such modifications harness the recoil to allow for rapid fire .
audio recordings of the shooting suggest that at least one of mr. paddock ’s weapons fired automatically , discharging multiple bullets with a single depression of a trigger , in what are commonly called bursts .
mr. paddock possessed such weapons , or used semiautomatic weapons that had been altered .
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as details steadily come in about the las vegas shooting that has left 59 dead and 527 injured , so have videos and images showing the terror concertgoers faced as alleged shooter stephen paddock began spraying bullets at the crowd from a mandalay bay hotel room .
btw warning : this post has been updated to reflect the latest death toll in the las vegas shooting .
this suggests the possibility that a weapon could have been modified to fire more quickly , a change to semiautomatic firearms known as bump or slide fire .
while many are pointing out the absurdity of the man ’s hyper - macho response — an extreme version of “ come at me , bro ” as bullets are heard flying — most of us have never been victim to a mass shooting , so who are we to know what our instincts give way to when we are suddenly confronted with the 273rd mass shooting this year , a number that ’s absurd in itself .
around the 1:10 mark , amid a screaming crowd — some running for their lives , others lying on the ground in fear — a man remains standing , his arms wide open , yelling , “ come on , pussy ” at the shooter .