Posted on 03/30/2026 7:02:51 PM PDT by algore
The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle used by suspected killer Tyler Robinson, a bombshell new court filing states.
Robinson, 22, is facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence for Kirk's murder at Utah Valley University on September 10.
But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 'was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.'
The defense team may now offer the ATF firearm analyst's testimony as exculpatory evidence, they said in a motion filed on Friday to push the preliminary hearing back at least six months, Fox News reports.
'The defense team has devoted, and will continue to devote, significant resources, to processing discovery, including identifying materials not yet received to inform readiness for the preliminary hearing,' the filing states.
'However, the defense team is realistic and the comprehensive review required to determine what is missing will take hundreds of hours.'
'What is known at present is that Mr Robinson has not yet received the forensic case files and data necessary to investigate, through the use of qualified experts, the scientific reports the state intends to introduce at the preliminary hearing,' the attorneys continued.
His attorneys have previously noted that pretrial publicity reached as far as the White House, with President Donald Trump saying shortly after Robinson's arrest that he hopes 'he gets the death penalty.'
They are now expected to show evidence at the hearing they believe contains 'harmful and prejudicial media coverage of this case thus far.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The cigarette smoking man set Oswald up as the patsy in one episode.
https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Musings_of_a_Cigarette_Smoking_Man
Headline says did NOT match, article says may not match...
FAKE NEWS!!!
Headline says did NOT match, article says may not match...
I am a bit confounded by this,so I am hoping someone can help me.
When did they recover the bullet?
Bullet too fragmented to analyze.
I agree but one thing worries me, how did Charlies neck stop a 30-06 bullet? It seems like it should have never slowed down.
Sloppily written article, probably by someone who knows bupkis about firearms and firearm forensics, but nothing says outright and unequivocally that this bullet COULD NOT have been fired from that rifle.
Move along, nothing to see here.
“A Hail Mary from the defense.”
It would seem that the defense would know that bullet caliber can be easiy determined.
I have never believed that a 30 caliber rifle round could be stopped by a human neck.
I agree but one thing worries me, how did Charlies neck stop a 30-06 bullet? It seems like it should have never slowed down.
My best guess is the bullet hit the spinal column and deflected down into the body cavity. We do not know what angle the bullet hit the neck at. Probably much less than 90 degrees. Bullets can do strange things after contact with flesh and bone. Anyone who has shot a number of big animals will tell you that.
Not the same as the bullet DIDN'T come from the rifle used by Robinson. But, then again, lots of folks think it could not have been the rifle Robinson had that was the murder weapon, ballistically speaking...
No surprise here because the video doesn’t match what a 30.06 does to a body.
“I agree but one thing worries me, how did Charlies neck stop a 30-06 bullet? It seems like it should have never slowed down.”
https://www.precisionreloading.com/cart.php#!l=HN&i=23010
Depends on the bullet type. A 110gr polymer tip like a VMax is going to fragment in the first two inches of penetration and be nothing but frags after that on a large enough mass there would be no exit holes as all the frags are retained. The human neck is surprisingly resilient it is holding up a watermelon sized solid mass of bone and fluids after all.
It’s been reported already than the bullet struck his vertebrae and shattered them bones can easily stop bullet fragments the 30-06 is not some magic death ray with movie like knockdown. It’s a medium power rifle round many are stronger by double as much kinetic energy. At 100+ yards air resistance has already dropped the velocity down by hundreds of FPS you won’t get the same effects at 200 yards as you would at the muzzle.
What this article is poorly trying to explain is that the bullet fragmented and therefore could not be matched to the rifling of the barrel of this weapon or any other for that matter it never will match as it’s pieces of what was a whole bullet. This is also why you see the entry wound and no exit holes the drags stayed embedded in his neck. Again not unlikely for a medium power rifle round. Pretty much any soft tip bullet polymer is not is fragmenting on a bone strike it’s why you use bonded or partition bullets when you need to penetrate bones.
Like this not the polymer tip from above. These are specifically designed to stay together even on hitting bone.
https://www.nosler.com/products/bullets/product-line/partitionr.html
This Robinson case from the get go has postulated the most ridiculous case theory I have ever seen in my 80 plus years of life. What dumbfounds me is how many on this site go along with the theory that Charlie was killed with one shot from Robinson’s grandfather’s 30.06.
Some food for thought for Daily Fail readers...
KanekoaTheGreat
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What a misleading headline from The Daily Mail.
The ATF ran a tool mark analysis on a bullet jacket fragment recovered from Charlie’s autopsy.
The result was “inconclusive” โ not “no match.”
The jacket was too fragmented to compare, which also partially explains the lack of an exit wound.
The bullet shattered on impact.
“Inconclusive” means insufficient evidence to draw any conclusion.
It doesn’t mean the bullet “did NOT match” the rifle like the headline says.
The defense wants to use “inconclusive” as exculpatory evidence โ but the prosecution wants to run chemical or molecular analysis comparing the jacket alloy to ammunition recovered with the gun.
Unlike tool mark analysis, it doesn’t require an intact bullet.
The defense is trying to block that testing from happening.
That’s the nuance of the real story.
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That’s my take. It’s not evidence that it “isn’t” a match, positively...only that, due to whatever state of the bullet, they weren’t able to positively declare it IS a match.
There’s a difference and the defense is spinning it to assert something the findings did not conclude.
How about the second guy who got shot and killed? I hear nothing about him.
heads up
He’s innocent, sentenced to time served, allowed to sue.
There are holes in the case big enough to drive a Mac truck through. Anyone who has watched the videos of the assassination knows that.
The FBI saying not to investigate things like foreign involvement is a huge red flag.
It was an obvious conspiracy involving those who were assigned to protect him.
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