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[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 65 points 3 weeks ago

Total BS. Engraving on a small, curved surface, legibly is hard as hell. Then that bullet is going to get grooved in a rifled barrel, and most likely deform or fragment on impact.

We should probably be talking about how Trump used a fucking AI video to address Charlie Kirk's death. There's a good chance Trump is doing this as a false flag

[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 weeks ago

False flag is exactly what this is.

I’d be shocked if this wasn’t a decision directly from Trump and his magat minions they follow him around to distract from Epstein and further slide America in the hell hole of fascism that it’s facing.

Hurry up Americans. You won’t have an America soon at this rate.

Line item number 2.

[-] alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No way in fuck they purposely had Kirk assassinated.

  1. His job as a propagandist / hate spreader is way too important and influential to stop
  2. they could’ve martyred a similarly famous, but less influential, republican and gotten the same response
  3. they’re going to go forward with their plan- they don’t need an excuse
  4. this happened in a red state, why wouldn’t they pick a blue state?
  5. I really don’t think Epstein files matter that much for republicans. A video could come out of Trump raping a child and it would be chalked up to ai and they wouldn’t believe it
  6. the news cycle is so short- this won’t remain a hot topic for a long amount of time

It’s a convenient distraction, sure, but it’s been proven time and time again that they don’t need distractions to carry out policy. If there’s any conspiracy to be had, it would be surrounding the (relatively) unanimous rhetoric that his death was a tragedy. When kids die in Gaza everyday, a regular citizen is shot, or someone kills themselves because of financial strain we don’t debate the morals of their unjust death. However when a famous white man is killed he isn’t just a statistic but an example of how awful people can be.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I doubt it too, but you are exaggerating this man's importance and influence to an absurd degree. He'll be replaced by another grifter in weeks.

[-] alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think Kirk was a major reason for an uptick in republican youth voters because he was so famous on social media. I’ve noticed young men my age, who vote democrat, like a reel featuring Charlie Kirk because he “owned a silly lib” in an amusing way. His job was touring college campuses- upon invitation from college students- to spread hate and try to convince young people that their politics and identity were wrong.

I would compare him to Andrew Tate because they spread a relatively similar sermon of hate and individualism, but Tate isn’t a political activist. He doesn’t bring people to the polls like a Charlie Kirk can. Another comparison would be Trump, but Trump can never relate to the youth because he’s still just an old man.

I agree he’ll get replaced and this won’t really slow down the machine, but the man had quite the impact on young people.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, agree. They could have offed Laura Loomer for a tenth of the price and worked just as much viral juice out of it.

Besides, i really don’t care, do u?

[-] yeather@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

You’re one level too low.

[-] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 weeks ago

They're almost certainly saying bullet but meaning casing. But yes I have to say that it's pretty unlikely.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

No good marksman is carving anything on a bullet or casing. You want it to work. Carving the bullet means changing the ballistics, carving the casing means potentially making the round not chamber or having a misfire from a busted casing.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

It's most likely a bolt action rifle, there's nothing to chamber here...

I think I know what you're driving at, but first let me address what you actually said real quick. A bolt action rifle does absolutely have a chamber, the chamber is the rearmost part of the barrel where the round sits and is held in place before firing. Its fitted to the specific round that the gun is designed to use to create a gas seal to ensure the projectile can be propelled down the barrel.

What I believe you were driving at is that, due to the chambering mechanism on a bolt action rifle being manually operated, as opposed to relying on the recoil action/gas discharge of the firearm to drive the bolt back and a spring to drive it forward, means that it less likely to jam or fail to seat. This is true, for a variety of reasons, but a bolt action rifle can jam, especially if you go futzing around with the casing or the projectile. You're less likely to see a stovepipe, I've only seen it when the case managed to fall back into the action instead of being ejected off to the side, but a complete failure to eject, a failure to seat or even a double feed are all possible 'jams' with a bolt action rifle.

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

Any idea what could cause a bolt to fly back when fired once and function properly in the future? We were all stumped

I can think of a few possible but highly unlikely scenarios for a typical bolt action rifle to do this, but nothing that would be easy to duplicate. Generally the bolt handle will be at least passively 'locked' in place by the geometry of the bolt and rifle, and sometimes actively locked in place. If the bolt handle isn't fully seated, there really shouldn't be a way for the firing pin to release. Wear and lack of maintenance could cause an issue like this, but I would expect the incident would be repeatable.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That would be my guess. A broken bolt seating.

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 9 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like they're saying the un-shot ammunition found with the rifle had the engravings. If I'm mistaken on that, could you please link to where they're saying bullet specifically?

Still, as someone who's tried to paint tea cups, have to agree, curved surfaces are a bitch to mark legibly (probably harder on the smaller surface of a bullet casing).

[-] deacon@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Be careful about spreading the AI story. I view it as debunked unless you’ve got something better than this exchange:

https://lemmy.world/comment/19332953

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