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I am a lowly hunter with an angle correcting range finder and I can light a target up at 400 yards all day with elevation changes.

OK, good, I thought so. I'm the same, and my only useful metric based on experience is deer hunting and outdoor ranges, and I'm no savant type shooter, and even I can regularly ping 12" steel out past 300 yards in the mountains/foothills, and that's with an average M4gery with an EOTech, usually standing up unsupported, and I've neck shot a few deer at that distance over the years. And I'd never in a million years call myself a sniper.

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Originally posted by MikeGLI:

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Its a duplicate receipt. Guy got a burger and a bagel to eat later.

Up top left, he's referring to the line that says Guests 2, you can see it on the left copy only.


But then wtf $28 for a burger, $10 for a bagel! $10 for a bottle of water no shit... $100 for lunch...

Been a while since you've been to Vegas? They've set the bar pretty high for shameful food pricing.

A huge portion of casino profits are from food and bev. Huge.

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Been a while since you've been to Vegas? They've set the bar pretty high for shameful food pricing.

Been there several times, still doesn't mean that $28 for a burger isn't absurd, you should see the prices in Vancouver for a burger, it's the same and you can't gamble LOL

I had the most expensive meal of my life at the MGM.

Just shy of $600 (at least that was the total bill divided by the people present)

My employer paid for it.

I think I ordered something in the $80 range. The majority of the bill was for booze and wine, of which I didn't partake.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
I had the most expensive meal of my life at the MGM.

Just shy of $600 (at least that was the total bill divided by the people present)

My employer paid for it.

I think I ordered something in the $80 range. The majority of the bill was for booze and wine, of which I didn't partake.

Was it just you? If so, what did you have, or perhaps, how much did you drink?

The waiter / order taker most likely denoted 2 Guests based on a guess, or the POS system assumed it for them based on the number of entrees, etc. We had that technology when I briefly waited tables in the very early 90s. That or his room reservation triggered the head count, but what's least likely is that it's real evidence there was a second person.

Maybe, I suppose, but I doubt it.

You ever ordered room service? I have, maybe 30 times in my life, and I don't recall them ever asking how many people. It usually was more like ordering tacos from Jose's shop in town. "Jello, Jes, this eeez Room Service, how may I help Joo?". "2 Burritos, 2 Jarritos..." "Si, senior, eeeet will be 1 hour...". More or less, whether white, Hispanic, or otherwise.

I bet there are $300-500 Kobe steaks on the menu. 80.00 was modest.

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Originally posted by 46and2:
The waiter / order taker most likely denoted 2 Guests based on a guess, or the POS system assumed it for them based on the number of entrees, etc. We had that technology when I briefly waited tables in the very early 90s. That or his room reservation triggered the head count, but what's least likely is that it's real evidence there was a second person.

Maybe, I suppose, but I doubt it.

You ever ordered room service? I have, maybe 30 times in my life, and I don't recall them ever asking how many people. It usually was more like ordering tacos from Jose's shop in town. "Jello, Jes, this eeez Room Service, how may I help Joo?". "2 Burritos, 2 Jarritos..." "Si, senior, eeeet will be 1 hour...". More or less, whether white, Hispanic, or otherwise.

Exactly, as I said. The guy was alone.

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Originally posted by Copefree:
NRA supports federal review of bump stocks

They are going to "throw a maiden into the volcano"
on this one. Ban bump stocks and F-off on everything else.

It's a mistake

All of my most expensive meals ever have been in Vegas, only on their money / only after winning at the Poker tables. Whenever that happens, I (and usually a date/girlfriend, or friends too) will go all out at whatever the hot spot or famous place du jour is, every night... if the funds are there. It borders on gluttony, no doubt, but I like good food, so I'll give back/spend a grand or two pigging out while there if I win a few+ thousand bucks. My luck is pretty good. I usually at least pay for the trip, and at least one big fancy meal.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
It's a mistake

This is true. Huge mistake. Pretty soon we'll see the media and the left circling like sharks. I expect better.

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Originally posted by FishOn:

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Originally posted by Copefree:
NRA supports federal review of bump stocks

They are going to "throw a maiden into the volcano"
on this one. Ban bump stocks and F-off on everything else.

By the way, Para nailed this early on. The guy was alone. He was a very smart but insane person. He was not politically motivated (he thought about doing this at other very different events) and was not targeting a conservative audience.

The guy acted alone. I do believe the girlfriend's story that he wired the money to buy her a house.

My only question concerns observations that he always gambled with a steady streams of booze. He had a Valium RX. I wonder if he was addicted to stimulants? Needed Valium to come down/sleep?

It will be interesting to see the toxicology report.

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Mystery woman seen with suspect before shooting

Officials briefed on the investigation told ABC News that investigators believe Paddock was seen with another woman, who was not his girlfriend, in the days before Sunday night's shooting.

Investigators are working to identify the woman and are interested in speaking with her to find out whether she has any insight, the officials said.

My guess is a Vegas call girl.

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Originally posted by Copefree:
NRA supports federal review of bump stocks

In my opinion, they are too willing to give in on some things. I suppose they see it as strategy, but I do not like it.

I’m assuming the NRA is going to have significant input on how this law will be written. Is it possible they are going to define (and protect) the final definition of what semi-automatic is?

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Originally posted by Copefree:
NRA supports federal review of bump stocks

Ugh.

This is very frustrating. It's security theatre - thinking it will change anything regarding public safety and/or thwart or impede such attacks as this in any meaningful way. Purely emotional "feel good" legislation, categorically amongst the most pointless endeavors ever entered into by human beings, a literal and irrefutable waste of finite resources, and a worm-can opening of a dangerous to our rights manner that seems not only emotional and pointless but also - and most importantly - devoid of having considered the consequences.

My dissatisfaction with the NRA is rarely disappointed.

Jerks/Idiots.

(unless of course I'm wrong and their strategy is sincerely of a proactive protection perspective, as suggested above. Well see. I'll happily be wrong about this.)

Or, I suppose, some (potentially)-ill-conceived strategy where they think they can sacrifice this maiden, gain publicity / image points, ban something stupid that no one much cares about the thing itself, and somehow protect the language, but even if true, and even if this goes fairly well, even if - say - it got us nationwide CCW and Suppressors with no tax stamp, the risk that some as yet unforeseen hitch in the language itself or the logic of it will fuck us down the road... There is no upside to adding a restriction any broader than a 1000 page dissertation and technical manual that explicitly only refers to those specific stupid bump stocks - which isn't even possible, in reality. It will screw us later, most likely.

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Originally posted by bcereuss:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
It's a mistake

This is true. Huge mistake. Pretty soon we'll see the media and the left circling like sharks. I expect better.

Agreed. In 2015, it was confederate flags they were protesting against and now it's American flags. If we cede ground on bump stocks, they'll keep pushing DiFi's dream. We need to be telling them "no."

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Originally posted by bcereuss:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
It's a mistake

This is true. Huge mistake. Pretty soon we'll see the media and the left circling like sharks. I expect better.