On YouTube firearms knowledgeable people have succeed in replication the supposed shot type that killed Kirk using a 30-06 round, fired against a ballistic dummy wearing level III plate armour. The ricochet does occur, and a neck strike is possible. But here is the problem: it seems Kirk was not wearing body armour at the time, as confirmed by Candice Owen's investigation. Chris Martenson concludes that there was a second shooter who got away. Here is his account, with more in the linked video. The controversy continues:
Charlie Kirk was shot with a high-velocity rifle round that lodged in his body. However, that shot could not have been taken from Tyler Robinson's. The Charlie Kirk shooting was traumatic, and the country will never be the same afterward. We deserve to know what happened. Accordingly, I have fired up another Citizens' Investigation to see what we can uncover in our pursuit of truth.
After conducting extensive analysis of available information, I have a high degree of confidence in the following:
Tyler Robinson did not take the kill shot from the Losee Center sniper position we've all been led to believe was 'the spot.'
The bullet that struck Charlie was a high-velocity rifle round, which did, indeed, stay in his body.
That kill shot had to have been taken from a location offering both a steeper angle into his body and a higher off-axis angle.
We can say these things after reviewing a critical video released on September 24th, which fortuitously captured the overpressure moment in Charlie's neck and upper torso during one of the video frames.
The only possible way for that bullet to have struck Charlie's neck in such a fashion as to ricochet downward further into his body was for it to have hit his neck at a much steeper downward angle and a much higher off-axis angle.
With medium confidence, we can begin to point to some other possible sniping locations. However, until (and unless) we get more definitive information about the (allegedly) recovered bullet and its initial path into Charlie's body, we cannot do more than point to the entire roofline of the adjacent Sorensen Center building as the most logical and obvious sniper location.
Further, we can rule out palm pistols, phone guns, and exploding mics from the available evidence we now have. None of those could have caused the severe overpressure and near instant death ("pugilist pose") and heart stoppage (no carotid spurting, only jugular drainage) that we all saw.
That combination of observed effects can only have been caused by a very sudden and large event, such as a high-velocity rifle round with its thousands of ft/lbs of energy.
As the old saying goes, do you know what a person who's been shot by a pistol does next? Whatever they were doing before they were shot. That's because pistol rounds basically make a hole through a body. Unless they hit the brain, heart, or spinal column directly all they can do is punch a hole and cause blood to begin leaking out.
Rifle rounds are different because they are traveling at supersonic speeds and much of their damage is caused by the enormous cavitation bubbles they create within the first ~1 foot of body impact. In this episode, I cover all of this and bring the receipts so everybody can understand what rifle rounds do.
One thing they do not do is deflect easily and head off in new direction. At least not appreciably over the ~5-6 inches of soft neck width that would have been in play for a shot taken by Tyler Robinson from his putative sniper position on the Losee Center Building.
Sure, if you hit something like a branch or a twig, a rifle round may deflect off of a target dozens or even hundreds of yards downrange.
But over a few inches? No way. The question becomes, what force would be required to convert a 10-degree downsloping round trajectory into a 45-degree angle to penetrate his body and remain lodged there? To deflect a bullet meaningfully over such a short range, physics apply. Invoking Newton, for every force there's an equal and opposite force. To deflect a bullet with ~2,000 ft/lbs of energy would require just over 12,000 pounds-force; not something a human neck and head can provide.
Even the wimpiest consumer .30-06 round will be carrying nearly 2,000 ft/lbs of energy at 140 yards and traveling in a very straight line.
Which is exactly what it's going to continue doing unless acted upon by a structure capable of meeting some or all of the force.
A neck struck off to the side, where Charlie's was struck, is nothing but soft tissue. It's ridiculous to propose that the bullet magically deflected off of that soft tissue, in just an inch or two, so that it could bend down into his chest cavity at a much steeper angle.
To suggest that is to suggest that sometimes buildings just fall at free-fall speed due to office fires. They don't, and bullets do not suddenly veer off in new directions when they are carrying the majority of their muzzle energy after encountering soft, bone-free tissue.
Finally, we dispense with the idea that Charlie was wearing body armor. He wasn't, and that's easily proven from existing photos from the event. Even a compression t-shirt arrangement would have left visible lines under his thin-material t-shirt. None can be seen from any angle.
I hereby call upon law enforcement authorities to release the full and unedited videos from all buildings and angles from that day, and for TPUSA to release the recordings from the cameras and microphones that were on or right beside the stage that day.