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as well as a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest
Keep in mind that the person to sold Luigi to the police has not gotten a single cent.
“I can tell you this was a targeted event,” said Robert Bohls, the top FBI agent in Salt Lake City.
Amazing what the FBI can find out. I would never have thought this could have been targeted!
“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” the person asked. Kirk responded, “Too many.”
...The answer is 5.
Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”
“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk asked.
It's apparently impossible to know the exact number...but it is in the high hundreds, or even thousands. If you include gang violence, then the number is almost 7000.
These kinds of arguments are so disingenuous they are practically lies, in and of themselves.
His final moments were trying to paint trans people as a dangerous group, presumably to radicalize people against them, while also minimizing how bad gun violence is.
Truly a patriot. /s
Also trying to turn the question racist. Responding with "including gang violence" is some, not so subtle, dog whistling "blame minorities"
Meanwhile most of these fuckers are white males that go around shooting up schools and other places
He frames his answers as accusations. It’s not disingenuous, it’s deliberate fingerpointing bigotry.
Wait no. I'm gonna rewatch that video and wait for Kirk's answer
Spoiler alert: He chickens out and won't answer it.
Incredible special effects though
Oh wait
According to Grok the blood really elevated the humor and impact of the Charlie getting shot meme. Adds some pizzazz.
"High powered rifle", aka "Hunting rifle".
Still technically correct.
They work better than those low powered rifles.
Do they know what caliber it is? They don't seem to share it in the article...
a high-powered, bolt-action rifle
This is most likely a standard deer rifle.
“I assume, discarding it would be part of the plan to escape. To carry a long rifle. It surprises me the person abandoned it,” Chittum said. “It certainly makes it easier. It’ll have biological evidence and the trace itself will produce leads.”
I’d be shocked if this wasn’t:
The plan was always to leave the gun. That’s just good opsec in this situation.
That’s just good opsec in this situation.
Hegseth sweats nervously
If the shooter did good opsec, then Hegseth certainly wasn't the shooter.
It’s not that he’s nervous - he’s got the shakes because he misplaced his nips
Even if the ammo wasn't paid in cash... It wouldn't matter in most states. 30-06 is flying off the shelves this time of year, because season opener is coming.
"Yeah, let's trawl through 30,000 purchasers of 30-06 this past week..."
That'll narrow it down. I would bet there's more bolt action Mausers in the US than AR's.
Yeah probably not, no.
At least not in the required condition to be able to reliably pull off that shot, in a single shot, and with a 30.06 round.
.........
By, 'an older Mauser in 30.06', I assume they mean a K98k...
... but,
Most K98k's are chambered in 7.92 x 57mm ...
30.06 is 7.62 x 63mm, in metric notation.
Totally different caliber.
There are not too many 'older Mausers' in 30.06.
There is a Norwegian variant that... I think in the 1950s, Norway took a bunch of K98k's and rebarrelled them into 30.06... and some enthusiast K98k owners in the US will do or have this process done themselves, or have managed to import one of these Norweigan ones... but that's pretty high levels of 'guns are my autistic hyperfocus' right there... not too many people actually go to all that trouble.
Anyway, any bolt action Mauser is gonna be like ... 70+ years old. It actually takes a fair bit of proper maintenance and storage to keep such an old rifle in good, reliable, working condition.
Go look on gunbroker or w/e and you can find many K98k's that just look rusted and busted.
...........
So... either the details we have here are wrong in some way... and its a more common, German chambered Mauser in 7.92 x 57 ...
Or this guy pulled off an extremely high profile assasination with a fairly rare rifle, a Mauser K98k rechambered/rebarrelled to 30.06 ... which would thus be relatively easy to trace back to a purchaser/owner/armorer...
Or its not even actually a Mauser, and is just... some, old, 30.06 bolt action rifle.
Sorry to link to the bad site, but here's an even bigger breakdown of actual Mausers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/17y2dk/a_short_actually_kinda_long_guide_to_mausers_now
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Right, also:
At the range to the building where the dude was seen on the roof?
You are going to want a scope.
You're pretty much going to need one to make a shot as accurate and precise as the one we saw.
Keeping a 70+ yo scope in working order is an even more ridiculous idea than a 70 yo rifle... they tend to be very fragile, and of considerably worse quality lenses, have worse magnification, than decent scopes we have these days.
Mounting a scope to a b. a. rifle, back before everything went Picatinny rails... meant that basically every rifle had to have a more or less custom, bespoke, way of handling a mounting bracket, or some other wierd solution, usually only compatible with a small number of actual scopes, or just having the rifle with one built into it that cannot be easily swapped out.
