The Conspiracy Theories surrounding Stephen Paddock’s
connection to the Mandalay Bay/La Vegas massacre are legion. One Conspiracy
Theory about being an arms dealer had been relegated to the realm of bizarre.
BUT, some released FBI data has refueled the arms dealer theory.
JRH 1/16/18
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Las Vegas Shooter Conspiracies CONFIRMED By FBI Release?!
By Andrew
West
January 15, 2018
From the moment that the
news broke on that fateful October night, the Las Vegas shooting incident has
been spawning a never-ending nest of new questions.
According to police, shooter
Stephen Paddock was a retired, multimillionaire real estate investor and avid
gambler. His high roller status had Paddock on a first name basis in many
of Sin City’s more luxurious locales, including the Mandalay Bay, where the
soon-to-be murderer was set up in a lavish 32nd floor suite overlooking the Las
Vegas Strip and a country music festival taking place across the street.
Then, again according to the
partial narrative released by authorities, Paddock turned this glamorous hotel
room into an elaborate sniper’s nest from which he would unleash countless
rounds into the country music fans below. When it was all said and done,
58 concert goers had lost their lives, Paddock was dead, and police were
stumped. Paddock left behind no note, no manifesto, and no clue as to
what his motivation in the killing may have been.
The investigation that
followed was largely off the radar, as police and federal agents shielded their
work from the public eye.
Given the enormous brutality
of the attack itself, and the silent treatment that the police were giving the
media, the internet soon got to work constructing a number of bizarre
conspiracy theories around the incident. The most prevalent of these
theories revolved around Paddock being an illegal arms dealer who was summoned
to the luxury suite to await a high level deal for the cache of weapons he had
with him. In this story, we are led to believe that the “buyers” Paddock
was dealing with were actually terrorists of some fashion, who then killed
Paddock, unleashed Hell on Las Vegas, and magically escaped.
While this far fetched
nonsense has laid dormant in the darker corner of the internet for weeks, a
strange revelation in a newly released FBI document seems to indicated that
Paddock may in fact have been an illegal arms dealer.
“One
affidavit includes email exchanges between centralpark1@live.com, a Microsoft
account that FBI authorities believe belonged to Paddock, and
centralpark4804@gmail.com. (It is unclear if the FBI knows who is responsible
for the latter account.) The messages were sent on July 6, 2017.
“The
affidavit reads:
“‘…[centralpark1@live.com]
sent an email to centralpark4804@gmail.com which read, “try an ar before u buy.
we have huge selection. located in the las vegas area,” Later the day, an email
was received back from centralpark4804@gmail.com to [centralpark1@live.com]
that read, “we have a wide variety of optics and ammunition to try.” And
lastly, [centralpark1@live.com sent an email to centralpark4804@gmail.com that
read, “for a thrill try out bumpfire ar’s with a 100 round magazine.”
Investigators believe these communications may have been related to the
eventual attack that occurred at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.’
“The
exchanges took place nearly three months before the onslaught. And CNN reports
that ‘investigators at the time of the filing had been unable to determine if
Paddock was sending emails between two accounts both belonging to himself, or
was communicating with someone else.'”
The odd email addresses with
“centralpark” included could be a clever ruse that Paddock was employing, or
underground codes of the illegal arms trade.
The remaining bits of the
story concocted by internet sleuths has yet to be corroborated in the
slightest, leading many to believe that their guess regarding Paddock’s
arms-dealing side job was just a lucky stab out of thin air. Until we
hear the final word from the FBI, however, few will be satisfied with the
answers provided.
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Andrew West is a Georgia-based
political enthusiast and lover of liberty. When not writing, you can find Mr.
West home brewing his own craft beer, perfecting his home-made hot sauce
recipes, or playing guitar.
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