1,400 rounds of ammo, three Samurai swords and photos of dead people: Warrants reveal the chilling haul found in Adam Lanza's home - and how he shot 155 bullets in less than five minutes

A Connecticut judge granted a request this morning to release five previously sealed search warrants for Lanza's home, which he shared with his mother, Nancy Lanza

Documents reveal that investigators found terrifying cache of guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition at Connecticut home

Three Samurai swords were recovered along with a a National Rifle Association certificate and a NRA guide to the basics of pistol shooting



Lanza killed 26 people, including 20 first-graders, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in December

Used an assault rifle to kill all his victims at the school - before taking his own life with a handgun



Contraband: Documents have revealed that Newtown gunman Adam Lanza had a terrifying arsenal of weapons at his mother's house

The police dossier compiled in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre reveal shooter Adam Lanza had amassed an astonishing arsenal of guns, with thousands of rounds of ammunition, samurai swords, spears and three photographs of what appear to be a dead person covered in blood.

Search warrant affidavits relating to the Newtown school shootings were unsealed by a judge in Danbury at 9.01 a.m. this morning - providing a chilling picture of the 20-year-old mass murderer in the days before he killed 26 people, including 20 children at the Connecticut school on December 14th.

The released documents outline how he unleashed 155 bullets at the innocent children during a five-minute rampage and that he was an avid reader of an NRA guide to shooting and three other self-help books, 'Look at Me: My Life With Asperger's' and 'Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant' and 'Train Your Brain to Get Happy'.

The inventory of the evidence seized from Lanza's home and the car he drove to carry out the massacre provided glimpses into the world of a troubled young man, but it does not answer the question of what could have motivated the attack.



Investigators say it will take until June or later to complete the investigation. Prosecutors until now had made few details available, despite pressure to do so from the Connecticut governor, who criticized leaks to the press and lawmakers who clamored for more details as they craft legislation on mental health and gun control.

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Police warrants indicate that unspecified medical records were found at the house that Adam Lanza had shared with his mother Nancy

Indeed, up until now, the only portrait was of an identikit loner, who locked himself away in his room, obsessively playing video games and collecting powerful handguns and assault rifles.

Carnage at Sandy Hook Elementary School

Chief prosecutor Stephen Sedensky confirmed that Lanza killed all 26 victims inside Sandy Hook Elementary School with a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle before taking his own life with a Glock 10 mm handgun.



He revealed Lanza had another loaded handgun with him inside the school as well as three, 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster.

When his body was discovered, Lanza's Bushmaster was loaded with 30-round magazine of which 14 bullets still remained in place with one round in the chamber.



Upon entering the school, the police documents state that law officials discovered, 'numerous school children and school personnel located deceased from apparent gunshot wounds in the first three classrooms off the main hallway, adjacent to the school's front entrance'.



Adam Lanza's body was found dressed in military camouflage wearing a bullet-proof vest on the floor in the classroom.



All the weapons Lanza was carrying were legally owned by his mother, Nancy, 52, who was discovered dead in her bed on the second-floor of the house she shared with her son with a gunshot wound to her forehead and a rifle on the floor nearby.

This new information from the police rules out any suggestion that Lanza tried to buy weapons himself before his massacre - which had been speculated previously.



Police and officials stand outside Sandy Hook Elementary School in this aerial photograph a day after the mass shooting at the school in December of last year

A loaded 12-gauge shotgun was also found on the backseat of the Honda Civic Lanza drove to the school with two magazines containing 70 rounds of Winchester 12-gauge shotgun rounds.

Self-help books:



At the house, investigators found books about autism and Asperger's syndrome as well as an NRA guide to pistol shooting.

The self-help books included 'Look Me in the Eye – My life with Aspergers,' and 'Born on a Blue Day – Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant.'



In the days after the shooting, former classmates of Lanza said that he did have Asperger syndrome, however, this has not been confirmed by investigators attached to the case.

Video gaming loner:



Police said they found a smashed computer hard drive and a gaming console in Lanza's bedroom.

And an unnamed source told investigators that Lanza was an avid gamer who obsessively played video games and was a loner.



The 'citizen witness', whose name is redacted in the documents, told investigators Lanza 'rarely leaves his home'.

