Unanswered Questions Surround Charlie Kirk Investigation

Weapons experts, political insiders, and investigators raise concerns about official narrative

The assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has generated significant scrutiny from weapons experts and political observers who claim numerous inconsistencies plague the official investigation. While authorities maintain their account of events, military specialists and political sources are raising questions that demand closer examination.

Weapons Analysis Raises Red Flags

Retired Green Beret and weapons specialist Mike Glover has publicly challenged key aspects of the official narrative regarding the rifle allegedly used in the shooting. Glover, who served over 18 years in special forces with extensive firearms expertise, points to several technical impossibilities in the FBI's account.

The central issue involves the transportation and concealment of a .30-06 rifle. According to Glover's analysis, such a weapon cannot be broken down sufficiently to conceal the barrel, which measures approximately 44 inches. Security footage showing Kirk walking down stairs reveals him bending both knees normally, contradicting claims that the rifle barrel was hidden in his leg.

"Where would you conceal it?" Glover asks in his technical breakdown. The expert notes that even if the weapon were disassembled, reassembling it on-site would require recalibration—a process that typically involves multiple test shots to ensure accuracy.

Additional weapons experts have echoed these concerns, with some noting that carrying a rifle in pieces and reassembling it fundamentally changes the weapon's zero point, potentially affecting accuracy significantly.

Investigative Anomalies

Several aspects of the investigation have drawn criticism from observers:

Footage Quality and Selection: Despite numerous security cameras in the area, authorities released only low-resolution screenshots during the manhunt, many of which obscure the suspect's face or show him turned away from cameras.

Timeline Inconsistencies: The official narrative suggests the suspect drove to campus, changed clothes, shot Kirk, escaped without the weapon, changed clothes again, drove 250 miles home, confessed to his father, then turned himself in—only to later plead not guilty.

Missing Evidence: No bullet has been recovered from the scene, despite the close-range nature of the shooting. Ballistics experts note this is unusual for such circumstances.

Escape Route Questions: Video of the suspect jumping from the roof shows no visible weapon, leading to questions about when and where the rifle was disposed of.

Political Context and Allegations

Perhaps more concerning are emerging claims about Kirk's recent political positioning. Multiple sources suggest the conservative leader had been experiencing pressure from pro-Israel organizations in the months leading up to his death.

According to investigative journalist Max Blumenthal, writing for The Grayzone, Kirk had reportedly refused a funding offer from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had grown increasingly critical of Israeli military actions. The report, citing a longtime friend of Kirk, claims the Turning Point founder had come to view Netanyahu as "a bully" seeking to drag America into foreign conflicts.

These allegations gain additional weight from InfoWars host Harrison Smith, who claims an independent source corroborated similar information about Kirk facing backlash for his evolving stance on Middle East policy.

The political implications extend further, with claims that Kirk had recently hosted speakers critical of Israeli policy at Turning Point events, including Tucker Carlson and Dave Smith, leading to friction with major donors.

Institutional Responses

The aftermath has revealed additional concerning patterns. Ben Shapiro has reportedly assumed control of Turning Point USA operations, marking a significant shift in the organization's leadership structure.

Multiple educators and public figures have faced termination for celebrating Kirk's death on social media, suggesting many believed their views would be widely accepted—pointing to what some analysts describe as extreme polarization in certain communities.

Corporate entities have also faced backlash, with video game company Bethesda deleting social media content that appeared to mock the assassination after public criticism.

Broader Security Concerns

Separate allegations have emerged regarding security breaches involving electronic surveillance devices allegedly discovered in official vehicles during Netanyahu's recent visits to the United States. While these claims remain unverified, they add to growing concerns about foreign influence operations on American soil.

The claims, if accurate, would represent significant security breaches at the highest levels of government and could explain reported anxiety within political circles.

This analysis is based on publicly available information and expert commentary. Readers are encouraged to examine primary sources and await official investigations before drawing conclusions.

"...approximately 44 inches."

