Oh yea. I'm the biggest Biden sycophant on the DR.

Thanks for continuing to prove how clueless you are.

#136 | Posted by ClownShack

LOL

It's funny that ballwasher thinks he'd be this concerned if it was Biden that had been shot at.

He'd be posting the stuff Clown is posting and Clown would be posting what ballwasher is posting.

Yeah, there was nothing like a tree branch in Crooks' line of sight, so it's hard to understand why the FBI is considering a bullet fragment as a possibility.

#120 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

There's always a possibility that they know something we don't. Something in the podium or a detail of the stage that wasn't easily seen. Something that was enough to cause fragmentation of the bullet or spalling (small pieces of material that fly off a hard subtance when impacted by a bullet).

How that would have hit his right ear, I have no idea.

JPW, you seem to know a lot about this topic, so could you answer my uninformed but honest question:

Wouldn't claim "a lot" of knowledge, merely some experience and a fair bit of study of the topic.

If it was a bullet fragment rather than a bullet, how/why did it become fragmented?

It would have had to contact something, and something rather stout, to break up. Check out the video I posted and use the scroller to find the part with the lumber test. The entry and exit holes are a clean .223 diameter hole for both 5.56 hits. It's not until you're hitting the concrete blocks or mild steel that you get fragmentation of the bullet.

Did the bullet just explode in midair without contacting anything?

Wouldn't be a viable round if it could just break up in mid air from nothing but the forces that ballistics is supposed to account for. Even an unstable flight wouldn't result in fragmentation, just tumbling.

Is that something that can happen? Or did it have to hit something in order to break/burst into fragments?

#118 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

It would have to hit something substantial at that range to fragment.

Think about a cardboard range target. The bullet pierces it and leaves a clean hole. If the round hits the outer edge of the target, it leaves a "nick". The cardboard target is only loosely secured and doesn't even MOVE.

#98 | Posted by Miranda7

I made this very point. Maybe it was on another thread.

But people seem to misunderstand how this stuff works.

One other scenario investigators are likely to explore: that the bullet, deadly but friable, might have fragmented after skimming Mr. Trump's ear.

LOL just LOL

none of us would have to endure all this uninformed drivel coming from the CVS Rambo's

#75 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses

You mean like the claim that a graze would take the entire ear off?

If a 5.56 round made contact with his ear at that range, he wouldn't have an ear ...

#68 | Posted by chuffy

I'm really tired of seeing this nonsense.

No. That's not how it works.

They hit really hard stuff and flatten out.

I've never seen a 5.56 flatten. I've seen them deform if it hits something relatively soft like soil or wood, but I've only ever seen them fragment (I never said disintegrate) when hitting harder surfaces like concrete or rock. Likewise, I've never seen them behave that way in a video.

Especially at the relatively short distance the shots were taken from.