Take down rifles have been available for a very LONG time.
I have yet to see a picture of the rifle, we hear “Mauser” but have not SEEN a Mauser.
Mausers have also been customised for a very long time, a customized take-down variation is not that hard to do.
I may be one of the few on this board who has actual experiance in manufacturing custom long guns, the rush to conclusions I keep seeing over and over without actual knowledge is very disappointing.
The picture of the rifle I had seen was from a video on the Liberal Hivemind channel on Youtube, he was displaying what the NY Post had on X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTwtMUcFSCI
A Mauser action in a one piece polymer stock. I don’t see how it could be some kind of take-down conversion, that seems particularly elaborate for a sporterized mil-surp that was rebarreled. If I was putting that much money into a rifle, it’d definitely be getting wood furniture.
Even if it was a take down [ which the picture supplied by the FBI is not ], why would he take it down and, presumably, stow in his backpack afterwards, then leave it behind reassemble to be found?
This does stink
So in the still pictures you see of the perpetrator there’s a big rectangular item in his front pocket. Some have speculated it’s a phone but can it be associated in some way with the gun? A clip perhaps?
The willingness to grasp onto any morsel of information about the shooter is very concerning to me. Whether its a rifle that could have been planted or clothes that were tossed to throw off the investigation, it’s hard to disagree that something is off here.
Yup. See my #97.
And, there's a good chance you won't. And, if you do, it won't be the gun that killed Kirk.
Mausers have also been customised for a very long time, a customized take-down variation is not that hard to do.
A stretch limo is also doable. But, I doubt you'll see a college student driving one to school.
That guy ran across that roof like a rabbit. He wasn't carrying a 42" to 48" gun weighing 9 or 10 pounds in his pants or his backpack. At two places in the video, I think I can see him holding a 14" to 16" barrel AR or M4 by the pistol grip. If they found an old bolt-action Mauser in the woods, it was planted there.
Also, they say they found the single fired round still in the chamber. From all of my MANY years shooting bolt-action rifles, the next sub-conscious move I make after pulling the trigger is to grab the bolt and chamber a fresh round in case I missed my target with the first, and/or I needed a backup shot. So, I guess that blows the "experienced" sniper theory.
The powers-that-be are playing the masses like a fiddle, and it's working. I wonder why Patel was strangely silent during the "press conference?" He knows something, and he's not talking, or he's not happy with it.