Man who sold ammo to Vegas shooter charged

[TexasTowelie]

CHANDLER, Ariz. — An Arizona man who sold ammunition to the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history was charged Friday with manufacturing armor-piercing bullets, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Unfired armor-piercing bullets found inside the Las Vegas hotel room where the attack was launched on Oct. 1 contained the fingerprints of ammunition dealer Douglas Haig of Arizona, according to the complaint filed in federal court in Phoenix. It says Haig didn't have a license to manufacture armor-piercing ammunition.

The records don't say if the ammunition was used in the attack. Haig was charged shortly before holding a news conference Friday where he said didn't notice anything suspicious when he sold 720 rounds of ammunition to Stephen Paddock in the weeks before the attack that killed 58 people.

Haig, a 55-year-old aerospace engineer who sold ammunition as a hobby for about 25 years, said he met Paddock at a Phoenix gun show in the weeks before the shooting and he was well-dressed and polite.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Seeing this I wonder how hard it would be for some maniac to buy RPGs and shit like that

from a "hobbyist".

[marble falls]

2. Those rounds were for hunting uparmored wildlife.......

What do people have against sportsmen hunters?

[TexasTowelie]

3. I knew that the wildlife in your area was tough,

but I haven't been out there in awhile to check things out. I just hope they don't get as far east as the I-35 corridor though. I still have plans for Austin and Georgetown someday.

[marble falls]

4. Jackalopes used to be pretty bad in that neck of the woods....

but we got them under control now:

[TexasTowelie]

5. I see that you're sitting high in the saddle and hope that is a padded seat

since I know that you had the recent surgery. I thought your doctor said no riding for at least eight weeks?

[marble falls]

6. That was taken in my rabbit busting days, Epsom salt baths helped.

[Snackshack]

7. He was well dressed and polite...

Ok...the fact that the guy was asking for armor piercing bullets didn’t raise any red flags?!?

I wonder what one could get if they wore an Armani to a show...