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Millionaire Vegas gunman who killed 59 people and hurt 527 took TWENTY THREE guns in TEN bags into Mandalay Bay sniper’s nest where he put legally converted full-auto assault rifles on tripods
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- Stephen Paddock killed at least 59 people and injured 527 when he opened fire on concertgoers Sunday
- A SWAT Team blew open the door to Las Vegas suite he was using as a sniper nest, but he’d shot himself dead
- Cops recovered 23 guns, some with scopes and military-grade ammo, two with tripods, at least one full auto
- Other semi-auto weapons had been modified with legal bump-stocks that simulate fully automatic fire
- He’d smashed two windows of his corner suite to create a kill box at the Route 91 Harvest music festival below
- He also had 19 other guns, as well as explosives and as-yet-undetermined electronic devices, at his home
- Paddock, 64, made a fortune in real estate but also gambled heavily on poker and slot machines, brother said
- He lived in a $400,000 retirement home with girlfriend Marilou Danley, 62, who is currently in Tokyo, Japan
- Paddock had no criminal record, no army training and no religious or political affiliations, his brother said
- Police are still trying to figure out his motive – other than his gambling, his life appeared largely unremarkable
- Paddock’s father was a ‘psychopathic’ serial bank robber who spent eight years on the FBI Most Wanted list
- People trying to locate missing family members in Las Vegas should call 1-800-536-9488
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The man who shot dead 59 people and injured 527 others in Las Vegas on Sunday night was a multimillionaire who took a huge arsenal of 23 guns into his Mandalay Bay hotel room, which he transformed into an elaborate sniper’s nest before opening fire on a country music festival.
Stephen Paddock, 64, had made millions from real estate deals, according to his brother; he also owned two planes and several properties across the US, and seemed normal apart from his passion for gambling large sums.
But he’d also secretly amassed a massive arsenal of 42 firearms. At least one of those was automatic, while another two had been modified with legal bump-stock devices that allows semi-automatic guns to give full-auto fire of up to 800 rounds a minute. Several had scopes, and packed military-grade ammunition.
He took 23 of those guns into his Mandalay Bay suite over several days and set up two rifles on tripods at windows overlooking the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
Thousands of rounds of ammunition were also found in the suite, enabling him to fire repeatedly over the course of 72 minutes. His car had several pounds of a fertilizer used in bomb-making.
Paddock had lived in 27 residences in Nevada, Florida and Texas as an adult, but other than that he had apparently lived a quiet and unremarkable life – and the reason for the most deadly assault in American history remains a mystery.
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Stephen Paddock, 64, turned his luxury Las Vegas hotel suite into a sniper’s nest on Sunday by smashing open two windows on the hotel’s corner and setting up two guns on tripods before opening fire on the Route 91 Harvest music festival below



























