Posted on 09/11/2025 5:29:15 AM PDT by Jonty30
EXCLUSIVE: This morning my team received an e-mail from officer at ATF.
The email included a screen shot from what appears to be an internal message describing a weapon and cartridges located by ATF and other law enforcement near the scene of the Charlie Kirk shooting at Utah Valley State University.
“On September 10, 2025, at approximately 12:24PM, Conservative political influencer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at the Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. Mr. Kirk was speaking at the University as part of the American Comeback Tour. Multiple SLC I and III agents responded immediately. The suspect fired one shot from an elevated position on a rooftop in an adjacent building on the campus and surveillance video shows the suspect, jumping off and fleeing the area on foot. ATF and other law-enforcement located an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus. The location of the firearm appears to match the suspects route of travel. The spent cartridge was still chambered in addition to three unspent rounds at the top fed magazine. All cartridges have engraved wording on them, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology. An emergency trace has been submitted an ATF SLC is working leads generated by the trace. The firearm and ammunition have been taken by the FBI for DNA analysis and fingerprint impressions. Upon completion of forensics, the firearm will be disassembled for additional importer information. Multiple people of interest having contacted or detained because of eyewitness testimony and review of video footage. The primary suspect is yet to be identified. ATF is assisting the investigation with multiple other federal, state, and local partners and the case is co-led by the FBI and Utah SBI.””
Commercial Mauser - sporting or target.
Very high quality and very accurate.
If true, it’s likely a campus trans Antifa plot.
“””Tons of surplus 8mm mausers were imported after ww2 and subsequently sporterized - converted to 30-06, bolt handle bent downward and other modifications. Not typically a younger person’s thing”””””””””””
My Dad worked on those a lot in the 50’s and 60’s. Cheap and available.
Like all of us, I have been thinking about this since yesterday.
There seems to be some confusion the distance the shot was fired from. Was it 200 FEET or 200 Yards(600 feet)?
I have shot my 30-6 and 200 feet is a really easy shot with a 3-9X scope. Meaning the person was NOT a skilled marksman.
I say this because they almost missed. IF you were going to shoot him you would most likely aim right between his eyes. The bullet hit him in the left side of his neck. Another inch to the right and it would have missed altogether.
Now, IF this a 200 yard shot it is much more difficult. Although not for a competent marksman. Which I do not suspect the gunman was based on the fact that they nearly missed a stationary target.
I’m right there with you. My primary guess would be a transtifa type.
That said, Kirk was very outspoken on Islam and very bold in speaking out that the whole palestinian Arab nationalism is a fraud.
Yes
So true
A red herring was my first thought.
Yeah, but exactly the kind of decent rifle you buy at a garage sale for cash 20 years ago.
Would a Mauser chambered in 30-06 be considered enough of a oddity at a gun range that it would stand out to employees at the range enough that they’d recall the individual? I don’t know.
There must’ve been previous range time zeroing in the rifle and the rounds.
Maybe this was done at a range within a few hundred miles of the university. The range would’ve had to be able to accommodate ~300 yard distances, which narrows the possible locations.
Probably is being investigated now.
A guy fleeing the crime scene takes the time to wrap his murder weapon in a towel?
That makes no sense.
If it is a red herring, and it’s put out by the white hats, I can see why they’d do it.
Good point.
I don’t know…if I shot someone like that, I would leave the gun. Why walk around carrying it? It is a tool, and in this case, a disposable one.
“and that the old man in the crowd who was initially arrested after immediately saying he did it, provided cover time for the shooter to escape as the police were not then looking for him”...
I said that exact same thing to my wife yesterday.
There is a video from inside over looking the outside area. When the shot is fired everyone in the room reacts to the shot except one middle age man just stands staring out on the event. He doesn’t move. Very strange, he is completely focused on the shooting. Also strange that there is a video of that room, at that time and that person in it. He looks total out of place among the young students and does not even flinch at the shot!
Did not know. Thanks.
Thanks. Didn’t know that.
Omar connected?
Possible interest for replies ping.
You would not shoot for the eyes. You would shoot for center mass. Again, not a tough shot.
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