Man who sold armor-piercing ammo to Vegas shooter arrested

Douglas Haig takes questions from reporters at a news conference Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, in Chandler, Ariz.

(Image credit: Brian Skoloff/The Associated Press)

last updated 3 February 2018

An Arizona ammunition dealer named Douglas Haig was arrested Friday and charged in connection to a sale he made to Stephen Paddock, the shooter in the October attack in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and wounded about 500 more.

Haig is charged with selling armor-piercing bullets he did not have a license to manufacture. It is unknown whether Paddock actually used that ammunition, though two unfired armor-piercing bullets were found in the hotel room where he staged his attack.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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