By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-23 16:50:04 | Updated at 2024-09-30 13:27:11
6 days ago
Assault rifle allegedly used by Ryan Wesley Routh in attempt to kill Trump is revealed
The New York Post ^ | 09/23/2024 | Emily Crane
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassin; insidejob
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1) talk about burying the lede.
2) The SKS that Routh had is NOT an assault weapon:
No pistol grip
No select fire
No telescoping stock
No flash suppressor or threaded barrel etc.
1 posted on 09/23/2024 9:37:13 AM PDT by thegagline
To: thegagline
And 3) Another inside job?
2 posted on 09/23/2024 9:38:52 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
To: thegagline
It's a deer rifle, at best.
3 posted on 09/23/2024 9:39:48 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: thegagline
It’s also not an AK-47...............
4 posted on 09/23/2024 9:42:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: thegagline
5 posted on 09/23/2024 9:43:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
6 posted on 09/23/2024 9:44:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: thegagline
Will this be the first ever actual 922r case brought to trial? (regarding the inflammatory wording chosen, 922r’s wording is “adaptable for sporting purposes” but trying to write THAT for consumer reading requires several paragraphs.
Heck, there are whole SITES dedicated to explaining this cryptic law and counting the bits and pieces necessary to make an SKS compliant.
Maybe he tossed in a TAPCO part just to make sure, before he committed a ton of felonies on top of the gun felonies he’d somehow escaped in past, he wouldn’t be “non-compliant.” Ha.
7 posted on 09/23/2024 9:44:44 AM PDT by No.6
To: thegagline
For a guy making a living out of being a handyman and roofer, he seems to have had access to considerable resources.
8 posted on 09/23/2024 9:46:11 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
To: thegagline
Fingerprints. So, no viable shoot ‘n’ scoot.
9 posted on 09/23/2024 9:46:26 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: thegagline
But it is a SOVIET design! Those Russians are at it again!
10 posted on 09/23/2024 9:47:39 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
To: thegagline
> The SKS that Routh had is NOT an assault weapon:
The Gun Grabbers have yet again moved the goalposts and now consider any semi-auto chambered in any Military or LE round with an external magazine to be an "assault weapon".
11 posted on 09/23/2024 9:48:18 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
To: VanShuyten
“For a guy making a living out of being a handyman and roofer, he seems to have had access to considerable resources.”
No kidding. Lots of travel money, money of the magnitude you do NOT make in those jobs.
12 posted on 09/23/2024 9:49:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
To: thegagline
Trump’s game would have taken him well within the effective range of a scoped SKS. It doesn’t have to be a sniper rifle to be good enough for the job. Still, weapons selection by the two (or three) would-be assassins is definitely on the amateur side. When someone who does know better tries this and the Secret Service is as remiss as it’s been, look out.
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