Posted on 09/11/2025 8:26:46 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Ammunition found in the rifle believed to have been used in the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was reportedly engraved with slogans linked to transgender and antifascist ideology.
Newsmax could not independently verify the claims from reported Justice Department emails. The FBI declined respond, when reached for comment.
A DOJ source told Newsmax on background, because they were not authorized to speak to this aspect of the investigation, the evidence uncovered will be released when the administration deems it appropriate to do so.
Because the investigation is active and the shooter remains at large, any information on the markings or shooter's ideology will not be shared publicly at this time, the source stressed.
The DOJ is urging reporters to not share unverified reports as the high-priority and sensitive investigation unfolds.
"As this is an ongoing investigation, the FBI declines to comment," the FBI National Press Office emailed in a statement.
According to an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the case, the older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle was recovered in the woods near Utah Valley University, where Kirk, 31, was shot Wednesday while speaking at a Turning Point USA event, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The weapon was wrapped in a towel and had one spent cartridge in the chamber and three unspent rounds in the magazine, all bearing engravings, according to sources.
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Prayers for Charlie, his Family and 9/11 victims.
Really? How many words can you scratch into a 30.06 shell casing, and to what end - do the words make the shot more deadly? I think this is a distraction. An anonymous email sent has no credibility and only makes people look stupid for spreading rumors.
Thanks, Jon!
Strange - it seems quite self-defeating to engrave shell casing, in that it offers huge clues to law-enforcement, when the goal of the shooter, besides killing Kirk, is to escape.
Or it could be purposeful misdirection. For example, foreign intel services trying to stir discontent.
Anyway, something doesn’t add up.
Thanks, Rktman!
Well color me fkg surprised - NOT!
I need to go take a walk outside to cool off - before I say something that will get me suspended ...
Follow the money. Charlie Kirk had been vehemently opposed to continuing the grift in Ukraine for years. He had close contact and influence on President Trump himself. This will be painted as always as a lone psycho gunman but follow the money. Don’t do a disservice to Charlie Kirk by forgetting his actual messages.
Or perhaps it’s just typical to leftist lunatics who do not typically think in rational terms.
Newsmax is in the more reliable part of American Media.
Sounds fishy. Could the Chicoms, the Norks, the Ukes, the FSB or the Pallies have pulled off the hit and then planted the rifle as a distraction
Indeed. What I call their “insufferable self righteousness” compels them to broadcast their views. Disguising the motive would defeat the purpose of doing it at all
Anything I say will just be the obvious. We have reached the point where major political parties, courts, psychiatrists, and every other idiot in our society has accepted and enforced the delusions of mentally ill people. This is how far it’s gone.
Just asking a question, the purported memo says that all cartridges had transgender and anti-fascist ideology expressed on them. That seems like an awful lot of information to engrave on a bullet cartridge.
Same things as the Minneapolis shooter. It is domestic terrorism.
Find who is funding it, who is organizing it and end it now DOJ.
This is not a “Free speech” issue, this is not a “gun violence” issue. The Democrat party has egged on an orgy of political violence in the US since they started losing elections to Trump.
They incited this, they fueled this, they own this.
Could be a fake job to throw off LEO.
These crazies lost their benefits or the drugs and surgery coverage and are loose wires on the streets .
Open up the mental wards now .
4 cartridges, the spent one still in the chamber and the 3 still in the magazine.
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