Seems like the suspect is turning out to be a better fit with the crime

Yesterday, Paddock didn't seem all that plausible a shooter.

At Breitbart, the commenting readers mostly rejected the idea it was him, preferring to regard him as a fall guy and making conflicting claims about who really did it, pointing toward the political left.

His brother said he was not at all a gun fancier, for example.

But the brother doesn't seem credible on that point, given what the police found at the suspect's home.

Police said Paddock had at least 23 firearms in his hotel suite. 

He had been staying in the room since Sept. 28. 

They said another 19 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, explosives and electronics were found at his home at a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada, about 75 miles northeast of Las Vegas. 

Police also searched a two-bedroom home Paddock owned in a retirement community in Reno.  

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Two officials familiar with the investigation told the Associated Press that Stephen Paddock had two devices that could have allowed semi-automatic weapons to function as fully automatic ones, the news service reported Tuesday. 

The devices, known as "bump-stocks," use the recoil from firing the gun to continually "bump" against the trigger, firing off more rounds, according to the AP.

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U.S. officials tell CBS News there are no signs that Paddock had ties to radical Islamic groups or showed signs of being radicalized. 

And this is what bro said.

Eric Paddock said he is "horrified" and "dumbfounded" by his brother's actions. 

"No religious affiliation. No political affiliation. He just hung out," Eric Paddock said. 

"He had a couple of guns but they were all handguns, legal," he told reporters. 

"He might have had one long gun, but he had them in a safe."

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Eric Paddock said his brother was a multimillionaire who made much of his money investing in real estate. 

He said his brother was an accountant for many years and he wasn't aware of him having financial difficulties.

In an interview with the AP, Eric Paddock said his brother was "not a normal guy" and last had contact with him in September in a series of text messages. 

He said Stephen Paddock played "high stakes video poker" and once texted him a picture of him winning $40,000 on a slot machine. 

An elaborate frame is always possible to the inventive mind.

But without evidence it's just a conspiracy theory, however popular with the people commenting the story at Breitbart.

The crime is looking increasingly like a mass murder spree similar to so many adult school shootings, theater attacks, or the Texas Tower shootings.

And there is this.

Eric Paddock also confirmed to multiple outlets that his and Stephen's father was Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, a notorious bank robber who was on the FBI's most wanted list for eight years after escaping from prison in 1969. 

He once tried to run down a federal agent with his car and was serving a 20-year sentence for a string of robberies in Phoenix when he escaped. 

An FBI poster about the elder Paddock at the time called him "armed and very dangerous" and he remained on the bureau's list until 1977. 

He died in 1998.