Las Vegas Shooter

• Several U.S. mass shooters exploited gaps, errors to obtain weapons in recent attacks

  In 2018, there were more than 26 million background checks conducted and fewer than 100,000 people failed. Of those, the vast majority were for a criminal conviction. Just over 6,000 were rejected for a mental health issue.

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  Sep 7, 2019
  
• Las Vegas police share lessons learned from 2017 concert massacre

  “We hope we never have to use these procedures that we are putting in place,” said Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.

  Crime

  Jul 11, 2019
  
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• Las Vegas police officer fired for inaction during deadly mass shooting

  The department declined to answer further questions, saying the firing was in arbitration.

  World

  Jul 3, 2019
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• 1 year after Las Vegas shooting: Remembering victims, survivors of the massacre

  Monday marks one year since the devastating and tragic shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas.

  World

  Sep 30, 2018
• Stephen Paddock ranted about gun control before Las Vegas massacre: police documents

  Police documents said a person they believed to be the gunman ranted in the days prior to last October’s Las Vegas Strip attack about the federal government and gun control.

  Crime

  May 16, 2018
• Autopsy offers no clues about Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock’s motives

  The report showed gunman Stephen Paddock had anti-anxiety drugs in his system but was not under the influence of them.

  Crime

  Feb 9, 2018
• Las Vegas shooting: Man charged with making armour-piercing bullets

  An Arizona man who sold ammunition to the gunman who carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history was charged Friday with manufacturing armour-piercing bullets, according to court documents.

  World

  Feb 2, 2018
• Las Vegas shooter researched SWAT tactics, possessed child pornography: police

  A preliminary report released by police offered new details, including a minute-by-minute account of the shooting at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas in Oct. 2017.

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  Jan 19, 2018
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• Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was emailing about bump stocks for months: documents

  Three months before the shooting, Paddock sent emails discussing buying bump stocks, which can make semiautomatic rifles fire hundreds of rounds a minute, media reports on unsealed search warrants showed.

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  Jan 13, 2018
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• Las Vegas shooter had ‘bouts of depression’ caused by financial woes: sheriff

  Stephen Paddock had been losing money and was "going in the wrong direction."

  Crime

  Nov 3, 2017