Dealer arrested for making, selling Las Vegas shooter armor piercing ammo

By Daniel Terrill

Douglas Haig held a news conference after being charged with selling armor piercing bullets to Stephen Paddock, the gunman behind the Las Vegas massacre. (Photo: Brian Skoloff/AP)
Federal authorities charged an Arizona man Friday for manufacturing and selling armor piercing ammunition to the gunman responsible for October’s massacre on the Las Vegas strip.
Douglas Haig, 55, of Mesa, Arizona, was named in a criminal complaint filed in a Las Vegas federal court just days after Las Vegas authorities unsealed hundreds of pages of search warrants involving the incident. Among the details, Haig was identified as a person of interest.
According to the criminal complaint, federal agents interviewed Haig the day after the shooting about his connection to gunman Stephen Paddock. Investigators had found an Amazon shipping box with Haig’s address on the label in Paddock’s hotel room at Mandalay Bay, the location where he had opened fire into a music festival. Haig admitted to selling Paddock ammunition after agents revealed details connecting him to Paddock.
Haig operated an Internet ammo business that advertised selling tracer and incendiary ammunition. The complaint states that tracer rounds are chemically treated so the bullet emits a glow after exiting the muzzle of a weapon, typically a machine gun.

Source: Guns.com