[marktwain]

A very unusual method of attaching a telescopic sight to a rifle.

Routh was in North Carolina months before the attempted assassination. He was stalking Trump for nearly a month.

[marktwain]

FBI image of rifle recovered at the scene.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Oh the convenience of plausible deniability…

[Chainmail]

The SKS is a very reliable, robust combat weapon but anything but a precision shooting instrument. Horrible trigger pull, piss-poor groups (even with a properly mounted, quality scope) and indifferent eastern European ammo (brown lacquered steel case is the giveaway).

So far, we've had two inexperienced and unskilled nutcases try to kill Mr. Trump, who was only slightly protected against these kinds of folks. I lose sleep worrying about the well-trained and experienced killer with a decent rifle getting a shot while the USSS is busy filling its ranks with trannies and other assorted oddballs.

[Antihero101607]

YouTuber,and former congressional candidate Brandon Herrera did a video on the shooter’s rifle, even going so far as to mount the scope in rings, and tape the whole thing to the receiver with electrical tape; damned if he wasn’t scoring hits at 100 yards once he figured out his holdover. Consistent hits even after making adjustments to the taped up scope. Not accurate, but accurate enough to score a hit on a steel plate.

As for irons, Henry Chan over at 9 Hole Reviews did a practical accuracy video on the SKS with iron sights, scoring hits out to 500 yards, with irons only calibrated out to 400 meters.

It ain’t the arrow, it the injun, well the injun makes a difference.

[Revel]

I am not so sure the note is real.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

He never intended to kill, but start something. Too mentally ill to do more. It is all show.

[UCANSEE2]

“When Routh was taken into custody a few minutes after he fled from the fence line by the golf course”

FALSE. He got 50 MILES away in the car before the Sheriff’s Department finally pulled him over.

Things like this cause me to doubt things like his “pre-confession”. The one where he admitted failure a month of so before he was spotted on the golf course. I wish I could find out where he hid his time machine.

[UCANSEE2]

A question for all. Roush doesn’t have a job. Where did he get gas money for his car ?

Roush, when questioned earlier in his ‘career’, stated that his WIFE paid for everything.

He has traveled all over the Middle East, and now was traveling across the US. Where does he get the money ?

WHY has no one even mentioned his wife or at least investigated the source of his funding?