[tomkat]

This was preplanned

Agreed .. logistically too much for spur of the moment.

[fwdude]

I wonder if he already owned this FULLY AUTOMATIC weapon, which required registration, or if he acquired it right before the shooting spree.

[caww]

Was in the hotel from sept 28th on

[vladimir998]

It was just announced that he checked in to the hotel on September 28th so he had three full days to set up for this horrible massacre.

[Balding_Eagle]

What unusual logistics would need to be involved?

[PUGACHEV]

I'd like to hear from someone who is more familiar with automatic weapons than I am. I am sure there are plenty of people here with that knowledge. I'd like to know if this was actually an automatic weapon or whether it was being bump fired. It seemed to have the right rhythm based on the few times I have heard automatic fire, but then it seemed to break rhythm a few times. Is that possible? It seemed to fire more than thirty rounds at once, making it more likely belt fed, but I don't know.

The point is that if this were a fully automatic belt fed weapon, then quite a bit of planning must have been involved even just to acquire such a system, as opposed to a semi auto being bump fired from a magazine, which could be done at spur of the moment.