Posted on 09/23/2024 9:37:13 AM PDT by thegagline
The alleged gunman accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course had 11 rounds loaded in his assault rifle, federal prosecutors said Monday — as they revealed the first close-up photo of the weapon.
The image of the Soviet-designed SKS rifle that was found stashed in Ryan Wesley Routh’s alleged sniper’s nest at the West Palm Beach golf course on Sept. 15 was included in a detention memo filed Monday. The rifle has been modified with a detachable magazine, a modern stock and a scope to make it more accurate to shoot at long range.
The serial number on the rifle was “obliterated and unreadable,” prosecutors alleged.
Routh’s fingerprint was also allegedly found on the weapon, the court papers state.
The feds found the firearm — as well as backpacks and a GoPro camera — soon after the 48-year-old suspect fled the hiding spot where he’d allegedly been waiting to take a shot at the former president.
*** Authorities who searched his car subsequently found six cellphones, including one that showed a Google search of how to travel from Palm Beach County to Mexico, the court papers charge.
They also found a list with dates in August, September and October – as well as venues where Trump had appeared or was scheduled to appear, prosecutors said.
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Good points.
Re SKS:
They’re fun, rugged carbines that shoot the 7.62x39mm round…
That’s about it. Precursor to the AK47. A very limited number of them actually saw some action on the eastern front late in the war.
Love the ugly little things…
Last choice for a sniper weapon.....
They used to practically give them away 30 years ago.
The m1943 round requires a peyronies mag to feed correctly.
...he said, dripping with incurable NeoCon sarcasm. LOL!
Gotta say I’ve had it up to here with these dolts who seem to think — despite the USSR being a dead letter for nearly 35 years — Russians are all still Soviet commies. That crap’s gonna get us dragged into a shooting war sooner or later, and it looks like it might be sooner. A LOT sooner.
Anyone who has ever worked with aftermarket plastic-tactic garbage for the SKS knows that none of these are “upgrades”
Wood, oil and a bayonet. Anything else and sks is simply ruined.
I forgot what state it was, but it was in the north east where they wanted to pass a law that literally would only allow you to have one round magazines or something to that affect.
He did save a lot of money with Geico.
Well, 2 questions come to mind:
1. Where did he get it?
2. If we had stringent gun control laws ( e.g., Kamala’s mandatory buy back program), would that prevent him from getting it?
Getting a definite Oswald -1963 vibe on this one.
Kind of makes me wonder where the real shooter was hiding or what the real goal of this stunt was.
But was it black? You judge an assault rifle by the color if its finish, not by the content of its accoutrements.
The definition accepted (and repeated) by the US Army is the one written by Harold E. Johnson in his 1967 book, Small Arms Identification and Operation Guide -- Eurasian Communist Countries [FSTC-CS-07-35-66] (Section III. ASSAULT RIFLES):
Assault rifles are short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachinegun and rifle cartridges.
Assault weapon, on the other hand, is a complete contrivance, a "term of art" invented from whole cloth by Kilnton demoncrats. The term did noe exist in the lexicon of guns and firearms prior to 1989.
And after all, what is the purpose of any weapon, in fact all weapons, if not to "assault?"
Exactly. Stock SKS work just fine. Stick a magazine in there and all bets are off.
having one myself, and taken it for shooting many times, I love it, it’s got a distinct sound.
It also bears mention that not all AK-47s are "assault rifles" because those manufactured for a primarily civilian market are not "selective" fire and fail to meet Johnson's definition.
And by that same token, some few AR-15s are (or were) assault rifles because Colt made some fully-automatic examples before any US military service had adopted them that were stamped "AR-15" and were issued to Snake-Eaters in Vietnam (who, I might add, were quite favorably impressed with them). So fully-automatic AR-15 "assault rifles" saw combat in Vietnam.
The SKS assault rifle is the predecessor to the AK-47 assault rifle and uses the same 7.62 x 39mm ammunition as the AK-47.
The AK47 was select fire (full automatic), the SKS was not and never was, so not an Assult Rifle (if you define assault rifle as having select fire)
I thought real AK-47’s use 7.62 x 51 and &.62 x 39 was a NATO round?
Oops. That should be 7.62 x 39
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