my point isn't to say anything abut the family. my point is if the guns came from the kam home then that would mean the guys left home with the guns. if they left home with the guns that would remove all of any little doubt that they planned something before they left home. be hard for someone to stage a death using guns from kam home so any doubts of a third party killing them would be removed for me also if they came from the family home.
The short period of time between them leaving and their first murders makes me think they had the guns with them. And obviously, they took them in the RAV4 through the tribal alcohol checkpoint. Along with ammo.
The burning-of-things makes more sense to me, now. They were making sure they had no backward escape route, no way back home, which was their intent all along. What's odd of course is that there is no particular message attached to their actions (as compared to most of the mass shooters in their age group). But that doesn't mean that a community, somewhere, doesn't know why they did this (in the ideological sense).
Above all, they had to be of a strongly joint suicidal mindset. A friend of mine had a father who wanted to do a joint suicide with his mother. They told no one. The mother apparently agreed to it (it ended up a murder-suicide; the father was the murderer, they were older; he was an admiral in the Navy...) Usually, joint suicides are murder-suicides. But...this was more Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid joint crime/joint death.
With 3 completely innocent people serving as the only "signal" given by KM/BS as to their rage and rampage. "We are going to kill people until we kill ourselves!" The RCMP ended up in the parental role of attempting to round them up and make them stop the behavior. "We are going to eff with your worldview - the world is NOT safe, the world SUCKS, let us show you how much!"
Canada as a relatively gun free place? Nope, not any more (at least, not in the public mind, right now). RCMP must surely be concerned as well.
I bet they took the guns from Kam's family home, in which case the McLeod's are in a world of legal hurt. But if they stole them elsewhere (on the road? from neighbors?) then...unless the people they stole them from are dead, those people should have reported the guns missing.
It's going to remain a legendary case for some time to come.