• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    4 months ago

    For someone who previously couldn’t hit the backstop at a range, he came surprisingly close.

    Yeah, yeah, I know, NY Post, but they broke this one:

    https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/would-be-trump-assassin-tried-to-join-high-school-shooting-club-was-rejected-for-being-comically-bad-shot/

    "The team at Bethel Park shoots Anschutz single-shot rifles with peep sights and .22-caliber ammunition, Jameson Murphy and another former student explained.

    The shooting range at the school is 50 feet long by 21 feet wide, with seven ranges.

    Crooks once fired from the seventh lane — the closest to the right wall — and hit the left wall, completely missing every target on the back wall. He missed his target by close to 20 feet, Murphy recalled.

    “He tried out … and was such a comically bad shot, he was unable to make the team and left after the first day,” Murphy said."

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      4 months ago

      I’m suspicious about how it’s even possible to be that bad of a shot. The muzzle would have to be pointed way to the side, in which case the range safety officer should have tore him a new asshole.