The Mandalay Bay hotel – which was used by the Las Vegas shooter as the base for his sniper’s nest – has now installed security guards at its elevators.
Stephen Paddock managed to sneak 23 guns – many semi-automatic rifles – and thousands of rounds of ammunition into his hotel room before opening fire on a country music festival on October 1, killing 58 people.
Now two permanent security guards are based at the entrance to the elevators, The Las Vegas Review-Journal has reported.
The Mandalay Bay hotel is permanently installing security guards at its elevators in order to stop a repeat of the sniper attack based in two of its rooms (pictured) on October 1
Stephen Paddock smuggled 23 guns, many semi-auto rifles with bump stocks to allow full-auto rates of fire, into his room over days leading up to his deranged attack
Anyone now wanting to use the elevators must show the guards their room keys before they are allowed to enter, staff who did not want to be named told the site.
They said the hotel had previously only guarded the elevators during major events, but that the new security placements were permanent.
The new policy also applies to the Delano hotel, which is also run by MGM Resorts International and is part of the same complex on The Strip.
Paddock not only killed almost 60 people when he fired down from two connected 32nd-floor rooms in the Mandalay Bay, but also injured 546 people.
He was found dead in his room by police, along with almost two dozen guns, many of which were semi-auto rifles fitted with bump-stock modifications that allow for automatic-level rates of fire.
On Wednesday, a South Carolina Mayor declared that he would introduce a city ordnance banning bump-stocks and the similarly dangerous trigger cranks.
Trigger cranks repeatedly depress the trigger as the shooter turns a crank modification, again allowing for rates of fire of up to 800 rounds a second.
Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia, a Democrat, said: ‘I believe in responsible gun ownership, and I believe in common sense,’ ABC News reported.
‘That’s why I’ve decided to do what our federal and statement governments are either unable or unwilling to do.’
It’s unclear when the ordinance will go into place.
Bump stocks, also called replacement stocks, work by allowing AR or AK rifles to fire at up to 800 rounds per minute by pulling the trigger repeatedly each time the gun recoils