That or people with common sense.
This crossed my mind, too. Seems like they’ve got his scent now, though.
A tech-savvy assassin would throw all his stuff (including gun) in a bag tethered to a drone, and program the drone to fly to a secret location.
It would take a pretty massive drone to carry that much equipment. I’m not sure how well something that size could (literally and figuratively) fly under the radar.
Can confirm that that is what the inside of the building looks like. (this is local to me, been in there many times).
It isn’t clear what part of the roof the shot was taken from, there is public access to much of it.
A Mauser doesn’t break down that easily. He could have quickly removed the scope and bolt, but that’s about it. Those things don’t come apart like an AR. But a scoped rifle, 140 yards…that’s an easy shot. Wrong, but easy.
Yep.
I haven’t heard anyone say that the weapon and the round have been matched.
(oops - the phony quote is my fault)
Was it 140? I had read 200 yards. I do not shoot guns so not sure if another 60 yards is a big deal or not for that rifle. 30% further though so that seems significant.
I’ve seen estimates of between 140 and 200 yards, so it seems that it could be either, or somewhere in between.
They haven’t released any details on the rifle yet, except that it was a bolt-action. Still, I’ve shot rifles before, on a range, that were capable of hitting the bullseye at 200 yards. All you need to do is to set your sights for the necessary distance.
Loaded with 150 grain bullets, the .30-06 is a fast, often spectacular killer of lighter medium game. Many bullet designs boast excellent performance out to ranges of around 650 yards while the 155 grain A-Max produces wide wounding out as far as 800 yards.
Loaded with 165-168 grain bullets, the .30-06 has both high velocity and high down range killing power. Hunters can choose stout through to highly frangible bullets which cover a wide range of body weights and hunting situations including both woods hunting and long range hunting, out to 800 yards.
Loaded with stout 180-220 grain bullets, the .30-06 is an excellent performer on heavy body weights. Heavy bullets and mild velocities ensure deep penetration. On the heaviest of game, the .30-06 cannot be expected to produce wounding of the same diameter and depth as the big bores, however the .30-06 is entirely adequate in extreme situations where care is taken with shot placement.
Loaded with 178-210 grain high BC, frangible bullets, the basic 24” barreled .30-06 produces wide wounding on both light through to large medium game out to ranges of around 900 yards (1400fps), becoming subsonic at around 1170 yards.
https://www.ballisticstudies.com/Knowledgebase/.30-06+Springfield.html
Most of these MAGAts are so fucking stupid that I doubt they understand that. All they understand is “something something Hitler something something evil lefties”.
I have no doubt of the performance (clearly seen here).
To me it is, “How ‘easy’ was that shot?” That I have no idea about. Doubtless it takes some practice and familiarity with the weapon. Just not sure how much.
I have no idea of this guy’s level of training, clearly he had a bit, but anyone who Googled up “how to be a sniper” would find that bolt-action can be advantageous if you don’t want to be seen, because it lets you control the ejection of the flashy tumbling cartridge.
I have to say, though, approaching a task like this with a single-shot rifle is informative. Either he knew he was only going to get one shot, or that he would only need one shot, or both. Or an incredible combination of nonchalance and luck.
The big thing is something I don’t think we’ve heard yet, was he firing from ‘iron’ sights or was the rifle scoped.
I’d also like to note that the media are already wringing their stupid hands about how we live in an age of political violence.
Which is horseshit. Political violence is and remains exceedingly rare in the US. It is absolutely not the point to be taken from this.
Or maybe it was just the only rifle he had readily available when he found out the Kirk would be on campus.
We don’t know if it was a single shot rifle, though. My .22LR plinker is a bolt-action, but it does have a magazine.
My old competition rifle, also a bolt-action, was a true single shot. You loaded it manually, shot it, ejected the spent brass, and manually reloaded it again. It had no magazine.
When I was in Boy Scouts, most of the .22s we had for Rifle were like that. I got the bolt action that actually had a 5 round magazine because I shoot lefty and every available gun was both bolt action and right handed.
Just to be clear, it’s Horst-Wessel-Lied, not ‘lied’.
Yesterday I posted on FB, ‘People are saying that Trump had Charlie Kirk killed so that people would stop talking about the Epstein files.’ An hour ago, Occupy Democrats posted basically the same thing, with pictures.