They added Lanza was 'a shut in and an avid gamer who plays Call of Duty, amongst other games.'



Terrifying Inventory: What police found during their investigation



At the school: 1 Bushmaster .223 caliber model XM15 rifle with a 30-round magazine

1 Glock 10mm handgun

1 9mm Sig Sauer P226 handgun

1 Saiga 12 shotgun with two magazines containing 70 rounds

6 30-round magazines, three of them emptied



At the home: A gun safe that belonged to Nancy Lanza that was open with no evidence that it was broken into to

1,400 rounds of ammunition in different locations across the house

Several rifles, handguns and shot guns including an Enfield Albian bolt-action rifle, a Savage Mark II rifle, a BB gun and a .22-caliber Volcanic starter pistol

Three Samurai swords, ten knives



One seven-foot-long spear

One bayonet



Three photographs of an unknown dead person covered in plastic and blood



A military style uniform inside Lanza's bedroom



National Rifle Association certificate's for Nancy and Adam Lanza



A holiday card with a check made out to Adam Lanza for the purchase of a CZ-83 handgun (firearm), authored by Nancy Lanza.



Seven of Lanza's personal journals



An NRA guide to the basics of shooting



A book entitled 'Look at Me: My Life with Asperger's and another book, 'Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant'



A New York Times article about the 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting



A damaged computer hard drive

Sandy Hook report card for Adam Lanza



His mother Nancy was discovered in her room with one gun shot wound to the head and a rifle lying on the bed next to her

Investigators found articles on other shootings and a holiday card containing a check made out to Adam Lanza for the purchase of a firearm, authored by his mother, Nancy Lanza.



Documents indicate that authorities found Nancy's gun safe open with shotgun shells and numerous boxes of bullets - ruling out any speculation that Lanza had forcibly taken the weapons from his mother.



In a bedroom closet, they found ear plugs, a handwritten note regarding ammunition and magazines, paperwork on guns and a seven-foot-long metal bayonet with a blade on one side and a spear on the other.

In a top drawer of a filing cabinet, they found paper targets. In a duffel bag, they found ear and eye protection, binoculars, numerous other paper targets and Lanza's NRA certificate.

And in response to release of the new information linking Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza to the NRA, the powerful gun-rights group denied the accuracy of the police evidence.

Children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, flee after the 2012 shooting that left 20 kids and six adults dead

Twenty first-grade students died in the shooting on December 14th after Adam Lanza opened fire at the school using an assault rifle

'There is no record of a member relationship between Newtown killer Adam Lanza, nor between Nancy Lanza, A. Lanza or N. Lanza with the National Rifle Association. Reporting to the contrary is reckless, false and defamatory,' the statement said.

According to its website, the NRA doesn't offer formal certificates for membership.

Planned Massacre:



In addition to a weapons cache police found items that could offer some clues on Adam Lanza's thinking.

This included an article from The New York Times about a 2008 school shooting at Northern Illinois University and three photographs of what appeared to be a dead person covered with plastic and blood.

The article was dated February 18th, 2008 and was about the school shooting carried out by Steven Kazmierczak at the university in DeKalb, Illinois during which he killed 5 people and injured 21 on Valentine’s Day before he killed himself.



Newtown shooter Adam Lanza was a selective reader and kept a NRA guide to shooting at home as well as 'Look Me in the Eye – My life with Aspergers' The NRA's guide to handgun safety and shooting The NRA Guide to the Basics of Pistol Shooting is a full-color handbook that guides users how to use revolvers and semi-automatic pistols.



It is regarded as a student text for the associations Basic Pistol Shooting Course and provides details on pistol parts and operation, ammunition, pistol safety, cleaning and safety.

It also shows in pictoral form how to fire a gun in a safe position and how to improve shooting skills

The NRA denies Lanza was a member

The touching memoir of an Asperger's sufferer and his struggle with life

Published in 2007, 'Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's' is a memoir of author John Elder Robison's life with autism.

The book describes his battles with social awkwardness such as his inability to look people in the eye and his propensity to indulge in obsessive behavior.

Diagnosed with Asperger's at the age of 40, Robison tells how this changed his understanding of the world and himself and ultimately allowed him to interact with people and start his own family.

