However, once a week for nearly a year?! With AR15 ammo being about .50 cents per round… E.G. 100 rounds is a reasonable amount to fire per session and costs $50. 43 sessions would run him over $2100 as a reasonable basic ammo training cost. Could easily be 5-10x that if he were really hard core on training. The guy worked at some basic job, I think in a nursing home or something. Who was paying for his ammo? Dad? Perhaps he was tapping into dad’s ammo stash? Perhaps something more sinister.
Dude kids will spent $2000 on a gaming PC, $100 on a mouse, $100 on a keyboard, $250 for a headset, $70 for a video game, etc.
And I’m supposed to believe a person hell-bent on assassinating someone will be hindered by this?
Is a pile of debt a big deterrent for someone looking to go out in a blaze of glory?
What do you think he needs to “fund” that hobby and practice from August to July? Maybe $5000 at the absolute maximum? You don’t think he could get approved for a credit card and max it out?
What level of debt do you think is a deterrent for someone looking to do something this awful? Do you think if he was $10k in debt that he would’ve gone “fuck man what am I doing? I can’t leave all this debt behind”
It’s an odd level of compelling and costly dedication.
Sure, but he lived with his parents. It’s really not that expensive. If people are passionate about something, they’ll find a way.
Having said that I have a friend who has a passion for shooting and has shot hundreds of thousands of rounds and he shoots probably almost weekly. But he also has a lot of guns, a large income, and has been doing so for decades.
If you want to be convinced that debt will stop someone looking to die, then that’s on you. Also I’m not sure if you’re aware, but there are ammo sales all the time on the internet. He could’ve easily bought a bulk amount of 223 ammo, like 500 rounds for $200-300. He used his dad’s cheap 10 year old AR-15. This money thing isn’t really convincing me of anything other than this guy might have gone into debt over it.
So true, shooting a lot is not itself a sign of anything really. Even with Feds training there. Not uncommon. But having a Trump rally in your home town, remarkable abilities to exploit huge glaring security vulnerabilities (that would not be known to the public), bombs at home and in the van, drones, range finder… And being killed trying to assassinate Trump. That overall picture looks pretty bad… Like, yes, he had some foreknowledge, expert help (bombs? A van registered in Arizona? Etc.), aware of an able to exploit the rooftop security lapse while also going unmolested for hours on the grounds and 10-20 minutes on the roof?
Cool, I’d still like to just know more than to have the information of “omg they went to the same shooting range!!!”. Yeah I get it, as I’ve explained, if a place has very few shooting ranges, that will happen. If there is a really good range in that city/town, people will drive out of their way to go there. I’d just like to see something, CCTV footage, eyewitness, something other than “they went to shoot at the same range”. Right now that doesn’t prove anything to me at all.