Where We Can Stop the Bleeding
by Katie McDonough on Splinter, shared by Barry Petch from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#34AYR)

Buying a machine gun is legal in Nevada, but it is expensive. Retrofitting a semiautomatic rifle so that it will fire like a machine gun, on the other hand, is easy, and comparatively cheap. Stephen Paddock was reportedly wealthy enough to afford the former but chose the latter before killing 59 people and injuring"