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iirc the shot was 300 yards with iron sights. That's not impossible but it's not easy either. Someone who doesn't shoot often would definitely have trouble with that
100 yds with iron sights isn’t exactly easy.
Does it matter if he used blanks?
Yes, I'm implying this was staged and he was just used. Maybe he was even told that he was there to protect trump as a secret backup to USSS. There are a lot of mentally ill people that you could convince of anything.
He didn't use blanks, he just missed the target. Unless his target was the firefighter behind Trump in which case he did well. Trump got scratched by either shrapnel (possible), one of the SS officers jumping on him (likely) or it was a blood squib (conspiracy). But he did feel his ear before the SS officers jumped him.
Anybody remember that line from Shooter?
Maybe crazy... but....
Why are you assuming he killed that guy?
If this was staged why would trump give even a tiny chance of being hurt by some loon?
There were multiple shots fired at the moment.
Because the guy is dead?
I'm not disputing the guy is dead. I'm saying there were multiple shots fired from different places.
We have guy dealing with people not afraid to commit a mass murder to get what they want.
Blanks than killed one and sent two more to hospital. Magic blanks.
it had back up irons but also a red dot. I doubt he took the shot with the irons flipped up.
IIRC, the shot was also just inside where the rifle would be effective.
The rifle is effective at ranges further than the shooter. In most cases. That rifle is more than capable of a killing shot from there, and further.
He was 130 m or so away. 5.56 is deadly from further. A lot further.
Every marine qualifies with 5.56 at 500m
I don’t like that this is thrown around like it means anything. You do not need to hit that target to qualify, and you will not be very combat effective at that range anyway. Range quals ≠ combat effectiveness.
Qualifying on a range and hitting a target dead on in a real situation is not the same thing.
Not even close. In the Marine Corps, we qualified at 500yds with effectively the same rifle using iron sights
First, not even close. The moa of the rifle used was 2-3, where both the m4 and m16 are about 1. It was a crappy rifle that sold as a very-budget rifle. It wouldn’t even qualify as “good enough”. Like the m16.
Secondly, the ammo he was using was a lighter loading for target shooting and lower energy.
As set up, it was at the edge of what crooks could be effective at (which is significantly lower than what he can hit at.) even if Crooks had the skill to make the shot. (Which he didn’t.)
his ear also never got shot, and he had blood on it somehow? where did it come from. hence the staging accusations.