I assume that is a typo, because the barrel is 24 inches long. However it cannot be separated from the action, which increases it's length to at least 30". The stock is also a single piece of wood, approximately 30" long. These are also not simply thin tubes, the stock being no less than 2" thick and the butt ~6" wide, while the action and scope are ~6" wide as well.

Glover is correct that after disassembling the rifle you would have to sight it in again, and there was clearly no opportunity to do that on the roof. If that was Tyler jumping off the roof on video, he wasn't carrying the rifle, broken down or not. The thing about repeatedly changing clothes strikes me as useless as a security measure, but that narrative could cover for other people involved, and that was my first thought when I heard he'd changed clothes repeatedly.

Thanks for an excellent report!

Edit: I hadn't realized you had made a video but had only linked it here, glossing over the opening of the OP I guess. My bad. Watching the video now, and it is far more wide-ranging and substantive than the text above in the OP. At 1:24:45 you ask what something is, and I think it's an automatic beacon for boaters that you attach to a keyring and it prevents your keys from sinking while flashing a red light so that you can locate them if you are not safely boating with keys in pocket, or to hand. If your boat capsizes or something happens that puts you in the water, this both alerts rescuers to your approximate location in the darkness and reduces the hassles of recovery from the disaster you've survived. Imagine being rescued by the Coast Guard after your boat sinks, and you don't have keys to your vehicles, home, workplaces, and etc. This was to solve that problem (I think), and enable the Coast Guard to locate you at night in rough seas.

It sucks to drop keys in the ocean. I've done it, and it was actually transformative to my life at the time, as the keys I lost were to my father's boat, and that ended my use of any vehicles of any kind he owned for the rest of my life, as it should. I was a horrible child (or, rather, horribly missparented). The first time I ever drove at 12 I snatched my mother's keys while we were visiting a friend of hers and ran outside to start the car when we were leaving, and (since it was a manual transmission in gear while parked to keep it from rolling on a slope) I smashed into some garbage cans and was humiliated. Instead of teaching me how to drive, my father kept me away from vehicles as best he could, so I would steal his every chance I got, once using his Honda XL 75 motorcycle to (try to) jump his 1964 Dodge Power Wagon Pickup, and wrecking both of them (and my knees and elbows) instead. This is basically why I lost my father's boat keys, because I was out buzzing the Ferry and drinking with some buddies in his boat while he was out of town.

Coincidentally, this is why I homeschooled my kids, and enabled them to buy their own vehicles at an early age. I taught them to use and gave them access to every tool I could, because I knew what might happen if I didn't, including the log loader that came with the property I raised them on. I realized the things he taught me to use - only firearms for hunting - and enabled me to own myself, like the Remington .22/.250 with a shortened buttstock so I could properly shoulder it prior to puberty, were the only things I didn't just steal to gain access to and learn to use myself. Because my kids purchased, with wages they earned doing hard construction labor, their 4x4's they drove on the cat trails on my acreage, and had to repair them themselves when they wrecked them at 10mph, from the age of ~10, when they turned 18 I knew they were quite risk avoidant while driving (and had learned all the ways they could crash), and I had little fear they'd do all the stupid shit that gets teenagers killed when they learn how to drive at 16 and borrow their parents cars. I was familiar with all that stupid shit because I somehow survived doing it, and knew how handling the expenses it caused created a strong disincentive to do stupid shit (even if you survived it) because my dad wouldn't let me get a license before I turned 18 whereupon I bought my own car and learned not to do all that stupid shit by doing it at my own expense.

Had I had that little beacon keyring when I was a 15 year old miscreant, my life might have turned out very differently.

The speaker thing is for Drive-ins. Outdoor movie theaters needed to provide audio to each vehicle in the drive-in, so at each parking space there was such a speaker mounted on a post. They used similar speakers with microphones so you could order at Carhop restaurants like A&W, where a pretty girl on roller skate would deliver your order on a tray that hooked to your car door with the window rolled down.

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