Las Vegas Hotels To Screen Luggage?

Above, the Las Vegas Strip. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

In the aftermath of the Mandalay Bay massacre last Sunday, the question arose on what can Las Vegas hotels can do to beef up security.

One of the things being looked at is to screen the luggage hotel guests bring in.

According to Condé Nast Traveler:

As a city that hosts large-scale events on a daily basis—concerts, big-budget theater, conventions—not to mention routinely gets nearly four million visitors each month, Las Vegas is always on high alert for a terrorist attack or catastrophic event.

Yet the violent mass shooting on Sunday—the deadliest in United States history, which left 59 festival-goers dead and nearly 600 injured—was triggered in an area of Las Vegas that’s largely unpatrolled: the hotel room. 

According to Las Vegas authorities, gunman Stephen Paddock brought 23 guns, including some rifles into his hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. He also brought hundreds of rounds of ammunition, as well as a hammer to, presumably, smash the windows of the room. He wired cameras inside and outside his room to detect movement from police officers. And he did all of this first by hauling ten suitcases up to his suite.

Luggage screening and other security measures could have a chilling effect and dissuade visitors from coming to Las Vegas, according to the article.

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