Thread by @fishinabarrel1

Did they go out on Saturday to practice shooting with bump stocks, adjust their vertical fore grips, and get used to the sights? #LasVegasShooting

There's an open shooting range just 16 miles from the Mandalay Bay. It's really just open desert where people go to shoot automatic weapons and blow up tannerite and stuff like that. #LasVegasShooting

goo.gl/maps/MKx4tta3u…

It's so secluded that in recent years there have been incidents of MS13 gang members ambushing people who are shooting out there, and robbing them of their guns. #LasVegasShooting

goo.gl/maps/NMfc5b68D… <-Video

Paddock might have known about this place, because from 2003-2010 or so (prior to the robberies), he lived only 9.9 miles away from it. #LasVegasShooting

The 14 AR-15s that Paddock brought all had bump stocks and vertical fore grips, and 6 of them had EOTech sights like this, which are for close range combat or hunting. The other 8 had no optics. #LasVegasShooting

You might think he just brought guns with whatever sights he had, but there are a couple of things that indicate the short range EOTechs were brought for a purpose, and were paired with the bump stocks on the cheaper AR-15s. #LasVegasShooting

The first is that he ordered an EOTech 512 A65 Tactical Holographic sight from Amazon on Sept. 7th, just 24 days before the shooting. That was probably his 6th and final EOTech purchase. #LasVegasShooting

Second, he left five AR-15s with long range scopes at home, and none with the EOTechs. In fact, he didn’t bring any AR-15s with regular scopes, he left them ALL at home, and brought all of the AR-15s with EOTechs with him. #LasVegasShooting

So I think in the original plan, the 7 rifles with long range scopes were intended to be used from the windows, while the ones with short range optics or no optics at all, just bump stocks, were intended to be used like a turkey shoot at street level. #LasVegasShooting

That implies 14+ accomplices, and they'd want to get used to the bump stocks and EOTechs, and adjust the fore grips to the length of their individual arms. #LasVegasShooting

Which brings me to a curious report I came across in the police logs. It's on PDF 12, pg 146. A silver Jeep Cherokee pulls up to a 7-11 at 10:55pm on 10/1 and leaves a pallet with gun range targets attached, all shot up, right at the front door, then leaves. #LasVegasShooting

Best explanation I came up with is that they wanted the police to get it, but they didn't want to turn it in themselves, probably because they are guilty of something. But the implication is that someone went shooting out in the desert. #LasVegasShooting

They redacted the address of the 7-11 at the top, but they accidentally left it in at the bottom. Here's where it is, 4 miles from Route 91. #LasVegasShooting

7-Eleven has footage of the drop-off, and the LVMPD took the targets, the pallet and any bullets lodged in it as possible evidence at 10am on 10/2. The end. #LasVegasShooting

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