Man Charged Over Armor-Piercing Bullet Sale to Las Vegas Gunman

Man Charged Over Armor-Piercing Bullet Sale to Las Vegas Gunman
A broken fence is pictured leading from the parking lot near the site of the Route 91 music festival mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 5, 2017. Reuters/Chris Wattie
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An ammunition dealer who has acknowledged selling hundreds of rounds of tracer bullets to a gunman responsible for killing 58 people in Las Vegas was charged on Friday with conspiracy to make and sell armor-piercing ammunition without a license.

Douglas Haig, 55, of the Phoenix suburb of Mesa, Arizona, became the first person arrested and charged in connection with the Oct. 1 massacre, which ended when the perpetrator, Stephen Paddock, killed himself.