For 10 minutes, Paddock shot nearly continuously at the country music festival. The DOJ says without bump stocks, the death toll perhaps would have been lower.<\/p>\n
The ATF estimates that between 280,000 and 520,000 bump stocks have been sold since 2010. There are opponents to outlawing the accessories.<\/p>\n
\nThey (federal government) were just looking for a scapegoat. And they found one,” Utah Shooting Sports Council Chairman Clark Aposhian told Fox News<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Women Against Gun Control founder Janalee Tobias added, “Guns are harder to get than they ever have been but evil people still get guns.”<\/p>\n
Investigation Update<\/b><\/h2>\n
It’s been more than 14 months since the Las Vegas shooting, and the federal government still hasn’t issued its final report on the massacre. The FBI has missed several planned publication dates.<\/p>\n
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Metro Police closed its own investigation in August. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said many question had been answered, but the most important one — why — still has no definitive conclusion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“By all accounts, Stephen Paddock was an unremarkable man,” Lombardo stated. “His movements leading up to October 1 did not raise any suspicion.”<\/p>\n
The FBI’s report is expected to detail the forensic examinations of all the physical evidence recovered in Paddock’s suite, as well as an extensive medical autopsy and a study of his brain.<\/p>\n
The odds of the FBI review settling on a definitive motive, however, are likely long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bump stocks, the controversial accessory that allows semiautomatic weapons to fire quicker, are being banned by the Trump administration a little more than a year after they were used in the Las Vegas shooting that killed 58 people. Bump stocks “bump” the gun’s recoil to allow the machine to trigger faster. The Bureau of Alcohol, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":95047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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