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So fun fact

The reason why it was the deadliest shooting is because the shitstain was using a bump stock, which makes semiautomatics into pseudo-automatics

After it happened, the Trump admin of all fucking people banned them. Broken clock or something.

Now SCOTUS is about to hear a court case to repeal the ban, and they look poised to legalize bump stocks again under the BS reason that “they’re not technically automatic weapons”

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PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not trying to minimize the bump stock thing but I would wager that having 23 different guns and hundreds of rounds of ammo is why so many people got shot that night. This guy had it all planned out including bipods, red dots, cameras etc. this guy even went as far as to nailing his door shut so in any case someone got to his hotel before he was done, he would have extra time.

Yeah the bump stocks made a difference but I don’t think it was by that much.

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- Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  For those of us who don’t wank ourselves to sleep every night to pictures of guns and have no idea what the fuck a bump stock is -
  
  Essentially, bump stocks assist rapid fire by “bumping” the trigger against one’s finger (as opposed to one’s finger pulling on the trigger), thus allowing the firearm’s recoil, plus constant forward pressure by the non-shooting arm, to actuate the trigger
  
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  - Syn_Attck@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    For those of us who don’t wank ourselves to sleep every night to pictures of guns and have no idea what the fuck a bump stock is
    
    Interesting observation, I’d have thought anyone old enough at the time to follow news of the largest mass shooting in history would have known, especially since bump stocks became one of the largest causes of gun debate at the time, before Glock switches. Since you don’t ~~watch news about gun violence~~ wank yourself to sleep watching gun videos every night, here’s what that is:
    
    A Glock switch or Glock auto-sear (sometimes called a button or a giggle switch) is a small device that can be attached to the rear of the slide of a Glock handgun, converting the semi-automatic pistol into a machine pistol capable of fully automatic fire.
    
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    Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    largest discussion point
    
    Ha ha you seem to misunderstand that most other countrys’ entire discussion of the matter was “Fucksake the backwards yanks are at it again, must be a day with a ‘Y’ in it” 🙄
    
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- Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah that’s fair, the guy was armed to the teeth. The bump stock is just the icing on the shit cake.
  
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- CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can someone who’s more into gun stuff tell me why people are always talking about the amount of guns someone has?
  
  What makes 23 different guns better than one good one? I can see the point of having like two, in case the first jams, but based on my (limited) experience I would much rather have a single HK416 than a dozen of anything else.
  
  Also with fewer guns you need fewer ammo types (unless you for some reason have 23 guns with the same ammo, which to me makes even less sense).
  
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  - aidan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Can someone who’s more into gun stuff tell me why people are always talking about the number of guns someone has?
    
    Can be one of several things, or usually a combination:
    
    to show how prepared they were
    
    to imply the person was crazy because they had that many guns
    
    to imply people having that many guns somehow itself makes them more dangerous
    
    A lot of it is just rhetoric
    
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  - phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    He brought all those guns to the hotel room he shot from. I imagine it was so he could shoot as many rounds at the crowd with out the need to reload.
    
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    skyspydude1@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    But that really makes no sense. Unless you have them all set up in a row pointed exactly where you want, you’re probably not even saving half a second vs reloading. The old “switching is faster than reloading” thing doesn’t apply nearly as much when you’re at a static position and can have all your mags out in the open at arm’s reach.
    
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  - skyspydude1@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Because it grabs attention and sounds scary, which really what media outlets care about. My other favorite is when they talk about someone having being caught with “hundreds of rounds of ammunition”, which clearly indicates that’s how many people they were planning on murdering, and isn’t just a pretty typical range day, or in the case of reallly common stuff like 9mm, 22LR, or even 223, can literally be a single box of ammo.
    
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- orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  One life is that much, though.
  
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poprocks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A SCOTUS that Trump installed.

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DABDA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No hardware required, also not some new technique suddenly discovered:
How to Bump Fire an AR-15/M4
AK47 bump fire

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aidan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The reason why it was the deadliest shooting is because the shitstain was using a bump stock

No, he was looking over a massive crowd of people with a rifle. He may have killed more people without a bump stock, given the difficulty it causes for accuracy. Saying it is a settled fact that it led to the deaths is just not true.

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