I... really doubt that shot was made by 'an older Mauser in 30.06'.
Something is wrong here.
EDIT:
Ok, here is the image going around, apparently from the New York Post, apparently of the rifle.
That is not an 'older Mauser'.
Sure, it roughly resembles the style of bolt that a Mauser has, basically a 90 degree turn, L shape... but that is a modern polymer stock and housing for the weapon, and that is certainly a more modern scope.
As to it being 30.06... I cannot tell just from looking at it exactly what caliber that is, but I would guess it is probably a smaller caliber than that, such as .270... but it could be 30.06... I can't eyeball that with confidence.
My guess would be that that is a Remington 700, one of the most popular hunting rifles in the US, or at least something from the 7xx family of rifles.
The image quality is not great, and neither are my eyes without glasses, but that does not appear to be a Picatinniy rail... and poylmer stocks/housing has been available on the Rem 7xx series since the 80s....Pic rails seem to have started widely becoming popular (on Remington hunting rifles) roughly in the 00's, later Remington just started actually selling them with Pic rails.
So... yeah, rough guess, but I am going with some kind of Remington 700 or 7xx probably from roughly the 90s or early 00s, again, I honestly can't really tell the precise caliber from this image, Remington makes these kinds of rifles in a wide array of calibers, but it almost certainly is some kind of 'high powered' hunting rifle round.
Possibly a more seasoned hunter/rifleman than myself, or someone better versed in the smaller details could nail it down a bit more accurately... like uh, perhaps based on exactly how much of a cut out exists for the bold handle by what year, how flush it makes the whole rifle, or other details, maybe the trigger guard notably changed in shape at some year, or then sling mount points got moved or something.
Not sure how he would have even kept it hidden. The quality of the image is shitty, but it seems like it would be pretty difficult to hide it in a pants leg or something.
Not sure if it could be partially disassembled and hidden in a normal backpack? It looks like he might be wearing one in the other photo
These were apparently taken in the stairwell before the shooting, and the independent reported he jumped from the roof to another building before apparently jumping from that building and leaving the campus by foot... Apparently while holding that rifle?? Idk this just keeps getting weirder.
Was he jumping across rooftops carrying the rifle only to ditch it in the woods later? Why not ditch it on the roof?
Going up stairs with a rifle barrel down your pants leg would be challenging.
Current model Rem 700s and Ruger Americans (which was my first thought) both have the bolt arm bent at about 15-25 from perpendicular rather than the 90 degrees of that pic.
However teh R700s have a screw off bolt handle so that is changeable (I think the american does too)
https://www.remarms.com/rifles/bolt-action/model-700/
https://ruger.com/products/americanRifle/overview.html?n=all
Although the r700 alpha hunter in those pics has a straight bolt arm.
Plausible it's an older model 700
I don't even know nuthin' 'bout no guns and my brain still filled in the phrase "thirty aught six" when I read that link.
I read it's one where you have to load each round separately, I guess the hunter was sure of his shot. EDIT: thanks for the corrective info, dudes.
Charlie did have a certain deer-in-the-headlights face. Maybe he should have been wearing a red vest.
Nah. That's usually a "break action" rather than a "bolt action". Bolt action will still likely have a magazine where you load a few rounds and need to "work" the bolt to discharge spent casings and load the next round.
If the data leaks are accurate it was a .30-06 mauser. Which would explain the instant severed spine and gush of blood from the footage. 5.56 just isn't that large of a round and likely would never be able to make that type of wound with one round.
Yeah, I was wondering/thinking the same thing. It's probably just a Remington 700 chambered in .270
Comment honoring Melissa Hortman
Even better: a bait and switch.
"Once again, we have lost a true American patriot. Assassinated in cold blood by traitors waging WAR on not just our country, but our way of life and freedom. Our voices will not be silenced! They took one of our best and brightest, most outspoken voices of reason—for doing nothing more than daring to threaten their radical agenda. They will not take another, so help us God. Never forget 2025. Never forget Melissa Hortman."
Yea I imagine someone carrying a gun would blend in pretty well there.
So... he just dropped his gun?
Seems like bullshit to me.
.30-06 can be pretty heavy and also found at most lawnsales if that is in fact the type of rifle used. I'd leave that shit right where it was too
So then what about those photos of the “person of interest”? He wasn’t carrying a rifle or anything else… I’d expect to see him carrying the rifle or something of similar shape/size. If those were from before the shooting then how did he get the rifle up to the roof? If they were from after the shooting then how did the rifle get to the woods where it was found?
Leave the gun, take the cannoli
Why would they carry the weapon and run? It draws attention and helps more easily ID the shooter later. Ditch the gun and act like any other scared attendee running away.