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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldtoguns@lemmy.world•Ballistic Analysis of Kirk Shooting: Perspective of a USMC Scout Sniper + More
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    1 day ago

    Interesting video, but seems very conspiracy-oriented.

    I’d like to make an observation though…

    What if the bullet was a 30-06, but the cartridge was not performing optimally, either intentionally de-rated to reduce the chance of overpenetrating the target, or unintentionally degraded due to a problem with the round?

    The shooter (if you believe the FBI text messages) said he used his grandfather’s rifle. A rifle which was unlikely to be noticed as missing, which to me says “not used that often”. So I suspect the cartridge had degraded. I’d say that this explains the neck shot… The round was traveling slower and fell a few extra inches from the intended headshot.

    This would also explain why the time from the flash in the video (which could be any number of things really) to time of impact indicates a range of 200 yards, when the shooter was more like 157yards away (last I saw this was the distance, not sure if it is correct). This also explains why the round didn’t “blow his head completely off” as at least one other “gun expert” has told me it would do.

    Things to still be considered… Where did the round ultimately end up? Even with a lower power cartridge, I’d expect the 30-06 to go all the way through a human neck. Maybe it hit the spine, but I doubt that would have stopped it. As far as I’m aware, they have not recovered the bullet that hit Charlie.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.works•EducationEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I wish I was an engineer, but I have read a few mechanical engineering books with chapters on gears, and it really is a bottomless pit.

    In the example, I recall seeing a method a ways back where 3 interlaced gears could rotate simultaneously. Two are linked traditionally, while one is a helical gear that slides though the teeth of the other two. It had a slick animation, wish I could find it.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Megathread: Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University EventEnglish
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    7 days ago

    That’s a complete fabrication.

    First of all, I was unable to find a source showing that Charlie was wearing body armor.

    Second, body armor is not made out of steel plate for exactly this reason. Body armor is usually ceramic plates that are designed to dissipate kinetic energy by fragmenting, covering in a plastic or polymer jacket to catch and slow down any fragments, and then it’s usually in a kevlar (or other strong filament) carrier to further catch fragments.

    If a round had hit his chest, and then ricochetted up into his neck, then there would be very obvious evidence of this. His shirt would have a decent entry hole, plus a big debris pattern of lead and jacketing material from where the round hit the steel plate. There would be a much larger and more ragged exit hole, more likely multiple, since bullet would have flattened and fragmented on impact with the steel plate. There would be a lot of smaller wound in his neck from the bullet fragments, instead, we get one clean hole.

    To sum it up, he wasn’t wearing any armor. Even if he was, body armor is made to catch bullets, not deflect them into your neck. And if that did occur, then there would be multiple obvious signs that it did happen that way.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldtoWitches VS Patriarchy@lemmy.ca•Girls, stop enticing menEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Boys also aren’t allowed to wear bikinis, and their swimsuits are (usually) shorts already.

    No white Tees is BS though.

    However, without context, I would hazard a guess that the summer camp has a religious affiliation (most do). My YMCA affiliated summer camp required that all campers attend chapel on Sunday. I “learned” the “hard way” that not participating at chapel was “punished” by being sent to the cafeteria to play games and eat extra breakfast with the non-christian staffers.