Earlier they were reporting there was nothing out of the ordinary at the shooter's home.

[spanone]

they were impressed at how 'ordinary' it was.

now i hear they found a huge cache of weapons.

let's hope the truth gets out

[BlueState]

1. Sadly I am starting to think that might be ordinary.

In some parts of the US anyway.

[lapfog_1]

8. Press conference also stated

"a large quantity of explosives" found at the home.

Pretty sure that would be considered "out of the ordinary"...

[MoonRiver]

16. His brother said he was just an average guy!

[Raine1967]

25. I saw that interview.

The brother in Florida said that he saw nothing out of the ordinary, he also said he was not close with his murderous brother.

I read someplace else that a second brother has not talked to him in about 10 years.

[MoonRiver]

29. I can't believe that none of them saw any warning signs,

unless they consider collecting an arsenal of assault weapons "normal."

[womanofthehills]

30. Most average guys have 2 airplanes

and he is "retired" from what?

[MoonRiver]

31. I heard he was an accountant. eom

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Nothing at all unusual , well there

are several Panzer I. and Panzer II. and Panzer III.

German tanks, but other than that, very ordinary.

[ProudLib72]

5. You sure about the tanks?

I heard it was an ack ack gun mounted on the rear of a duece and a half.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. Couple of flame throwers too.

And a huge statue of Adolph in the back yard.

[ProudLib72]

17. Oh come on!

That's absolutely NOTHING. Everybody has a statue of Adolph in their back yard. Why, I just painted mine in pearlescent white to protect it from the winter weather. Now I'm looking into a statue of Benito. I found one close by on Craigs List, but I have no way of transporting it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

18. I am selling an original , signed copy of Mein Kamph, not signed by Adolf, by Trump

[ProudLib72]

22. Are you going to sell a pair of Dotard's underwear, too?

Adolph's went for $7K. If no one wants to buy Dotard's underwear, you could always try to sell it as a circus tent!

[GusBob]

3. I am starting to speculate he has more secrets

Need to hear from his companion

[Demtexan]

4. Some thing is going on.

We may never know.

He was a angry white man.

I hope they search his past really well.

I just wonder why that place at that time.

[spanone]

7. there's a lot of rampant 'speculation' going on by lots of 'experts'

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

6. Sheriff stated he could not deny, was the question

Did paddock work for a federal agency?

Did I hear that right?

[ProudLib72]

9. Wait three months

Then someone might know something.

[spanone]

13. true. probably longer.

[eleny]

10. Early reporting can be such a pant load

I heard that he had a whole bunch of them in his hotel room. But I haven't been able to watch or listen to a lot of minute to minute news today.

[spanone]

12. they initially reported 10 at the hotel...not it's 16 and 18 at the house....fog of war i guess

[eleny]

21. Needing all that weaponry in the first place is a long term mindset, imo

This sounds like it took a heck of a lot of planning. And then getting so much into the hotel room had to take a fair amount of time. It'll take a while to get the straight scoop on him.

[Jim Beard]

27. It can happen very quicklt and he had the money to make it happen.

Most of the others didn't have the resources.

[JoeStuckInOH]

14. I think they meant nothing unusual aside from the guns.

Obviously... he would have had lots of guns & ammo.

[spanone]

20. they didn't report on any guns...this was around 10am...said all appeared normal

maybe they just looked in the window

[malaise]

15. Apparently that's ordinary in Nevada

Apparently you can walk into a hotel with a cache of weapons

[Jim Beard]

34. LasVegas is very close to Kingman Arizona. Remember where the Oklahma City bombing was planned.

[malaise]

36. Tanks for that

Didn't know

[Nevernose]

39. The Nichols family lived here

The kid was in school during the bombing. The 911 hijackers all met here the week before for a final run-down. The Manson Family did their grocery shopping here. I could go on and on like that.

Las Vegas tends to attract weirdos. Sometimes those weirdos are very, very evil.

