UPDATE: I don't know why I didn't recognize this before, but the iron sights mounted on the rifle used by Crooks were, indeed, mounted 90-degree off axis so that the rifle could be laid on its left side and fired comfortably from a prone position, without the rifle magazine getting in the way. I should have seen this, as I have a set of 45-degree iron sights that achieve a similar thing, but for the record, it is highly unusual to see anyone mounting a rear iron sight in a 90-degree configuration. I'm not even sure what hardware would be necessary to achieve that, and my first concern would be that such hardware might interfere with brass ejection. If only the FBI would show us photos of the rifle, we would know more...
Credit goes to the MrGunsGear channel on YT for pointing this out, and to Raven Geostrategic for including this in their most recently analysis report. Now that this has been pointed out, I completely agree with this assessment, and I'm showing here an AI-enhanced high resolution image of the rifle (rotated 180' from the body cam freeze frame) which now clearly makes perfect sense. This now strongly supports the "single shooter" theory, and I explain the details in the new article at this link:
https://naturalnews.com/2024-07-30-developments-in-the-trump-shooting-investigation-single-shooter.html
@HealthRanger How did a 20 yr old outwit the Secret Service, evade the LEOs, get into the venue, past through security, with a gun and a heavy looking backpack, roam the grounds around the buildings at will, and not be challenged within the 90 minute time frame when he was first noticed?
Why was Trump not kept off the podium until they found the suspect? Why were the building's roof tops and the water tower not covered with agents? Why was communications between the LEOs and Secret Service not working? Why were there no body cams on the LEOs before the shooting? I want to see the photos of the layout of the brass, the results of the fingerprints on the brass and the rifle. What about the ballistic recordings and the disparity of the time for distance calibration?
From the videos showing Crooks crawling on the roof, he was carrying his rifle on his right side. Even if he shot on his left side, why was the rifle 7+ feet away from him if he was shot through the head and supposedly died instantly?
Lastly, it was estimated the Trump's head was about 10 feet off the ground and the one of the spectators who was wounded was approximately 13 - 15 feet off the ground in the stadium right behind Trump. Looks like the wounded man was hit with what looked like an upward trajectory from the building where Crooks was lying in wait. Why were there only three bullets that hit the spectators instead of eight? Where did all the rounds fired go? Were they ever accounted for?
Questions?
@freeman_gus Yes!! and why did CNN decide to live stream THAT rally when they didn't any other ones?