Massacre in Las Vegas

Quote: Ayecarumba

A .22 rimfire can travel 1.5 miles, but not very accurately. You run the risk of killing innocent people in adjoining rooms/floors.

If properly trained, iron sights would do. A scope would not have been needed, and at night probably would not be very effective anyway.

Not at a mile and a half, but at 200 yards and under, .22 has held many accuracy records over the years.
There are more deer killed with .22 than any other caliber.

https://books.google.com/books?id=JNwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=does+twenty+two+caliber+hold+any+accuracy+records&source=bl&ots=HZAythrVDe&sig=TjcFk6ZgAwMIF3FS1wZB70zYslU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx-pe-2trWAhUBTmMKHbY8AwoQ6AEITjAG#v=onepage&q=does%20twenty%20two%20caliber%20hold%20any%20accuracy%20records&f=false ten rounds at 200 yards can be covered up with a dime. But certainly not the gun to get in a firefight with. Just love me some .22's.

I think most squad cars in the country carry something like an ar15 now since the bank shootout in Cali. a few years ago, where the robbers had automatic AK's and shot the crap out of the cops.

http://www.policemag.com/blog/patrol-tactics/story/2014/10/police-rifles-why-we-carry-what-we-do.aspx

UK uses armed response units well trained in "clear shot", background, good guy/bad guy issues. USA arms all cops and has things like unarmed mental patients sitting on the ground getting shot etc.

32nd floor info seems vital.

Seems he had room overlooking a concern two months earlier.

One year acquisition schedule eliminates drug reaction.

Texas Tower had shelter, Mandalay shooter did not have any rampart, just a window (physical) and a window of opportunity (first few shots into dense crowd).

Quote: Fleastiff

Ballistics question: How small and light a weapon would have been suitable for someone on the ground to fire at the muzzle flashes effectively if not utterly successfully? Would a scope sight have been needed?

Saw Las Vegas SWAT address this. SWAT sniper wants at least a near level elevation to take out shooter and they didn't have that anywhere near enough.

Even though he didn''t have a rampart, apparently, he was standing back in the room. In other words, he could see the area he was shooting at but he had the floor roof and walls blocking anyone from taking a shot at him from a closer range than the field he was shooting into.

Even from other room locations on the same floor it was apparently difficult to get a shot at him even if they had gotten set up to do so.

The FBI is more upset that somebody can have
such a small digital footprint to elude them,
than they are about the shooting itself. How
dare somebody outsmart them like this..

Quote: rxwine

SWAT sniper wants at least a near level elevation to take out shooter and they didn't have that anywhere near enough.

LV SWAT is a Slow Adapter.
It would only have been a .22 round but any of the armed UAVs hobbyists use could have displayed a FPV aspect of the shooter and his environment and fired a single .22 round on command. The quadcopter is not even two feet in diameter and less than five pounds.

Trivia Time

What was the deadliest day in Las Vegas history?

The one that involves what is now a Caesars property.

Quote: Wizard

Trivia Time

What was the deadliest day in Las Vegas history?

When Ahigh won 10mil at craps? Oh, wait..

Quote: Wizard

Trivia Time

What was the deadliest day in Las Vegas history?

Quote: Ayecarumba

My Guess

The MGM fire? My second guess would be a plane crash, but nothing comes to mind

That is correct!