i mean, from a law enforcement perspective we want to find out what the motive is. the motive is the key here. we know he meticulously planned this over what sounds like a full year. i mean, that s a lot of planning to go into this. not only to take care of the girlfriend, make sure she s away, transfer $100,000, but to purchase the weapons, purchase the mod fick augss on the weapons but also to pick that particular location which is far enough away to cause panic within that crowd and we know there s a lot of injuries of people just trying to get away. art rod-r thank you so much. on the investigation piece. we continue to hear these voices and share these stories of not only the victims but the survivors. and coming up next we ll talk to a man who bonded with a total stranger at the concert sunday night and saw her hit by gunfire. he stayed with her and stayed in constant contact with her family. their story is coming up next.
that s right, brooke. cnn was told a short time ago by a spokesperson for the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, atf, that stephen paddock bought 33 weapons, most of them rifles, between october 2016 and september 2017. that is according to an atf spokesperson who spoke to my colleague, kyung lah, a short time ago. so you re getting kind of more of a picture of his accumulation of weapons. we ve already been told by a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation that stephen paddock had been accumulating weapons over the course of at least 20 years. and again, more information about the weapons that were confiscated right after the shooting in three separate locations. the mandalay bay hotel room, his property in mesquite, nevada, and also a property that he owned near reno, nevada. law enforcement officials told us last night they confiscated 47 excuse me, 47 guns at those three locations. so you re getting this picture. his accumulation of the weapons.
sit down and take a look at this situation. let alone sleep or when they try to sleep. it s impossible. i want to ask you about this girmfriend who s being interrogated, or questioned i should say, right now. but quickly on the reporting from kyung lah and the fact that we know the shooter accrued 33 firearms, mostly rifles, between september of 16 and october of 17. for people who just don t know guns, i mean, when you re accruing again, he had no criminal history, apparently passed the background checks. is there not some alarm that goes off? do separate gun shops not talk? when someone starts accruing weapons in that number, is that okay? i mean, you would think there would be alarms going off. but no, because he spread his purchases around to several different gun shops. and it s not only the weapons that he accrues but also the modifications he made to those weapons, which means he had to go somewhere and practice or had to have knowledge about how to modify those weapons.
he s got white socks on, so i m going to go after him on that. i m looking for some way i can get leverage on her in the room in the event i don t have a hammer and i don t think she s cooperating. so we don t know a lot about her. we ve heard the sisters and they said one thing, that they think he sent her away to asia to be away when he committed this mass murder. we don t know. that s coming from the single source from the sister. we know she lived with him. we know that i don t know how long she lived with him but presumably she was there through the course of the year. according to kyung lah, reporter, catching up all the firearm information. he accrued 33 weapons over the course of september of last year to october of this year. so presumably if you re living with a man who keeps accruing weapons one would wonder are you asking questions? why are you buying all these guns? it s not just accruing weapons. think of all the dimensions. you can almost think of it as a
some of those weapons that i saw are set up for an expert or a sniper, they were set up based on those types of modifications and he had to have some knowledge or training in order to do that. do you think gun shop owners in this country are trained to hear what a virtually fully automatic weapon would sound like? and that would send off alarm bells at a range? it would. sometimes you can go to some ranges and they have automatic weapons set up there for you to try and use. so it s not unusual to find automatic weapons at the gun range. they usually have an experienced individual with you while you re firing that weapon. but no, that s not unusual. and the 12, you know, bump stocks that he bought, that s a lot. that is a lot. one more quick question. on the girlfriend, she s being questioned by the fbi. what are she s lawyered up. what are the key questions?