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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Oops. That should be 7.62 x 39
And i would bet 20 bucks that detachable mag doesn’t work. I Had one. It looks scary but it would never feed the chamber. Original has a box mag and can be loaded with a stripper clip from the open breach.
Both the AK and SKS use 7.62x39
Haha!!! Yes, indeed, brother… That ain’t no Dragunov, fer sure…
Wait, I thought Donald and Vlad were besties.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They were, out of mutual professional respect and a mutual desire to deter any MAD confrontation.
Now, however, Vlad sees that Trump’s Marxist-Democrat opponent may actually end up in the White House.
If that happens he can sit back and watch as she and her handlers destroy America without any risk to him or his country.
That man is no fool or he wouldn’t have survived as long as he has.
Didn’t he spend some time in Ukraine recently?
That developer “friend” of Trump’s....Witkoff....in an interview called the weapon a “machine gun.”
I assume he knows more about real estate development than firearms.
Is that a dragunov?
It is no longer “assault rifle
“ everything is “assault style” now.
Just like global warming is “climate change.” It is undefineable and means what ever the democrats want it to be.
Do you think the average Gen-Z libtard "journalist" knows the difference between an SKS and an AK-47?
To them, they look identical.
The SKS is a spray and pray weapon.
Not a sniper rifle.
I have a Ruger 22 semi auto with a scope. It is all black.
It has a mind of it’s own.
I cannot trust it.
You have to keep it in its place. Give it an LR round and it’ll go an extra 1,000 yards.
From the corrosion on parts of it, it appears he may have found someone’s stash of weapons that had been “tragically lost in a boating accident.”
Not even spray and pray; other than one full auto model (the ChiCom Type 63), it was developed in early 1945 as a semiauto replacement for the Mosin carbines (M38 and M44) and full size Mosin rifles (M91/30).
Some saw limited use at the very end of WWII in field trials.
Definitely not a sniping rifle, you are correct.
And just where was it parked agaiN?
But it’s not the type of rifle that is the real issue… That’s a convenient distraction
The real issues are how did this clown manage to get from Hawaii to Florida, pick up an obviously modified SKS rifle, managed to get himself on the grounds of Mar a Lago for 12 hours ahead of a non-scheduled golf game, and get himself situated to potentially take a shot at President Trump… A convicted felon with 74 arrests can’t just walk into a gun store and buy a rifle…
Those are the real issues being overlooked… Or ignored… Or intentionally covered up
The Gun Grabbers have yet again moved the goalposts and now consider any rifle to be an "assault weapon".
Everything with a barrel. < /liberals>
I’m aware of the SKS ammunition. My post dealt with people referring to Routh’s gun as an AK47, which has an automatic fire capability, which the SKS didn’t/doesnt.
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