[oberliner]

42. You can walk into a hotel in any state with a cache of weapons

At no hotel that I know of is your luggage searched upon check in.

[rufus dog]

19. Here is a second ammendment question

What part of 20 weapons fits the 'well regulated' part of the 2A?

[Weekend Warrior]

23. Im with your direction of thought.

Not that you Agee with what follows.

I personally believe the Florida National Guard is a well regulated militia in place with one goal being to protect me from the federal government. This was proven out during the death of Terri Schiavo.

Beyond that I could go as far as saying any well regulated militia should be registered, members and Arsenal’s kept by the militia, and a charter established. That’s as far as I can go. Unfortunatley, the current court strongly disagrees with me on the 2nd’s reading.

[hack89]

26. If he was skilled in their use and they were well maintained

then they were well regulated. Regulated has several definitions.

[rufus dog]

28. I am skilled with many things

Can I go buy unlimited amounts of Sudafed?

[hack89]

37. Cooking meth is not a civil right

Regardless of how skilled you are.

[rufus dog]

40. who the fuck said I was cooking meth? N/T

[hack89]

43. You did I think.

I assumed the two sentences you wrote are related to each other. Perhaps you can decipher your post for me.

[rufus dog]

44. I asked if I could buy mass quantities of sudafed

You jumped to the conclusion that by purchasing mass quantities of sudafed that I was going to use it for illegal means.

Now using that same logic, someone buying mass quantities of automatic weapons (and fuck the semi argument, if a gun can be modified to an automatic it needs to be classified as such) is up to no good.

Now some may say a person shouldn't be able to buy that many guns, others may say that a person buying that many guns should have to go through background checks, perhaps even explain the use for collecting the arsenal, and gun show loopholes should be closed.

[hack89]

45. Fundamental difference

Owning a gun is a civil right. We don't have to justify exercising a civil right to the government. Background checks are fine - the shooter passed several of them. By gun show loop hole I assume you are discussing universal background checks - I support those.

[lunasun]

24. 18 guns and multiple explosives found in the house . New normal?

They are saying he was a real normal guy and had an ordinary home

[BumRushDaShow]

33. And more detail

<...>

The police found an arsenal in the gunman’s hotel room.

At least 17 firearms, including a handgun, were found in Mr. Paddock’s hotel room, said Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Some were rifles equipped with scopes, he said, adding that Mr. Paddock used multiple rifles during the attack.

A federal law enforcement official earlier said there were at least 20 rifles in the suite, along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, including two rifles outfitted with scopes and set up on tripods in front of two big windows. Another official said that among the weapons were AR-15-style assault rifles. Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge details of the investigation.

The police also found ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be used in explosives, in Mr. Paddock’s car in Las Vegas.

In addition to the weapons at the hotel, the sheriff said the police retrieved “in excess of” 18 firearms, as well as explosives, several thousand rounds of ammunition and “electronic devices” from Mr. Paddock’s home in Mesquite, Nev. He said the police were evaluating the electronic devices, which he did not describe.

<...>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-shooting.html

Yup - "typical".

[betsuni]

35. But his father was a pschopathic suicidal criminal.

Just saw that on the news. I'm going with heredity.

[TheOther95Percent]

38. I suspect his DNA may tell LE something

It would not surprise me to learn that he killed before.

[GusBob]

41. We speculate, that's what we do at this point

So his latest neighbors describe him as very unfriendly and secretive. earlier Floirda neighbors said he was very open and gave them key to his house

It is reported that he lived in 27 different residences. He was into rental properties so that might explain that

But all that moving around is one way to cover up criminal activity.

His companion knows his secrets.

[TheOther95Percent]

46. GSK and EAR Boards Are Talking About Him

The Golden State Killer and East Area Rapist boards have mentioned him as a possible suspect. My sister is retired LE in CA and she participates on those boards. Told me that Paddock's height doesn't fit with eyewitness accounts.