By Rio Yamat, AP The high-roller gambler who opened fire on concertgoers on the Las Vegas Strip had lost tens of thousands of dollars while gambling weeks before the mass shooting and was upset about how the casinos had treated him, according to FBI documents made public this week. The documents reveal the strongest indication of a … Read more
By Ken Ritter, AP A court on Wednesday approved a total of $800 million in payouts from casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the Las Vegas Strip shooting that was the deadliest in recent U.S. history. The action makes final a deal announced earlier this … Read more
I have written extensively on the subject of bump-fire stocks (or “bump-stock-type devices” (BSTD), as the ATF so charmingly refers to them), and why they matter beyond their suddenly being designated as “machineguns” or their uncompensated taking. Too extensively for some, who didn’t want “to die on Bump Stock Hill,” when we had other things … Read more
Below is an Associated Press report on this, the two-year anniversary of the Mandalay Bay shooting. It’s a textbook example of “push journalism.” Titled Las Vegas Massacre Anniversary Sparks Debate on Gun Control, it asserts — with no evidence at all — that the anniversary of the shooting is providing new fire for the gun … Read more
President Trump ordered the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to re-regulate bump fire stocks after the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay shooting. The three-letter agency, which had approved the use of the stocks under the Obama administration, took a second look at the devices and decided that these pieces of plastic are really machine guns. … Read more
By MarkPA I’d like to pose a question to the experts on this topic: Is there a gun-control measure that could mitigate the risk of mass shootings in public venues, such as the one that occurred at the Gilroy Garlic Festival? Whenever society is besieged by important problems, it turns to experts for insight. In … Read more
We received the link to the proposed new rule that would regulate bump fire stocks from someone with intimate knowledge of the process earlier today. You can read that rule here. However, we have since been informed that the ATF has not yet published that rule in the federal register. As such it has not … Read more
If you somehow haven’t noticed, one of the most controversial firearm accessories these days are “bump fire stocks,” which a few states have hastily outlawed along with a supposed impending (at the time of this writing) federal ban pending according to the current administration. In the current political climate, many people want to see bump … Read more
Four New York Times journalists have compiled dozens of bits of video and audio evidence captured during the Mandalay Bay shooting. They’ve matched time stamps and even audio signatures to assemble an impressive timeline of Stephen Paddock’s attack on the concert crowd below. The video doesn’t address questions that remain about when hotel security and … Read more
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