I read a post by a commenter on powerlineblog.com that the shooter's rifle was an Accuracy International AXSR.
Has anyone seen this? No source was posted.
IF that is true, it puts the shooter in an entirely different category, as the possessor of a very expensive, bolt-action rifle made specifically for long range precision shooting--a person proficient in that is clearly not your average shooter.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
I read a post by a commenter on powerlineblog.com that the shooter's rifle was an Accuracy International AXSR.
Has anyone seen this? No source was posted.
IF that is true, it puts the shooter in an entirely different category, as the possessor of a very expensive, bolt-action rifle made specifically for long range precision shooting--a person proficient in that is clearly not your average shooter.

ROF was too high for a bolt gun.

Alright guys. I'm going to say some things. Para knows this already and has mentioned it to me. I've tried to stay out of the political fray to this point, generally feeling that it's a waste of time and that we're in far bigger trouble as a country than what voting can solve. I've felt like both biden & Trump are diametrically opposed embodiments of the worst idealogues America has to offer. That they've collectively brought out the worst in us, and that no matter who "won" it wouldn't really matter because we are already on the road to destruction and there's no turning back at this point.

I WAS WRONG. I WAS SHORT-SIGHTED AND FOOLISH. A FUCKING CHILD. I have never been more wrong in my life. Mea Culpa from the deepest part of my soul.

After yesterday, for whatever it's worth to you guys, I'm all in for Trump. This shit cannot stand. Enough.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
I read a post by a commenter on powerlineblog.com that the shooter's rifle was an Accuracy International AXSR.

ROF was too high for a bolt gun.

Agreed... a semi-auto was employed. That roof top photo showing the deceased shooter also shows a semi-auto rifle near him.

also, it seems there were many people who had no problem spotting the shooter on the roof and tried to get the attention of security with no success - yeah they did a great job

[quote]Per Pedo's statement he is planning an Oval Office address tonight, too.[quote]

They are going to try and regain the momentum that they’ve never had. “The game’s afoot.”

Not very good on the visuals but as far as the audio goes it is the most telling I have heard so far.

At 14sec in you can hear what I assume is the shooter firing three shots followed by a rapid fire five round string. Immediately followed up by a single shot that I assume is from a counter sniper. At around 30sec it sounds like our guy sent one over for good measure.

^Your assessment sounds pretty close.

I agree that, on reflection, the rate of fire was not feasible with a bolt action; I just posted that as a comment to the original post, along with a request for a source for the information.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
..that the shooter's rifle was an Accuracy International AXSR.

The Internet version of the "telephone game". There's talk online about what the SS guys are shooting, someone probably read some of that, repeated it in part, and by the time it came out the other end..."

Stupid gamer adolescents talking shit. Little bastards need to be lined up and have the ever-loving shit slapped out of them.

They've never even seen a rifle like that, much less handled one or are able to speak authoritatively about them.

This is one of the poorer aspects of the internet. Little bastards sitting in their bedroom in mom's house, trying to come across like adults.

https://x.com/SpartaJustice/st.../1812277730102419462




I watched this several times trying figure out the what the spray was at about the 16 second mark on this video.

Seems one of the shooters rounds hit the hydraulic line of the fork lift type piece of equipment. My guess is hydraulic fluid spraying out as the boom (or whatever it is called) with the forks drops down from resulting loss of pressure.

this guy is interesting, he was with Trump yesterday. has some provocative insight regarding a lot of things, and also makes an ominous prediction about what's in store for Biden if he refuses to get out....they're gonna whack him and blame Trump supporters

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I watched this several times trying figure out the what the spray was at about the 16 second mark on this video.

Seems one of the shooters rounds hit the hydraulic line of the fork lift type piece of equipment. My guess is hydraulic fluid spraying out as the boom (or whatever it is called) with the forks drops down from resulting loss of pressure.

Nice. I was wondering about that, too.

I’m horrified to think what the nation would be like today if the shooter had been successful. Could you imagine the horror and chaos with a head shot and pink mist playing over and over.

It’s almost too much to think of the fall out from his death would have caused.

Again, I’m grateful that he survived and saddened by the innocent lives lost and permanently altered.

I was at my niece's baby shower yesterday in Hill County at my buddy's rural home. A few minutes after the shooting, he rushed up to me outside and told me Trump was shot "with a bullet to the head". I freaked, tears coming to my eyes and I ran inside the house to find my wife who has a smartphone, there were about 50 people inside, no TV on. Found her with my buddy's wife, both hysterical, but one of them found news on a smartphone that Trump was still alive and possibly had his ear torn off by a fired round. But for a couple of minutes, I thought Trump was dead or gravely injured, I haven't been that scared in a long time. But I truly believe it was God's intervention, with that quick turn of the head, that kept Trump alive. Got back to our hotel late in the night and was glued to Fox for a couple of hours.

My takeaways- we all knew Trump was a badass, but yesterday cemented it, the man is at the top of the food chain of badassery, the real deal. And the crowd did not panic and stampede for the few exits there, they stood by Trump until they knew he was alive. And Dan Bongino is right- Kim Cheatle did refuse extra S.S. protection for Trump earlier in the year and last year as well, since he is easily the Number One target for political assassination in the world. This is not a knock on field agents, but I would not doubt Cheatle, a DEI proponent, was more motivated by politics than real safety concerns. She should resign tomorrow.

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also, it seems there were many people who had no problem spotting the shooter on the roof and tried to get the attention of security with no success - yeah they did a great job

Being, evidently, outside the perimeter, I wonder if any of those people were armed.

^^^^ well X is gonna be whipped into a frenzie for several days over this, so maybe we'll find out more about the witnesses

Latest headline on the NewsX video news crawl says the FBI has yet to determine a motive

Why in the fuck are they wasting their time to figure out a motive

Have they not been paying attention? Oh yeah, the FBI is part of the problem. They don’t want to find a motive because anyone connecting the dots
will find the FBI is one of the dots