Exclusive: YouTube videos that taught Buffalo mass shooting suspect to modify his gun are still online
“The policies are there, but they’re not enforcing them,” said Justin Wagner, Everytown’s director of investigations. “They’re swimming with videos that show how to modify a gun to make it fire faster and do more damage. These aren’t hard to find — anyone can put terms into the search bar and find them.”The primary suspect in the shooting, Payton S.
Law enforcement officials have confirmed that the suspect maintained and used accounts on Twitch, Discord and Steam. Eight days later, on Jan. 19, the user wrote in the chat logs about buying a Bushmaster XM-15. One image that accompanies the post shows the rifle, complete with a red magazine lock, sitting next to a drill and the same bits mentioned in the YouTube video.
One of the suspect’s final Discord posts before the attack shows what appear to be three high-capacity magazines in the pocket of his driver-side door.
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