The former president ducked to the floor as shots rang out and was mobbed by Secret Service agents, while the sniper, who was killed by security forces, has been named as Thomas Matthew Crooks.
5.56 and .22 have nearly identical diameters of the actual bullet. .223 vs .22.
5.56 just has a lot more gunpowder behind it.
9mm is a significantly larger bullet than a .22.
Too large, in my estimation, to make the small wound in his ear, if indeed it took a chunk out.
Im going by my best guess at a wound size via images, and its currently being reported that the shooter was outside the event perimeter, meaning the shots would have been taken from likely outside the effective range of a pistol, so, while it is still a guess, I am still going with a 5.56 rifle of some kind.
Also, in my experience, common pistol rounds barely make any report as can be heard in the audio in similar conditions (large open area).
The gunshots sound tinny and plinky because the audio was set up for a speech in a loud noisy environment, watch similar audio footage of say a reporter in a warzone and you will find distant rifle rifle sounds similar.
The shooter was only 400ft away… that’s nothing and there are 9mm rifles though I’m not concrete on 9mm, it’s just the report didn’t sound like the lords caliber.
That being said, there is an interview some British journalist did with a man who witnessed the shooter (I saw the clip on Kyle Kulinsky’s youtube, not sure the actual source of the clip), and he described him as climbing up onto a roof with a rifle.
Could it be a 9mm technically im a pistol but i looke like a rifle kind of thing? Sure.
Im sure we will find out within 48 hrs some details about the shooter’s weapon, given that his corpse is already in custody.
5.56 and .22 have nearly identical diameters of the actual bullet. .223 vs .22.
5.56 just has a lot more gunpowder behind it.
9mm is a significantly larger bullet than a .22.
Too large, in my estimation, to make the small wound in his ear, if indeed it took a chunk out.
Im going by my best guess at a wound size via images, and its currently being reported that the shooter was outside the event perimeter, meaning the shots would have been taken from likely outside the effective range of a pistol, so, while it is still a guess, I am still going with a 5.56 rifle of some kind.
Also, in my experience, common pistol rounds barely make any report as can be heard in the audio in similar conditions (large open area).
The gunshots sound tinny and plinky because the audio was set up for a speech in a loud noisy environment, watch similar audio footage of say a reporter in a warzone and you will find distant rifle rifle sounds similar.
The shooter was only 400ft away… that’s nothing and there are 9mm rifles though I’m not concrete on 9mm, it’s just the report didn’t sound like the lords caliber.
It could be a graze from basically any caliber.
That being said, there is an interview some British journalist did with a man who witnessed the shooter (I saw the clip on Kyle Kulinsky’s youtube, not sure the actual source of the clip), and he described him as climbing up onto a roof with a rifle.
Could it be a 9mm technically im a pistol but i looke like a rifle kind of thing? Sure.
Im sure we will find out within 48 hrs some details about the shooter’s weapon, given that his corpse is already in custody.