Other reading material discovered at the home of Adam Lanza was the self-help guide 'Train Your Brain to Get Happy'

Think your way to being happy: The self-help book that Adam Lanza was reading

This 2011 self-help book believes that 'Happiness begins at the cellular level' and claims that with the proper mental training you can program yourself for happiness

Written by neuroscientist Henry David Thoreau scholar Dr. Teresa Aubele and psychologist Dr. Stan Wenck the book claims to be able to help its readers live a blissful life - each and every day.

Authorities found numerous knives, including samurai swords. They found a military-style uniform in Lanza's bedroom and handwritten notes containing the addresses of local gun shops.

The warrants also make an obscure reference to Lanza's obsession with Sandy Hook Elementary School, which the documents state was the shooters, 'life'.



A Danbury Superior Court judge on Wednesday granted a request by Sedensky, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation, to withhold some details.



Sedensky asked to redact the name of a witness, saying the person's safety might be jeopardized if the name were disclosed.



He also asked that the release not include other information such as telephone numbers, serial numbers on items found and a few paragraphs of an affidavit.



Authorities have said it will take until June or later for the investigation to be completed.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, who has been pushing for much stricter gun-control laws, said the facts in the search warrants 'only add starker detail to what we already know.'

'This is exactly why we need to ban high-capacity magazines and why we need to tighten our assault weapons ban,' Malloy said. 'I don't know what more we can need to know before we take decisive action to prevent gun violence. The time to act is now.'

Adam Lanza | Newtown. Search Warrant 1





The Associated Press and other news outlets have reported previously that Lanza showed interest in other mass killings and authorities found literature on other massacres at his house.

There have been reports that Lanza was obsessed with other mass killers, including Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a shooting and bomb attack in Norway two years ago.



All over in Five-Minutes: Lanza unleashed 155 bullets inside Sandy Hook Elementary in astonishing attack Adam Lanza fired 155 bullets in less than five minutes on the day he killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the chief prosecutor investigating the massacre said on Thursday.

The total included 154 fired from a Bushmaster .223-model rifle and a final bullet, fired from a Glock 10mm handgun, that Lanza used to take his own life, said Stephen Sedensky, the chief prosecutor investigating the shooting

Among school shootings in the United States, the death toll from Newtown is second only to the 32 people killed at Virginia Tech in 2007.



Malloy announced last week that additional information would be released at his request. He expressed concern that some information about the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook reportedly disclosed by a top state police commander at a recent law enforcement seminar in New Orleans was leaked.



'Like many others, I was disappointed and angered to learn that certain information about the Newtown shooting had been leaked, specifically with concern for the victims' families who may have been hearing this news for the first time,' the governor said in a statement.



A column published last week in the New York Daily News, citing an unnamed police officer who attended the seminar, reported that Col. Daniel Stebbins discussed evidence that suggested the Newtown gunman studied other mass slayings and dedicated extensive planning to the rampage.



The seminar was designed for only law enforcement professionals, and sensitive information dealing with the tactical approaches used by first responders to the Sandy Hook shootings was discussed, state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said.

Police released their filed today that document what was recovered from the home of Adam Lanza in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre of December 2012

Senate President Donald E. Williams Jr. said this week that legislative leaders hope to review the search warrant documents before finishing work on a bipartisan bill that addresses gun control and other issues related to the massacre.



A 90-day sealing order expired on the search warrants that were served on Lanza's home and property this morning.



The documents show that the police search of his home also turned up certificates from the National Rifle Association gun-lobby group in the names of both Adam Lanza and his mother, Nancy Lanza.

The assault last December 14 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School prompted President Barack Obama to call it the worst day of his presidency and reignited a debate on gun violence in the United States. In response to the attack, the NRA called for armed guards to patrol every public school in the country.

And the Connecticut prosecutor leading the investigation into the Newtown school shooting says the gunman killed the 26 victims and took his own life within five minutes of shooting his way into the building.

Tragedy: People gather on the New Haven Green during a candlelight vigil to support the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012

Search warrants say the 20-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza, was found dead wearing a bulletproof vest and military-style clothing.

The documents were released on the same day that a group of Newtown residents plan a protest at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, less than 3 miles from the school over the NRA's opposition to new gun control laws. Newtown residents were enraged after receiving a slew of robo-calls on behalf of the NRA bashing anti-gun laws.



