One possible reason the Vegas gunman may have stopped after eleven minutes.

[Baitball Blogger]

They keep attributing the cease fire to the security guard that was shot through the door. But, is it possible that the bump stock and all that massive recoil pounding into Paddock's shoulder may have caused injury?

[Angry Dragon]

1. maybe

[PoliticAverse]

2. I did see one report that his hands were burned due to heat from the guns' barrels. n/t

[Girard442]

3. Yeah, look for add-on water cooling jackets to pop up in the upcoming gun shows.

I wish I was joking.

[atreides1]

9. It's possible

But it's been reported that he had 12 rifles fitted with bump stocks, if each had a 30 round magazine, that comes out to 360 rounds! So, why would he touch the barrel of the rifle?

It was also reported that he was wearing gloves.

[hack89]

4. 5.56mm doesn't generate much recoil

so I would doubt it.

[jmg257]

5. 1) he had gloves on so forget burns

2) he fired 200 rounds AT security.
Think he just decided he was done.

[underpants]

6. CNN - Sheriff says he may have planned to escape

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/10/05/us/las-vegas-shooting-investigation/index.html

My hunch that I posted a few days ago was, given the complete lack of usual motives, that he thought he was so smart he could get out do what anyone else has done. The possible escape plan, I think, backs this up. He wanted to show how smart he was.

[exboyfil]

11. That goes along with wiring the money to

the Philippines. I don't think he expected to be confronted so quickly. It threw him off.

Also he thankfully wasted some of his time firing at the fuel tanks.

[underpants]

13. Yes it could. Expected chaos and he could slide through the crowd

I didn't know about firing at fuel tanks. ???

[exboyfil]

15. I heard that is the reason for breaking the second window

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/the-strip/las-vegas-strip-shooter-targeted-aviation-fuel-tanks-source-says/

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

14. I could be wrong but

The tannerite in his car is common in use of exploding targets, is it possible be planned to plant some at the fuel tanks? At the end he takes a chance his scraffing the tanks might induce explosions with bullets?

[mainstreetonce]

7. Is it possible that after eleven minutes the majority of the crowd running away were getting ....

out of his range?
Or if he stopped because of tired hands, the crowd was out of range before he could start again?

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Sounds very likely.

Thanks for posting.

[Calculating]

8. Nah

IMO he had just 'had his fill' so to speak and decided to end it. Maybe the less crazy voice within his mind took over for a moment and he was like "oh god, what am I doing".

[kwassa]

10. I think after 11 minutes that most of his potential new targets were gone.

The ones that weren't shot had made it out of the field and escaped from his fire.

[Ellipsis]

16. My understanding is the smoke from the guns set off the fire alarm in his room...

...so they knew where he was.

[madokie]

17. I doubt that

Not a gunner.
The kind of weapons he was shooting doesn't have that much recoil, best I remember back when I was a soldier. Shotguns will kick the living shit out of you but he wasn't firing shotguns. 308 has somewhat of a kick but if you're used to shooting one your shoulder is used to it. 223 not much recoil at all.

I say more than likely he figured he was caught and took the cowards way out by shooting himself. cowards like him don't want to face the music if you get my drift

[Thor_MN]

18. IMO, but still just a SWAG, the smoke and powder residue was more likely than recoil.

He was probably shooting from inside the room, rather than hanging the barrel out the window. Air quality inside the room was likely pretty low after all those shots.

Purely speculative, of course.

[Luz]

19. Maybe he simply got tired of doing it, got it out of his system.