Las Vegas Mass Shooting

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As someone who has fired belt-fed and magazine-fed automatic weapons, I can confidently say that belt-fed weapons weren't used in Las Vegas.  The bump-stock modification produces a rate of fire that's right up there with fully automatic weapons and that is more than capable of inflicting the carnage in Las Vegas.

Why would you bother going through the onerous process required to acquire fully automatic weapons when a cheap, legal modification gives you close to the same rate of fire?

Thanks DJC. The reason that a belt-fed weapon theory was propagated was not regarding rate of fire but the duration of some of the bursts of fire, which the article claimed were too long in respect of the magazine capacity of a modified rifle. From memory, and I'd have to go back and check, the author claimed to be an ex US marine?