Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Shows the Bankrupt Ideology of Gun Control

AmmoLand ^ | September 17, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Some enthusiasts for “gun control” on the left are trying to claim that Charlie Kirk’s assassination shows that Kirk’s support for the Second Amendment was wrong.

The assassin appears to have used a hunting rifle. It is a variant of the extremely common Mauser 98, with a telescopic sight. It is one of the most common types of hunting rifles existing in the United States, probably in the world. This is the type of rifle that the vast majority of those pushing for more limitations on the ownership and use of firearms specifically remove from their restrictive lists. Even in Australia, it is easier to obtain a permit for this type of rifle than it is for a slingshot.

Hunting rifles with telescopic sights are generally easier to get than most types of firearms, except in the most totalitarian and restrictive countries in the world.

So the area north of Campus Drive Road where the suspect crossed over—you saw some of that in the video that we released last night—consists of a grassy area with trees on the edge of the UVU campus. Investigators discovered a bolt-action rifle wrapped in a dark-colored towel. The rifle was determined to be a Mauser Model 98 .30-06 caliber bolt-action rifle. The rifle had a scope mounted on top of it.

The cartridge cases in the rifle show how the murderer has been indoctrinated with far-left ideology:

Investigators noted inscriptions that had been engraved on casings found with the rifle. Inscriptions on a fired casing read: “notices bulges” capital “O-W-O what’s this?” Inscriptions on the three unfired casings read: “hey fascist!” “catch!” Up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols. A second unfired casing read: “Oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Ciao, Ciao.” And a third unfired case read:

[marktwain]

When the opposition has to resort to force, it shows they have not been able to win with the "force" of their argument.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The Democrats have been screaming for gun registration and bans since 1962.
1962-Call for Handgun registration ONLY! Rifles will not be affected.
1963-Call for registration of All guns and a ban on 5 shot army surplus rifles!
1968-Got a ban on small foreign handguns and 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles.
1971 Call for Ban on small American handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1975 Call for Ban on all handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1981 Actress Lee Grant on ABC’s GMA yells...
“THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984 Call for ban on semi-auto rifles.
1994 Ten year “ban” on “a-s-s-ault rifles”.
2000 Call to ban single shot .50 cal rifles.
Now, in 2025 they are back to the 1964 demands for MORE GUN CONTROL on COMMON 4- shot BOLT ACTION RIFLES.
Rest assured if they get a ban on ANY rifles, they will be back for more, and more and more.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***It is a variant of the extremely common Mauser 98***

Just curious but did this shooter use a Military version of the M-98 converted to 30-06 or a regular M-98 Hunting rifle originally made and imported in 30-06?.

From what I have read the shooter at the ICE facility used a regular 8 MM M-98 army Mauser.

Remember these were the type of rifles the democrats wanted to ban after JFK was killed with an Italian Military rifle. They were banned from import with the 1968 gun control law (till Reagan allowed import of them in the 1980s)

It seems the New England congressmen actually screamed for a ban in 1963 to protect their own Winchester, Remington and Savage arms makers from cheap imports.

[faucetman]

Silly rabbit, gun control is just the first step to confiscation. Which is of course the main objective.

[sauropod]

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[SMARTY]

Thatcher said... ‘When they attack me personally it’s because they can’t debate me on policies or issues’.