Las Vegas Shooter's Guns: AR 15 High-Capacity Magazines Made By Former Colo. Firm Say Journalists

DENVER, CO -- Colorado gun lovers might have recognized a deadly ammunition magazine on the hotel floor in pictures of Stephen Paddock's weapons-strewn room in Las Vegas's Mandalay Bay Hotel. Followers of Colorado's 2013 gun legislation noted Wednesday that a super-sized "PMAG" made by former Louisville, Colo.-based firearm accessory manufacturer Magpul Industries was featured in photos released by the Las Vegas Police Dept.

The PMAG is a detachable plastic magazine. The Magpul PMAG AR 15 magazine photographed in Paddock's room, which costs around $16, allows 30 bullets to be fired without stopping to reload.

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Magpul got involved in pro-firearm Colorado politics in 2013, when the state legislature passed laws restricting some firearm sales. According to journalists at Coloradopols.com, the Magpul moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas and manufacturing to Wyoming, after Colorado put limits on the sizes of magazines sold in the state.

"[I]n 2013, then-Colorado based Magpul declared its intention to leave the state following the passage of gun safety legislation that, among other things, limited the capacity of magazines sold in the state to 15 rounds. The limitation on capacity of magazines sold retail in the state didn’t affect their manufacture, of course, but Magpul regarded any such limit as an unacceptable infringement on the Second Amendment rights of Coloradans.

It turns out, these Colorado-made devices also appeared in photographs taken by Newton, Connecticut police of weaponry recovered from the shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2013.

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Image: Las Vegas Police Dept.

This story has been updated.