The real question was, did the USSS agent actually SEE someone handling the “rifle”?
Or, did he just empty his mag on a black, metal tube and claim an assassination attempt.
Need the 302, folks.
Wot did the agent see? It’s already been established that the only thing he saw was a gun barrel poking thru the fence. He hit no one because there was no one there. Routh had stepped back to his car.
And a couple other things come to mind with the prosecutor showing better pics of the Routh’s Gun which was a modified Type 56 SKS.
If Routh has any actual brains he can defend himself from the gun by pointing out several things. It’s difficult to mount a scope on a Type 56 SKS. They weren’t made for that and it looks like he used a couple of muffler clamps to mount this one. He could argue that the gun wasn’t bore sighted and couldn’t have made a hit.
Additionally, the original magazine had been removed and replaced with an after market detachable mag that uses an extended finger. It’s difficult to make them work and he could argue that the gun wasn’t really functional.
The agent describing the safety also doesn’t seem to know how the original would work .
So far there’s been no mention of the Fedz actually test firing the gun to establish that it actually works. Routh could use that. Why the bleep is it that no one in the gummint can get it right where hoodlum guns are involved. Still waiting for a detailed description of the Orem gun.