4.1 Misinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories.Justice Department in December 2018, but the ban was reversed by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on March 25, 2021. It focused attention on firearms laws in the U.S., particularly with regard to bump stocks, which Paddock used to fire shots in rapid succession, at a rate similar to that of automatic firearms.
The incident is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in United States history. About an hour later, Paddock was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. From his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay Hotel he fired more than 1,000 bullets, killing 60 people and wounding 411, with the ensuing panic bringing the number of injured to 867. On the evening of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire upon the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. 61 (including the perpetrator and two victims who died in 20)
