We at D-J want to express our gratitude that President Trump is OK and will continue to forge forward and become our next president. We also hold in our prayers and thoughts that God comfort the family of the heroic lost loved one killed by the shooter. As well as rapid healing for those injured.
Most of our staff are firearms experts. They are obviously vexed at how the situation was allowed to transpire–many thinking that it was ‘an inside job.’ In many ways it shares common characteristics to the Kennedy Assassination. Average rifle, mediocre shooter (if the shooter is the one who actually did it), low to medium range shot from (deliberately) unsecured location. The only difference is for the Kennedy Assassination, Kennedy was in relatively hostile territory; Rural Pennsylvania is Trump country (as is most of the thinking portions of America today).
Some of them were dismayed by pundits going on the news / online thinking the shot was easy, a chip shot, or a ‘gimme.’ Not so. To quote one of our senior staff:
“I’m pretty damn tired of these so-called ‘experts’ pontificating that the shot was easy for any medium-trained shooter. It wasn’t. First off, while DPMS makes a decent rifle, most of the barrels of the guns I’ve shot have NOT been sub-MOA–meaning less than one inch at a hundred yards, two inches at 200 yards, and so forth. So within the rifle itself at 150 yards there’s 1.5” of inherent ballistic error you really can’t do anything about. It’s POSSIBLE the gun was rebarreled with a more precise upper but unlikely. Secondly, most ARs have ammo they like and they don’t. 5.56 rounds shoot less accurately in most of the AR’s we have than .223; I’ve found sub-MOA performance in my DDM4V5 which has an excellent barrel coupled with Speer Gold Dot 64 grain. It’ll shoot dimes at 100 yards with a proper rest. But this took alot of trial and error to find. FWIW, off-topic, the .223 Wylde barrel is a decent compromise for guns which are shot with both 5.56 and .223; a bit less accurate with .223 and more accurate with 5.56. Some of the 5.56 ammo I’ve shot even in good barrels has atrocious accuracy; on the order of 3 MOA+. So the gun and ammo combination has to be hashed out and is important.
Secondly, there was around 10mph of wind at the time. Winds in PA are usually gusty and vary due to terrain and obstructions (trees, buildings, etc.). I usually use 1 MOA/10mph/100yards with a .223 and it works OK. Meaning that during the environmental conditions there was around 1.5″ of additional wind ambiguity in cross drift. Net total inherent inaccuracy–even with a 1 MOA barrel with is optimistic for an ‘average’ AR–is around 3″ for a cold barrel first shot. Now it’s possible the shooter allowed for wind drift but that’s still a couple inches at range assuming that he’s got a 1 MOA Ammo and gun combination. Something that would take experimentation to find out.
Third, this is a guy who just climbed onto a roof and maneuvered around; taking a relatively quick shot. No idea what kind of rest he might have had to make the shot but it had to be something hasty and improvised. And under a high pressure situation. The adrenalin flow from the situation for an average person as well as the physical exertion of just having scaled a hot roof makes for HUGE additional difficulty for the shot. When hunting, I often can see my pulse going through the scope on whatever rest I’ve managed to improvise. For the shooter’s perspective given the gravity of the situation it would have been a hundred times worse.
Lastly, the shooter’s target was moving–when people talk their heads move around. Alot. That’s why most shooters are taught to shoot upper-center of mass (which is often countered by body armor) during active engagements. In fact this movement (and maybe an act for divine providence) resulted in a very close miss for what was a kill shot when taken.
Hunters do make these shots on game frequently; most of the groundhogs I’ve taken are within the range the shooter had. And we routinely shoot 3″ wide jars of tannerite at 100 yards. But I see errors on the order of 1MOA or more with most of my ARs; and I’ve done ALOT of shooting.
What this means to me–given the situation–is that the shooter WAS trained and it was an inside job. No other way to account for all the security lapses and counter-sniper orders. It’s POSSIBLE that it could have been gross buffoonery on the part of the secret service, but given the LE I know there’s no way so many people could have been so inept. On the other hand, procedural placement of agents, ROE for engagement, and intentional close-hold clearance to engage delays IS within the likelihood of probability. So to me it’s possible this could have been a series of buffoonish blunders, but very unlikely knowing the quality of most of the agents. I think the shooter was recruited, and this was the last attempt of the deep state to quiet Donald Trump. Thank God it failed.”
We think he’s spot on and that supervising a REAL investigation is beyond the capabilities of a corrupt DOJ and regime (who might have been in on it). And sincerely hope that there is (real) congressional oversight as well as answers demanded by the American people.
We give Mr. Trump kudos for great courage under fire and believe all rational individuals in our nation see him as the strong leader he’s always been.
We offer our prayers and condolences to the families and those harmed–heroes and casualties in the ever going battle against communism–and believe the nation looks forward to a Trump Presidency !
Diatomaceous-Johnson 