Malicious communications, it’s in the article.

There’s no way they’ll make it stick, in fact I predict all charges will be dropped in a couple of days. It’s just a BS excuse to stop them until Mango goes

Agree totally. The entry wound is going to be 30cal sized. It’s the exit that’s the question. If it’s a solid there’s no way a 30-06 slug wouldn’t have kept going and hit something else (like the people behind him), if as was suggested it was a hollowpoint then in my experience the exit wound is going to be several inches in diameter (based on deer and pigs) on a human neck that means at least half his neck would have disappeared.

Neither of those two things happened on the video, hence me doubting the calibre.

On what I saw I’d be guessing 243, or 30-30 maybe even 300 blackout if we hadn’t seen a rifle pic, if the pictured rifle is correct than 300 BLK is way too new.

Anyway, pure speculation as a hunter based on my experience with animals. Just doesn’t match what I’ve observed.

Why are maga “scared shitless of the mormon” ? Serious question. Not American.

Broadly agree with everything you said, and well spotted to pick this one - it certainly has the “sound” of authenticity, the level of detail def gives a bit of confidence.

I’d note that he said “With a new barrel, the rifle could be chambered in anything from .218 to .458. The claim of .30.06 is possible and likely correct.” so he’s just accepting the 30-06 because that’s what’s reported (which in the absence of evidence to the contrary is not unreasonable).

Then again, the other question is whether it actually was the weapon used - we can’t trust this administration as far as they can be thrown.

The bolt handle being changed is entirely plausible, I could see my father pulling out the oxy-acetelene and bending a handle he wasn’t happy without into a better shape. So the sort of guy comfortable doing a barrel swap and furniture replacement wouldn’t be too bothered doing that.

Not the fash end of reddit I avoid that - this thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/comments/1nez6z9/the_rifle_aledgedlies/

They’re basing it on the tail end safety mechanism I think (I can’t see it well enough to be sure), although honestly I suspect they’re just taking the media report of mauser at face value and retrofitting what they see to that

FYI the reddit thread seems to think it’s a mauser 98 in an aftermarket polymer stock. The potato quality photo makes it too hard for me to work it - dunno if they’ve found a better photo

Rem 700 is a good guess, my thought was Ruger American - it doesn’t match the current model of either perfectly but as you say a 20 or 30 year old model will often be different, and yes no piccatinny rail in that pic.

Based on the exit wound shown in the video I doubt it’s 30-06 to be honest - I think your guess of a .270, or maybe .243 would be my guess, particularly given how popular those two were 30 years ago for hunting. I guess could be .308 but as per other post in the thread the sort of damage I’d see on a pig or deer just doesn’t line up with what I’d expect a 30-06 to do and still light even for 308.

Current model Rem 700s and Ruger Americans (which was my first thought) both have the bolt arm bent at about 15-25 from perpendicular rather than the 90 degrees of that pic.

However teh R700s have a screw off bolt handle so that is changeable (I think the american does too)

https://www.remarms.com/rifles/bolt-action/model-700/

https://ruger.com/products/americanRifle/overview.html?n=all

Although the r700 alpha hunter in those pics has a straight bolt arm.

Plausible it’s an older model 700

Did you see the footage ? Yes a hollowpoint / soft tip round is intended to open up, but if a 30-06 hollowpoint had hit his neck, half of it would be gone, which it wasn’t.

It was probably 30 cal (entry hole looked too big for .223) but something with a lot less oomph than a 30-06, and probably not an expanding round either, even from something with less punch.

Lol, yeah I’m getting cautious how I word things to avoid misinterpretation all of a sudden too

308 has less kinetic energy than 30-06

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.30-06_Springfield

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.308_Winchester

308 is 2500-2800 ft/lb 30-06 is 2800 - 3000

Well said

The fuck ? There is absolutely no way that shot was taken with a 30-06.

The slug would have continued on into a bystander. There’s no way it would have stopped like that.

Sure, and that would definitely make it an even easier shot.

A not particularly hard shot for an amateur a doddle for a professional.

<waves> Here’s another. Not even American either.

And yes thank you for saying it’s not that big a deal of a shot if they were using anything remotely decent. Another thread had someone theorising it had to be Russian special forces because of the difficulty of the shot. I mean come on, 200 yards from an elevated platform, clear line of sight, stationary target, clear day no wind. Shooting wise it’s about as easy as it gets.

The difficulty comes in the fact it’s not a deer hunt - the shooter was probably fearing being seen, aware of the consequences of getting caught, if mentally normal then killing another person is very hard, adrenaline up (makes the hands shake and messes with the head), those are the things that make it hard nothing else.

Not the slightest idea who the fuck the Stone Cold Steve Austin is.

Ditto but I’m going to guess a WWE wrestler by the stupid name

Caveat - I don’t use skylight or bluesky

A cursory search indicates the US should work. It also came up with a reddit thread suggesting it’s basically just bluesky - dunno how true that is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1jquvhe/creators_to_follow_on_skylight_social/

"Your followers and follows on Bluesky and Skylight are the same unless you make separate accounts; something to keep in mind. "

Which implies they’re different front ends for the same thing.

Good find although not the article I was thinking OP was referring to. It was more recent, within the last 12 months I think.

My best recollection was that the person had a hotmail or outlook account which was suddenly terminated following criticism of microsoft (possibly their failure to address a security issue). That account was their login/access path to a high profile foss tool. I don’t think the tool itself got taken down in this case.

Not sure how accurate the above is, it’s my vague recollection.

Remember the Github dev who got blocked by Microsoft

It’s funny, I do remember the story, but I can’t find it across multiple search engines (obviously Bing are going to block it so DDG can’t find it, but I also tried startpage, searx, ecosia as well)

Can you point me to any links or give me a few more search terms to help finding it ?

What the actual fuck is “Europe doesn’t/didn’t want to help the US avoid their current fascist dictatorship” supposed to mean ?

What exactly do you think European countries should have done to stop Mango Mussolini being elected ?

Send in German troops to the red states to stand next to the ballot boxes and turn away MAGA voters ?

Send Keir Starmer to hand out leaflets for Harris at the Walmart in ButteFuck Wyoming ?

You dumb fucks voted for him, we can’t fix that for you. We certainly can’t send military in - the US has spent 50 years persuading and forcing the EU to be militarily weak (and 10 years bitching about the consequences of their own diplomatic efforts)

Piss off with this idiocy.