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Video footage shows the rifle did not have a scope or a red dot sight (two different things). A scope magnifies the target. A red dot only marks the target. Regardless, the gun has to be zeroed for the shooter. The rifle was zeroed for the shooter's father.Can anyone who knows about rifles tell if his gun had a scope on it? Some people said he never used a scope, but I couldn't find that reported anywhere in the media. Looks like it does have one to me.
I saw one video where a SEAL sniper claimed that to him, the rifle did not seem to have a scope.
Red dot sights have their pros-and-cons. Specially at the distance the shooter was using it. Now I'm reading that 8 cartridges were retrieved from the site location next to the shooter. This would debunk any 'second shooter' theory since only 8 shots were fired.I never saw it reported that it had no scope. One of the gun-focused YouTube channels that dismissed the conspiracies about the whole incident being staged to make Trump popular mentioned he used a red dot optical with no magnification. That was posted in this thread. The video mocked the notion that anyone would trust even the greatest shooters in the world to just "graze the ear" on purpose with his gun and setup from that distance. It truly was an absurd CT.
We had no 'red dot' sights when I was in the Army. It was either a scope or iron sights. Most soldiers shot and qualified with iron sights. Unless you have poor eyesight, you can easily hit a target with iron sights up to 200 yards. 1 yard (36 inches) and 1 meter (39 inches) are almost the same. Qualification for stationary targets was 50, 100, 150, 200, 250 and 300 meters. We had a separate range for moving targets. All this was done with the M-16A2. Trump was shot at about 120 meters. If this was to work, Trump should have been killed by the first shot. Had Crooks used the water tower instead of the roof, he would have had better results - plus, remained hidden.
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