ATF conducting urgent traces on Las Vegas shooter’s 42 recovered guns

By Brian Seay

Police say 64-year-old Stephen Paddock fired out of two windows from his 32nd floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Sunday night. (Photo: David Becker/Getty Images)
The ATF is conducting urgent traces on 42 guns linked to the retired accountant police say is responsible for Sunday night’s massacre in Las Vegas.
At a press conference Monday evening, Assistant Clark County Sheriff Todd Fasulo said 64-year-old Stephen Paddock had 23 guns in the Mandalay Bay hotel room where he opened fire. At his home in Mesquite, Nevada, officers found another 19 firearms, as well as explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
As many as 16 of the guns were rifles, according to Clark County Sherif Joe Lombardo, in calibers ranging from .223 to .308. Lombardo said some of the rifles in Paddock’s two-room suite were equipped with scopes and had been modified to shoot full-auto.
“I don’t know if the sear pins have been filed down or whether they’ve been converted to fully automatic,” he said, adding that the ATF is trying to figure out how the rifles were modified.
While the ATF works on tracing the weapons, representatives from at least two gun stores say Paddock purchased weapons legally

Source: Guns.com