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Yeah, shits not like on TV.

In fact, one of the big reason it's like that on TV, is just so when cops lie in real life, idiots believe them.

They consistently tell suspects "we know your gun fired the bullet" but they don't, at most for handguns they can say "a glock fired it" because they use weird octagon rifling.

Matching it to a specific firearm is impossible unless the barrel is real fucked up in a unique way.

A 30-06 will have such massive deformation, I'd be shocked if any rifling is identifiable.

That doesn't mean the person they claim is the shooter really is tho, all types of shit happened immediately after that only make sense if there was a cover up.

But anyone expecting a bullet to be "matched" to a rifle been watching too much CSI

Same with fingerprinting and blood spatter analysis. There is very little within the field of forensics that is backed by science. Fingerprints are not admissible evidence in many courts.

And even if it does, they'll be so mangled as to be useless. Like you could say "ok the rifle has four grooves at 1:8” but you've got a fraction of a bullet that was squished into an entirely different shape on impact.

In a foreign-made documentary that’ll drop in about 30 years.

Completely and totally unrelated question to the topic because your username interests me.

What kind of communist is Tasslehoff Burrfoot?

our species is too stupid for the internet

Especially for 5.56/.223 where one of the major selling points is the cavitation it causes in soft tissue. "cavitation" being a polite term for "makes fucking explode".

Its why actual footage of mass shootings is so horrifying. Media (and video games that glorify it...) like to paint it as neat little holes when the reality is you have one neat little hole for the entrance wound and a giant fist sized one or larger for the exit.

And all of that does a number on the bullet itself.

The whole bullet gun fingerprint thing is total bullshit, but it’s not completely impossible to determine caliber depending on the size of the fragment which could rule out a specific firearm.

Edit: I dont fucking trust the forensic analyst either and the article stated there were few specifics. I agree with you but just wanted to point out that it is feasible to rule out some things

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.

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.

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.

They didn't release the ballistics results because it is evidence in a case that is in progress.

No, his neck just does that.