Breivik managed to obtain his guns legally in Norway despite fairly tough gun control. It took him a while to do it. He said his semi-automatic .223 would be

Breivik managed to obtain his guns legally in Norway despite fairly tough gun control. It took him a while to do it. He said his semi-automatic .223 would be used for deer hunting. It would make sense to ban semi-automatic rifles since bolt action rifles should be good enough for hunting. Paddock had ten times as many guns, many of which were modified with bump stocks to make them practically fully automatic. It would be much more difficult to achieve this starting with a bolt action rifle.