Seems no amount of answers stop such questions.
Check-in dates reported come from fragmentary evidence. It’s a matter of reporting, not hotel logs (which aren’t being officially released). _When_ he arrived is pretty irrelevant to the fact that he inflicted near 600 casualties.
Firing a bump-stock rifle for most of a 100-round magazine isn’t that hard. Doesn’t take long to figure out how to do it. This isn’t rocket surgery, it’s a few hours at the range and the money for practice ammo. When one gun malfunctioned, he just picked up the next of two dozen rifles.
Those “shooter on lower floor” videos have been debunked. There were flashing lights (fire alarms, entertainment strobes, whatever). What I’ve seen blinked after the last shots.
The exits were blocked because venues don’t want people sneaking in after the concert starts. Dumb, maybe illegal, but standard procedure.
People bringing lots of luggage into a hotel room isn’t bizarre. Conferences sometimes require lots of gear. Long stays may bring much luggage. None of the hotel’s business. And no, 23 guns plus ammo really don’t take up all that much space if compactly stored.
It’s stupid easy to do. Pay porter to bring luggage to room. Set up. Smash window. Grab gun, fire until empty/failure, repeat.
Lots of guns because he didn’t know how long he had nor what he’d need. Again, not hard to bring ‘em. When one fails, grab another.
Yes there will be a ballistic report on the suicide. Not our business to know yet. I’ve seen the photo, matches the claim (entry wound under chin, lots o blood emanating from top/back of skull).
Flashes were reported by witnesses, and recorded on better video cameras. Worse video cameras probably can’t pick up that brief image in such a well-lit (!) area. The rifles used typically come with flash suppressors.
“Overlapping gunfire” is characteristic of echos. There’s lots of big reflective surfaces in the area.
Fire near-full-auto into a large dense crowd, and you’ll (A) kill a lot of people, (B) injure a lot of people, (C) scare a lot of people enough that they’ll hurt themselves & each other in the process.
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“entry wound under chin”?
There is NO entry wound under his chin.
There is blood on his shirt.
Regarding the shooter’s suicide photo. Wouldn’t a headshot under the chin, exiting out the back/top of head produce a very messy scene with blood and brains spattered everywhere?
How are the bullets around his head are spot free? Why only a pool of blood below the bullets and no spatter marks?