Shooter had 1,650 bullets. Cops thought he had spent his bullets after initial flurry of shots

[Demovictory9]

at beginning. NOPE.

A solo American 18 year old male can outgun trained SWAT and Cops with his earnings from Wendys

jDont have link. radio special reported that he had 6 magazines with 1650 rounds

[BusterMove]

1. Cop guy said he had like 58 magazines...he dropped +/-30 in his backpack.

60 (a couple at his house) x 30 = 1800 rounds...of course not all may have been fully loaded.

[SYFROYH]

2. Seems like the reports have varied quite a bit on his huns and ammo

I think it might be a while before accurate info is public.

1600 rounds packed in mags is a bit of a heavy load. That might explain why some reports say he dropped his backpack.

[Cheezoholic]

3. Keeping score on the number of rounds

IS THE PROBLEM!!!

[doc03]

4. I had heard he had three 30 round magazines, maybe he had cartridges to reload the magazines.

Fifty-eight empty magazines would cost hundreds of dollars and if they were loaded would be
very heavy.

[rsdsharp]

5. I have seen stories that he purchased 375 rounds,

had with him 1000 rounds, 1600 rounds and now 1650 rounds. I have seen stories that he fired 100 rounds, hundreds of rounds, 350 rounds and 375 rounds. I have seen stories that he had 6 magazines, 7 magazines, 22 magazines, 30 magazines and 58 magazines.

Aside from the obvious numerical discrepancies, most of this doesn’t make a lot of sense. 1600 rounds would cost in excess of $1000 even if purchased in large lots. If you bought it in 20 round boxes, it would be 2-3 times that much. Unless he bought the absolute cheapest magazines they would be at least $15-20 each.

Six magazines and $1650 rounds also makes no sense. Even if all six were 100 round drums (which cost $200+ each), you still have more than 1000 rounds that would have to be loaded into magazines in order to be fired. Why lug that much virtually useless dead weight?

The information released by the authorities is all over the lot, and so is the reporting. I’d like someone to ask them to reconcile the numbers, and if these huge round and magazine counts are accurate, tell us how an 18 year-old who worked part-time at Burger King (assuming THAT is true) came up with $3000-4000 to buy 2 AR 15s, 1600+ rounds of ammunition and more than 50 magazines.

[MerryBlooms]

9. Grandma's credit card. My thought all along has been

He stole her credit card, she confronted him, he shot her in the f.n face.

[rsdsharp]

10. That makes more sense than most of what has been reported so far.

[PCIntern]

6. Upon what basis did they THINK they knew how much ammo

he had? What kind of utter BS is this?

[Takket]

8. on the basis of "i don't want to go in there, so... uh... he's out of bullets."

[doc03]

7. I think if I ran a gun shop and some fool kid came in on his 18 birthday and bought 2 assault

weapons,1600 rounds of ammo and 58x30 round magazines, I would be a little reluctant to
sell them and at least report it.

[Thomas Hurt]

11. but, but, but freedumb! and money of course.

[LiberatedUSA]

15. The next one will wait a few weeks or months after...

…their birthday to not be so obvious about it with a same day purchase.

Which begs the question, what is the time length to wait after turning 18 that the purchase is no longer suspicious? A few days, weeks or months?

[hamsterjill]

12. That still doesn't explain why they didn't go in.

They didn’t think there were wounded babies in there who might have been saved if they’d gotten out and gotten medical assistance?

Let them explain that.

[PJMcK]

13. We cannot trust the police to tell the truth

The cops did nothing even though they were trained for this situation.

They will not tell the truth because they want to cover up their ineptness and cowardice.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the police do not have an obligation to protect the citizenry. Then why do we have police forces? To pass out speeding and parking tickets?

In many communities, the cost of police forces is one of the largest expenses in their tax-funded budgets. If they aren't going to protect us, why do we pay them?

[BusterMove]

14. Per McGraw...58 mags at school, 60 total...

There were 142 spent rounds found inside the school, McCraw said, along with 173 live rounds. The gunman had a total of 60 magazines with him, he said, including 31 magazines that were in a backpack that he did not take with him inside the school.

Of the 315 rounds found inside the school, 142 were spent cartridges, or fired bullets, and 173 were live rounds, or unfired bullets, McCraw said. He also said 922 rounds were outside the school, but on school property, and of those, 22 were spent cartridges and 900 were live rounds.

Investigators found 60 magazines total – 58 in and around the school and at the site where the suspect crashed his car, and two at his residence.