The Threat is Real, very real.

[StoneHendge]

I maintained a Class 10 Firearms license and manufactured legally M42, SBRs, M16s and M2s. We played with bump fire stocks when they first came out and determined rather quickly that they really did not serve a useful purpose other than burning up mass quantities of ammunition quickly. If you are not WELL trained in the use of a fully automatic weapon, then you will use the spray and pray method, which was used in Las Vegas. When you have 22,000 packed together, then as long as you can keep the rounds in the couple of acre area, then it can be effective. It would not suprise me for them to find out that the rounds which hit the fuel tanks will have some rounds in front of them between the target area and the fuel tank, ala muzzle rise.

My favorite M4 was a 10.5 inch SBR, and it would empty a 30 round magazine in about 2.6 seconds, and a 60 round magazine in about 5. Again if one is not WELL trained in most cases after the third round one is shooting at tree tops and buzzards.

The scenario used in Las Vegas was optimal for the weapon system he had.

On another note, I have heard that the assailant was a pilot and owned two aircraft of which one is a business jet/turboprop. If he wanted to maximize the carnage, he could have fueled the aircraft, taken off and declared an emergency. They would have given him the choice of runways. and on final he could have turned into the crowd which would have killed/injured significantly more.

Give Alex Jones a call first thing in the morning!