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He had bump stocks, the official investigation never determined whether or not he used them or if any of the rifles were illegally modified to be actual machine guns.
The official investigation also never really turned up a motive, and if he was suicidal and wanted to take the maximum number of people with him, he had his own plane, so…
There's a lot of unanswered questions, even after the investigation was completed. A FOIA request showed that the ATF was prohibited from inspecting any of the guns to check for full auto modifications. It was a deliberate choice by investigators to not determine anything pertaining to the function of any given weapon.
That seems really insane, how did they not determine that? What the fuck did they even investigate then?
The simplest and most likely answer is that they didn't want to know. If they can say "he had bumpstocks" they had reason to ignore the fact that bumpstocks are 100% legal and ban them anyway without legislation. If they had found out that he genuinely modified them to be real machine guns, which are already banned by legislation, then they wouldn't have their justification for going outside the law. There might be another answer but this is the one that feels the least like a conspiracy theory. It took a FOIA request for them to even admit that they were prohibited from inspecting any of the weapons used.
It's pretty obvious he did but the extremely high rate of fire. You'd have to be nuts to think he brought them but decided his finger had had enough of a work out to be able to for rapidly for an extended period of time. It's not like he needed precision since he was firing into a giant crowd