Las Vegas marks nine years since Route 91 massacre as survivors say October 1, 2017 has never ended

From the Newshound archive · first published 2 October 2026.

Families, survivors and Nevada leaders gathered in Las Vegas on Wednesday for sunrise ceremonies marking the ninth anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest Festival massacre, in which Stephen Paddock killed 60 people and wounded more than 800 in just 11 minutes. Senator Jacky Rosen devoted a Senate floor speech to honouring victims and renewing calls for a congressional bump-stock ban — the device Paddock used to unleash over 1,000 rounds on a crowd of 22,000. Survivors told journalists the 11 minutes of carnage replay in their minds almost daily, and that the night of October 1, 2017 feels, for them, as though it never came to a close.

MGM Resorts finalised an $800 million payout to survivors and affected families in 2020, one of the largest mass-shooting settlements in US history.

Bump stocks were banned by the Trump administration in 2018 but the Supreme Court overturned that ban in 2024, leaving Rosen's bipartisan bill as the last legislative hope.