever changing.
Dunno if you saw the vid that @antipodean posted earlier (seems to have got lost now) but to this untrained ear it seemed to be a fully automatic weapon the killer was using. I've also seen some pics of the site and he was shooting from some way away, downhill from the 32nd floor. That distance, with that accuracy (OK big target but shooting downhill is easy to fire high) with that rate of fire equals one hell of a weapon I'd have thought.
You'd certainly hope that fully automatic weapons are tightly regulated but the evidence would suggest it isn't very effective.
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@catogrande caught a few things about tweaks that can get made to semi's - to increase rate of fire etc. He had like 10 guns with him? so he may have lined them up and just shot them dry.
Filth, pure filth. But if you have bad, bad apples, and you allow guns to be freely available...
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@paekakboyz The vid that @antipodean posted seemed to show almost continuous fire, so yeah he could have bled each one dry I guess but they would have to have been very large capacity mags. Somewhere near 600 hits too. That's some fucked up shit all right.
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Selling automatic weapons is not illegal - selling automatic components is not.
You can buy bits of a firearm of almost any type in the USA and refit what you need to get the result you want.
For example, if you've got USD$8k you can not only buy the semi-auto version of the FN M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon):
FNH USA to release semi-auto version of the M249 to the public -
FNH USA has announced a new semi-auto variant of the M249 series that will be available this fall! As far as I know, this is the first time a major manufacturer has released a belt-fed semi-auto to the general public. From our newest writer Rusty S reporting from the NRA show. “This morning I...
You can find or build what you need to replace the firing mechanism.
Thing is, if you fired that (or any other auto weapon) continuously, you'd melt that fucker.
