re: The .30-06 conspiracy theory is the theory with the most legs.

There were some redneck gun enthusiast types in the few weeks after the shooting saying a 30.06 would have ripped his body apart. But, then that just leads to neverending debates about whether there was some weird deflection or his chest plate is strong or he was wearing body protection or whatever.

Chris Martenson linked in OP usually just comes at things from math/nerd perspective.

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Chris Martenson is out with a terrific video analysis that rebuts many of the false claims circulating on social media about who shot Charlie Kirk. Martenson proves beyond a reasonable doubt that it was not a .30-06 round that took Charlie’s life. I am posting below a video of a dummy composed of ballistic gel and a human skull that is a sickening illustration of the actual power of the .30-06. It also was not a pistol of any kind, especially the alleged palm pistol.

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You and I are just two blind squirrels grabbing their nuts. I think that’s the saying

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Im kind of surprised one of our conspiracy buffs hasnt floated this yet.

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I challenged one of them this morning with it because he was claiming that we can't know anything except what the "Deep State" allows us to know.

So my response was, "Then why are you so sure that Kirk was actually shot and killed? How do you know that wasn't an AI fake with AI advanced techniques that haven't been released to the public yet? For that matter, how do you even know Charlie Kirk actually ever existed? Did you ever meet him in person?"

It's pretty easy to show how self-refuting that nonsense is.

When it hit the vest and bounced off it lost a lot of momentum

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The projectile is probably more important. Different types for different things. Not all are meant for deep penetration.

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Come on people. 30-06 with 180 grain bullet produces about 2500 ft/lbs of energy at 100 yards. I hunt white tail in North Alabama with a 30-06. I've never shot a white tail in the chest cavity that the bullet didn't exit the chest cavity. Hit one high and in the spine. Bullet blew right thru the backbone. Shot an antelope in Montana years ago. She was quartering away and up the hill from me. Made a pinky size hole going in and pretty much took the right shoulder off. Shot a mule deer in montana as well, bullet went thru the chest cavity. Pinky size hole going in, index finger sized hole coming out. 30-06 goes thru the soft tissue of the neck like hot knife thru butter. If it hit the spine, it blew thru that as well. Bullet was coming in a downward trajectory. There looked to be a concrete wall at an angle behind Kirk. If Kirk's chair/table were on concrete, the bullet passed thru his neck hit the concrete beneath him at an angle. Ricocheted into the concrete wall behind him and then ricocheted off that and continued on. Likely in a bunch of pieces by that time. If Kirk's chair/table were on grass, then the bullet likely dug in right there.

I'm sure a 30-06 will deflect some when it hits bone, but not enough to stay in the body.

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So you know for a fact that's what he used...

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Nope. Never said that. Simply stating my experience with a 30-06. If your brain processed the information that I typed and concluded that I "know for a fact that's what he used..." you should never ever ever ever EVER ridicule someone else's intelligence again.

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Nope. Never said that.

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Its exactly what you alluded to.

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There were some redneck gun enthusiast types in the few weeks after the shooting saying a 30.06 would have ripped his body apart. But, then that just leads to neverending debates about whether there was some weird deflection or his chest plate is strong or he was wearing body protection or whatever.

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MLK was shot in the neck, with a .30-06 from a distance of 207 ft. No exit wound!

CK was shot in the neck, with a .30-06 from a distance of 427 ft. No exit wound! But somehow the latter is viewed as completely impossible.

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The murder weapon likely left the factory well over 100 years ago. It is reasonable to speculate that its "hitting power" was not the same in 2025 as it was back in 1900 or 1899 when it left the factory.

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It is not reasonable. Thats not how centerfire rifles work. A leakage that yields reduced muzzle velocity would completely destroy the rifle and injure the shooter.

Yall are focusing on the rifle which is nearly irrelevant in this discussion. All the Bubba "I've never seen a .30-06 NOT exit" comments are focused on the wrong thing as well.

Bullet construction
Impact velocity

Again, I've seen a 180gr nosler partition (elk bullet) fired from a .30-06 fail to exit a deers neck from a few feet away and from short range (180ish yards).

The neck is tremendously dense, the vertebrae in the neck are very stout, and its very easy to conceive how a full power .30-06 cartridge at that range could yield the "official" results.