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Sarcasm alert - He probably got it through the old gun show loop hole!

His father taught him to live off the grid. Most of his finances were/are difficult to trace. M240's pop up quite a bit in Mexico, he could have gotten it there. However, all of that assumed that Paddock used an M240 and I do not subscribe to that line of reasoning. When an M240 is audible, it sounds more distant than the .556 fire. Likely a different shooter from a different position

If a person is committed and predisposed to committing an act of violence on such a mass scale, the only thing that will stop them is someone prepared, trained, and capable of defending life. It’s time to tell the liberals that we are tired of being held to the mercy of the criminals and the mentally ill, while we wait for standard emergency response times.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke