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Mclean, who's following the investigation. the shooter also had 50 pounds of explosives in his car. what do police believe his intentions were? >> yeah, that is not exactly clear at this point, fredricka, it's one of the questions that continues to puzzle investigators. the suspect had some 1,600 rounds of ammunition in his vehicle, along with that 50 pounds of that explosive compound called tanarite. it is fully legal in the united states, it's commonly used by target shooters to create exploding targets. we also know that paddock tried to purchase ammunition called tracer bullets, which esse...

Police. cnn learned by a law enforcement official that paddock tried to buy tracer ammunition at a gun show in phoenix in recent weeks. for so reason, paddock could not obtain the bullets. >> if he got tracer ammunition, who would be different? >> the first thing tracer ammunition does for a shooter is allows them to get on to target and low light conditions much more quickly than they might otherwise. in his particular case, he would have been able to see pretty much where the strike of his bullets were landing within the crowd. >> reporter: former s.w.a.t. team member chris petko says the tr...

Or that material in his vehicle had intended to be used as an ied within that vehicle. the answer to your question is i don't know what he was going to do with it. it's one of the mysteries of this actual attack. it's one thing that my investigators as well as the fbi continue to try to figure out, and that's one of the main focuses of our investigation today. >> reporter: we're also learning this suspect tried to buy tracer ammunition or bullets at a gun show in phoenix prior to this attack but he wasn't able to because they simply didn't have it in stock. tracer bullets create or have a pyro...

Suspect in this case tried to buy a type of ammunition at a phoenix gun show prior to the shooting called tracer bullets, essentially they're coated with a pyre tech nick charge that would have allowed the the suspect to see where his bullets were landing. the drawback of that is potentially police could have also seen where those bullets were landing and potentially located paddock much earlier. we are told by experts that you probably wouldn't use every bullet as a tracer bullet but perhaps every fifth bullet might have done it. he wasn't able to buy that ammunition just because they didn't ...

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