IMO the shooter did not need to strive for accuracy. If only a third of his bullets found their mark in that crowd, that’s still a lot of strikes. A panicked crowd stampede did the rest.
The guy has 20,000 targets and 72 minutes. Shocked he didn’t kill more. This was like shooting fish in a barrel so I don’t buy this story.
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So... the stadium scene.
I rather doubt that any such proof exists.
I have some military training, and I majored in mathematics and know something of probability.
It is true that accuracy at 500 yards with assault rifles shooting on a simulated fully automatic would suck.
But the shot grouping is not necessarily a function of accuracy, but of rate of fire and luck. If one person is hit by three bullets and another by 3...out of dozens of bullets spayed all at once, there is no evidence that the bullets weren't distributed fairly randomly in the area around them.
Moreover his contention that a non-military person would lack the logistical skill to smuggle that much equipment in is just stupid. Just about anybody could figure out how to just hide stuff in a lot of suitcases and take a lot of suitcases up. When they hell have you seen hotel personel checking suitcases when one checks in? Or counting them? Or counting how many trips one makes? He wasn't boarding an airplane.
His claimed expertise is being pushed way too far.
It was an area target. He had optics and a tripod.
Not difficult.
Fish in a barrel comes to mind.
He did not have to shoot at individual targets.
The fellow is talking about a single person as a target, not a dense crowd. That changes things completely. That is the sort of target that never happens (anymore) in warfare. Aiming is irrelevant, as the target is not an individual but at worst clumps of people many yards around.
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As for not being caught by hotel staff, the guy checked in with 10 bags. Hotel staff helped him to his room. He declined cleaning services and would not allow room service food delivery into his room. So there may well be an issue with staff training. But if you have been to Vegas, they are very busy and they see all kinds of weird stuff. As an example, O.J. went to a Vegas hotel room where they were selling sports memorabilia to steal his stuff back. I imagine those guys had a lot of bags to transport their goods.
I have some faith the investigation will reveal the truth. But to the point of the article, I was in the Army for 22 years, I qualified on a lot of weapons. I was the Range Officer for the SRT for a couple of years at one duty station. And I was on the Commanding Generals Pistol Team at Ft. Belvoir many years ago. I don't know the truth yet, but I am not seeing Rambo here. JMHO.
No truer words were ever spoken.
Bears repeating, endlessly.
Sounds also like possibly an egotistical commando brain who writes in plenty of First Person style, happy to demonstrate how much he knows, what he opines, and therefore we must bank all of it, forthwith.
I really prefer generally to see and hear who it is speaking.
Lee Harvey Oswald, and Charles Whitman has much less densely populated target fields.
Seems like weak sauce to me.
Dude is full of it.
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Chicken?
Far be it for a former blue-suiter such as myself to contradict the 8 years of experience by Marine Acree, but I don't think that the Marine Corps gave Marine Acree much training on the Slide Fire Solutions bump fire stock, operation of which relies on forward pressure applied to the foregrip and the free ability of the weapon to recoil into the shoulder.
Not something that can be done with any reliability from a bipod or tripod.
I also don't think that Marine Acree has any experience with 22,000 targets herded into an acre and a half of space, and how many hits one could make without any magnified optics at all.
Paddock had red dot sights on his bump fire stock equipped rifles, and a red dot is plenty accurate enough to lob rounds into the concert area.
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A real rifleman would have killed 100+ with less wounded.