A few points of note from the acting director of the Secret Service:
-would be assassin was near the 6th green
-Trump was located in the fairway of 5th hole when Secret Service agent fired his "firearm"
-from the map (I'll post it next), the engagement distance was likely 100-150 feet
-Ryan Routh fled and didn't fire his SKS as he didn't have line of site on Trump (checks out if he was on 5th fairway)
According to what we've seen in terms of photos of the suspect - all of the Secret Service agents shots missed.
I just saw another media talking head say that a "thermal drone" wouldn't have detected Routh's heat signature in "south Florida temperatures" so I'm uploading this clip for all media outlets to download and use the next time this topic comes up.
This was filmed with a PARD Ocelot 640 (review is coming...) which likely isn't anywhere near as clear (it's also much cheaper) as what the Secret Service would buy with their $3 billion dollar budget.
In the footage:
-I'm about ~78 feet from the optic
-in the shade
-on a sunny day (visible spectrum lighting conditions in the right side photo)
-it was 92 degrees and pretty humid at the time
You can CLEARLY see me glowing in the footage. A drone likely would have been somewhat more obscured but, at an angle, that would be minimized.
Additionally, they make very inexpensive handheld monoculars that agents could use to scan woodlines and other areas that are hard for the human eye to see.
If true that's going to have pretty big economic impacts in many places across the globe...
"home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut"
https://mrgunsngear.org/4eaYJjy
#Lebanon #exploding #SolarPower #SolarEnergy #Espionage #IDF
So far this is the best image of the would be Trump assassin's SKS recovered in West Palm Beach 😎
On a serious note; how hard is it to just take a decent photo of a rifle supposedly used in a historically relevant crime?
#SKS #media #ButlerFarms #fight
If what this officer says is true about his interactions with Ryan Routh then that dude has some serious mental issues.
With that aside the officer here describes charging Routh with multiple crimes, including multiple felonies, and still no mention of a jail sentence for any of them...
"Greensboro officer believes drugs caused Routh to unravel during the late '90s"