09-18-2024, 01:31 AM
The shooter didn’t have an AK-47. He had an SKS. AK-47s can be set to fully automatic, come with a 30 round magazine and are classed as illegal assault rifles.
The SKS is a semi-automatic, isn’t an assault rifle and is legal - unless you’re a felon. Routh had fitted an illegal 30 round magazine.
He had also fitted a scope. The SKS is not intended to have a scope and doesn’t have the required fittings. It’s unlikely that the scope on Routh’s SKS could have been zeroed accurately.
Routh’s firing position was at least 300m and probably more like 500m from where the golfers would have been if they had been allowed to continue. The chances of Routh hitting any of the golfers would have been very low.
That doesn’t mean that Routh wasn’t planning on assassinating the former POTUS. It just means that he had little change of success.
The SKS is a semi-automatic, isn’t an assault rifle and is legal - unless you’re a felon. Routh had fitted an illegal 30 round magazine.
He had also fitted a scope. The SKS is not intended to have a scope and doesn’t have the required fittings. It’s unlikely that the scope on Routh’s SKS could have been zeroed accurately.
Routh’s firing position was at least 300m and probably more like 500m from where the golfers would have been if they had been allowed to continue. The chances of Routh hitting any of the golfers would have been very low.
That doesn’t mean that Routh wasn’t planning on assassinating the former POTUS. It just means that he had little change of success.
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