[devinegan]

“ Authorities have said he brought 23 weapons in 10 suitcases into the room and set up cameras inside and out to watch for police closing in on him.”

If they are looking through everyone’s rooms I would hope they find this now as he took days to get all of the guns and ammo up to his suite. I am not law enforcement and can’t say for sure though. The US has done a lot worse in the name of terrorism (I believe this was a terrorist act).

[akira2501]

He did this in broad daylight. The guns were disguised in cases. He used the service elevator with staff help. In one case the staff helped move his guns on a rack.

If he leaves the guns in the cases it just looks like he has a lot of luggage. He had a huge suite. If it didn't look odd to them in the first place I can't imagine how it would in retrospect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uci5Ar2HFr0

[devinegan]

I believe that is why the policy we are discussing changed.

[kelnos]

Why did he need 23 weapons? Seems like someone could have done just as much damage with one weapon and a bunch of ammo. I feel like it would be pretty trivial to bring a couple luggage cases in with that, plus some cameras, without hotel staff being suspicious, especially if you didn't bring any "normal" luggage with clothes or toiletries or the usual stuff people bring, to keep the total number of luggage pieces down.

Hotel staff certainly wouldn't find that with room inspections; they'd just see three or four pieces of luggage, which shouldn't raise any eyebrows. Then when the shooter decides to get started, they take everything out of the cases and set things up.

Like... this isn't rocket science. The only kind of room inspection that would actually stop these kinds of attacks would be if they do room searches, including opening and going through people's luggage. But I hope we can all agree that would be a huge invasion of privacy that no one should accept.

Of, course the actual way to stop -- or at least drastically reduce -- these sorts of attacks would be much stronger gun, ammo, and accessory controls. But of course the mouth-breathing 2A crowd (including most of SCOTUS) think guns are more important than people's lives.

[devinegan]

Guns overheat when a large volume of ammunition is discharged in a short amount of time. *edit for grammar