Sold him the arsenal, now feeling ‘sick’

A GUN DEALER who sold weapons to Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock said he is “physically ill” knowing he helped arm the madman the behind the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

“It made me physically ill to think that we had interacted with him and he had committed such a tragedy,” said Christopher Sullivan, general manager of Guns & Guitars in Mesquite, Nev., a shop near Paddock’s home.

Sullivan (photo) told CBS News that Paddock purchased five rifles from the store in the last year, including one that was sold Sept. 28, the day Paddock checked into the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where he launched an attack that killed at least 58 people and wounded or injured more than 500.

Despite Sullivan’s macabre connection to the shooter, the salesman said he feels no personal responsibility for the deadly terror attack.

“We do everything right,” said Sullivan, adding that Paddock passed the required background checks. “We can’t control what someone does once they leave this store.”

The ATF said Paddock had 24 guns in his hotel room, and 12 of them had bump stocks, an attachment that helps a semiautomatic rifle mimic the shooting pace of a machine gun.

Sullivan said Guns & Guitars did not sell Paddock any automatic weapons, ammunition or bump stocks, according to CBS.

Sullivan reflected on being a footnote to mass murder.

“This morning over coffee I was having a moment in myself thinking that I may have very well been the last person to shake hands with that man,” Sullivan said.