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Charlie Kirk bullet analysis finds no conclusive link to rifle found near scene
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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This story stinks, totally impossible story by the fbi on three counts at least. No shit they didn't release the ballistics results, because that rifle would've made a very different more dramatic wound than whatever hit kirk.
I'm reading a lot, so I have no idea what's true. Everything reads like a conspiracy theory these days.
Like the sheriff who brought in the suspect abruptly resigning coincidentally when the ballistic report was going to be released.
Or apparently the only other case where this happened, that a bullet of that calibre could not be traced back to the gun, was apparently the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
It all starts sounding very believable, but I guess you can do that with any case if you want.
How about the seemingly insane guy who was in the crowd, who after Kirk got shot, started shouting 'I did it, I'm the shooter, shoot me!', got arrested initially, for a few hours they thought this was the actual shooter, then realized he wasn't.
Then, when this guy was being further questioned, he straight up said that he did that so that the real shooter could get away.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e1jx0p5jo
https://www.fox13news.com/news/police-man-claimed-have-shot-charlie-kirk-so-real-gunman-could-escape
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/man-admits-he-falsely-claimed-to-be-charlie-kirk-gunman/105783512
Yep, totally normal, nothing to see here.
I found it interesting that after Joe Kent resigned from being Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, he went on the record to say that the FBI prevented them from investigating any foreign links to the Kirk assassination.
Edit: also, if anyone hasn't seen this comedy bit on the assassination, it's worth a watch.
Between this and the fake assassination attempt on Trump I'm convinced we need to just throw away the CIA and FBI.
plus trying to bury the story how robinson was a right wing nutter, and conservatives cant have that on the news.
He was from a right wing religious nutter family... he's from Utah, this is extremely common there, they're called Mormons...
But, at the same time, he was clearly very much questioning and rebelling against elements of that lifestyle.
I was / am a person not dissimilar to Robinson in at least broad strokes; from a crazy Christian upbringing, began to realize its a toxic, bigotted and factually dubious way of life and worldview as I got to high school and beyond.
Its not broadly accurate to call him a crazy right wing nutter, nor is it broadly accurate to call him a far left gay/trans/furry.
Yep.
So many idiots here in this thread haven't been following this story at all, they known nothing about the autopsy results.
There's no way a 30-06 from the range and angle that Robinson was at... makes the wounds Kirk's body had.
Yup. Said the exact same thing on the day. A 30-06 would have made a fist sized wound (bigger if it hit bone). The wound is consistent with a 5.56 or similar. Much smaller bore lower ft/lb projectile is more likely.
At 150 yards/meters, its something like a 5.56 carries ~950 ft/lbs of force, a 30-06 carries ~2200 ft/lbs of force.
Then you have a significant chunk of the bullet itself lodged in Kirk's shoulder/collarbone.
That's possible if a 5.56 from a different angle went through much of his neck and broke apart in his body.
But if a 30-06 hit his shoulder/collarbone from front on, that bone would have exploded.
If a 30-06 hit his throat/neck from the front, missing the spinal column... it would have blown off, yeah, a chunk of flesh between the size of a fist, an apple, an orange, a grapefruit... and the bullet would not have left a signifigant chunk of itself embedded in the shoulder/collarbone, because it would have just gone straight through the throat/neck.
Have we considered the possibility of multiple shooters? The gun that killed Kirk may not necessarily have been the one that was found.
Just trying to avoid jumping to conclusions.
That is precisely what I think is the case.
I think Robinson was there, but he was being monitored, being shadowed.
There are many more parts of the FBI narrative that do not add up.
They didn't release the ballistics results because it is evidence in a case that is in progress.