Bolt-action rifle used in the Charlie Kirk assassination reveals scheming planning

The guns returned to the assassination at the assassination of Charlie Kirk There was a rifle for painful action – a shared hunting weapon valued for its reliability, but limited to one shot before re-transfer.

Unlike a semi-automatic, shooter must manually manage the screw handle to start weapons: raising and pulling back and pulling the loaded insert, while pushing it to the new circle new circle. Lowering the bolt locks the chamber and seals the larger, making the rifle ready to light up – a simple, durable design that kept popular among hunters and target shooters.

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“This process limits the speed of the fire, at one point you can only take one shot,” Retired Marine, Lieutenant Colonel Hal Kempfer in an interview with Fox News Digital.

Kempfer noted that with a pale for the hospital, the consumed cartridge often remains in the larger, not to be expelled, which means that shooters do not leave behind shellfish or “brass” which investigators can use for forensics.

“It’s just one of those things you’re in, if you’ve thought, you know that you can’t leave any forensic evidence for investigators to work,” he said.

The FBI agent looks near the University of Utah in which evidence has been collected as the authorities are investigating political activists Charlie Kirk 11. September 2025. in Orem, Utah. (Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images)

Authorities told Thursday that they recovered the rifle used to assassinate at Kirk In the forest near the scene, where the investigators believe that the shooter left as he escaped to avoid law enforcement.

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“They will do a lot of work on the forensics of this weapon because these firearms have history,” he said, adding that investigators will try to seek where it was sold and changed and changed.

“It is possible that the shooter used a straw or other method to cover up his identity – but it is the kind of leg investigator, he will now have to follow the shooter,” Kempfer said.

The FBI Special Agent Robert Bohls speaks during the press conference to get an update to search for a man who killed the Charlie Kirk 11. In September 2025. In Orem, Utah. (Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images)

Kempfer, who served as an intelligence officer in the US Marine Corp, said the fatal recording is “not particularly difficult”, but takes planning.

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“You wouldn’t have to be a professional sniper or something, hunters keep taking this time,” he said, adding that distance, clear time and elevated position everything worked on the advantage of shooters.