Shooting at Las Vegas casino

FBI and DHS Assessment Outlined Threat of Lone Offenders Targeting Las Vegas

 

THINGS MORE HEAVILY REGULATED
THAN BUYING A GUN IN THE UNITED STATES

Having a fucking bake sale

Building a fucking shed in your own backyard

Pumping fucking gas

Getting a fucking vasectomy

Owning a fucking car

Driving someone else’s fucking car

Riding in a fucking car

Disposing of fucking batteries

Cutting fucking hair for a living

Having a controlled bonfire on your own fucking property

Owning a fucking dog

Walking a fucking dog

Selling a fucking mattress

Watching a fucking DVD

Holding any sort of public fucking performance

Importing foreign fucking cheese

Changing your last fucking name to your spouse’s

Buying fucking fireworks

Riding a fucking bicycle

Having a fucking swimming pool

Xeroxing and distributing copyrighted fucking material

Transporting a bottle of opened fucking wine home from a restaurant

Using a fucking skateboard

Buying unpasteurized fucking milk

Recycling

List: Things More Heavily Regulated Than Buying a Gun in the United States

 

Given how we have no problem using the PATRIOT act to sniff out terror suspects by web activity and cell phones, I'm surprised there isn't some algorithm that would sniff out interest in guns/large venues/scopes/history of other mass shootings/recent purchase of a lot of ammo or guns - really shouldn't be that hard. Not saying you arrest people or even get a search warrant, but give them a closer look at least.

 

Wait, why isn't that "fucking recycling"?

 

She was watching her language there.

 

A NYT reporter (and former Marine) has a short scene-setter video ...

 

Narrowly speaking, YF was right. It wasn't a full auto M4, which is listed as having a 700 to 900 round per minute rate of fire. It was an M4 with a bump stock, which has no mechanical moving parts, and delivers a slower rate of fire, something in the neighborhood of 6oo rounds a minute.

OTOH, YF, the bottom line is that when the rifle is putting ten rounds a second down range, so far as the people there are concerned there is no difference at all. None. That's why people are (ahem) sticking to their guns on the issue, and you know that's true too.

 

How the Vegas Shooter Could've Gotten a Banned Automatic Rifle

Wired has a good article on how one could make slight adjustments to turn a semi-automatic rifle into replicating an automatic rifle, with all of the carnage it can produce.

But let's never forget that Yankeefan was the one who pointed out that this was not an automatic rifle, just one that can produce the same amount of killing that an automatic rifle can do. Because when there are still bodies on the ground, it is important to delineate the difference between a fully automatic rifle and one that's been adjusted to produce the same destruction. That's what's important.
When it's the greatest mass shooting in United States history, we were instructed early that the form of the gun is what matters, not the results. Yankeefan nailed it.

 

I've seen reports that he had ten large suitcases in that suite. Apparently he also had scoped out the rooms and got one with two windows which would work as sniper nests. To answer the question a while back about the windows, he had a large hammer of some sort which he broke them out with. He probably set up on tables a bit back from the windows, where he could set up a gun rest and see out, while the gun flashes and he himself would be harder to see.

This thing was planned out pretty meticulously.

 

My guess is that their payments will simply be business as usual. The threat that is on the table (even if it is unspoken) is that any GOP Congressman who makes a move to support new gun laws will face an extremely well funded opponent in his next primary election.

 

You are the meme king

 

The overuse of "fucking" ruins that.

I suppose she thought it was a clever way of emphasizing the point, but instead it's just an annoying distraction from it.