As this is being written, the news just broke that the FBI has arrested what they believe to be Charlie Kirk's assassin.
So by the time you read this piece - which addresses some of the rumors that were filling the information gap while we waited on the dragnet to show results - it may be as out of date as a 1998 Congressional Register.
But what the heck, let's go for it.
First: The shooter just had to be a professional.
Many of the legions of instant experts in epidemiology, election law, geriatric medicine, disaster relief, climate science, the Middle East and the New York legal system that the Left spawns as the news cycle spins are now firearms experts, too.
Watched the vid of the Charlie Kirk shooter—dude was seriously professional. Don’t care who Charlie was a fan of or what he thought,he was a young guy with two little kids.
— Alice Williams (@aDemCalledAlice) September 11, 2025
But man…security these days is straight-up terrifying.#CharlieKirkdead #CharlieKirkshot #CharlieKirkdead pic.twitter.com/HYTdEaNo9P
Seems pretty alarming, if true.
And hey, the serious experts are on the scene, so jump back:
I wrote a New York Times best selling book on the Kennedy assassination. I am finishing a book on the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan and I have studied the two assassination attempts on Donald Trump.
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) September 11, 2025
Charlie Kirk was killed by a skilled shooter in a professional hit…
Now, every actual shooter risks soundimg a little like a wannabe Daniel Boone when the subject comes to marksmanship - for crying out loud, the FBI found the rifle.
This rifle killed Kirk and was found in a nearby forest. In no way did this rifle fit into the backpack this guy is carrying https://t.co/LesO0bMQpT pic.twitter.com/ZUKDn59jDu
— Milo📕🔻 (@Milo_PPW) September 12, 2025
It's a bolt-action Mauser-pattern hunting rifle. If we trust posts on X, it's got a scope.
Hitting a "center of mass" (human torso) sized target at 200 yards, from a prone position, with a properly-zeroed bolt-action rifle, from a supported position, from 200 yards, with 30.06 round (heavy and fast - so very little bullet drop to compensate for) is more a matter of basic technique (breathing, squeezing the trigger) than Chris Kyle-level expertise. It's intermediate, and that's being a little conservative.
Second: There were no way, no how any transgender engraving on the shell casings
Remember what I said above about not blindly trusting random people on X? That goes times ten with BlueSky.
Which was where this bit came from:
The ammo used was stamped “TRN” because it was manufactured by the bullet manufacture Turan.
— Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) (@SpockResists) September 12, 2025
And a MAGA saw the “TRN” stamp, and apparently thinks about trans people all day every day, and so that’s what they ran with for half a day.
It’s literally that dumb. pic.twitter.com/spjzs6yNS3
Now, TRN is cheap ammunition. It's the stuff you use for plinking at the range when you don't want to spring for the Russian-made "Wolf" stuff, that smells like male cat spray wheh you shoot it. Your mileage may vary - but the reputation for quality is not stellar. A marksman's ammunition is as important as the rifle and the scope - so if that's what the Kirk shooter used, that'd be another hit to the "Expert Marksman" theory.
But remember - it's a rando from BlueSky, the overall claim is worth looking into...
UPDATE:
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 12, 2025
- family member turned him in
- He discussed plans with roommate
- hid gun in bushes before
- bullet casings had antifa, lgbtq, and leftist messaging on them
- he was radicalized in recent years pic.twitter.com/hLr12SPvcF
...and, almost inevitably, pelting with rhetorical sacks of garbage.
I'll look forward to finally getting some real information.
