Are They LYING About The Bullet That Killed Charlie Kirk? (Testing The 30-06)

[00:00] What's going on everybody? Welcome back.

[00:02] Thank you for watching. Today we are

[00:03] going to be discussing a couple more

[00:05] theories surrounding the Charlie Kirk

[00:07] assassination. Now, I already gave my

[00:09] initial response in a previous video. I

[00:11] will link that here if you want to watch

[00:12] it. Um, senseless, pointless, and took a

[00:15] good guy away from his wife and kids.

[00:16] That's basically my opinion on it. Now,

[00:19] as expected with any high-profile

[00:21] tragedy like this, there are no shortage

[00:24] of conspiracy theories on the internet

[00:26] right now. So today we are going to be

[00:28] discussing the controversy surrounding

[00:30] the ballistics of the 30 6. So there are

[00:34] thousands of people out there right now

[00:35] including very popular creators with

[00:37] large followings who are convinced that

[00:39] the damage sustained from this shot was

[00:41] not consistent with a 300 6. They think

[00:44] it should have been way more severe. I'm

[00:46] not here to say yes or no. I just

[00:47] thought we would test the caliber for

[00:49] ourselves and find out in real time how

[00:52] much damage a 300 6 actually does. Now,

[00:54] before we get started, one thing I want

[00:56] to say is it recently came out that the

[00:58] bullet did not have an exit hole. The

[01:01] doctor said he found it just beneath the

[01:02] skin. A 30 six to the neck with no exit

[01:06] wound. That is very unlikely. Some would

[01:09] even say impossible. Um, I'm not going

[01:11] to say anything's impossible because we

[01:13] all know bullets do weird things. But

[01:14] obviously, no one believed it. Everyone

[01:16] freaked out. And the way they released

[01:19] the story, they made it sound like the

[01:20] bullet went into his neck and then

[01:22] stopped in like 2 or 3 inches of flesh,

[01:24] which I would go ahead and probably say

[01:26] that is impossible. But since then, I

[01:28] have heard the theory that because of

[01:30] the trajectory the bullet was fired

[01:31] from, it curved downward and went into

[01:34] his back. And that would make a lot more

[01:36] sense. How many times have we shot

[01:38] fleshy targets and seen bullets take 90°

[01:41] turns and exit out the side? Especially

[01:43] rifle rounds. It is pretty common to see

[01:45] that happen. So, on my way here, I

[01:47] watched Mr. Guns & Gear's latest video.

[01:49] I highly recommend everybody go and

[01:51] watch that. He has a ton of experience

[01:52] and he broke it down very well. Gave it

[01:55] a low percentage chance, but not zero.

[01:57] And again, anyone that shoots a lot will

[02:00] tell you bullets are very unpredictable.

[02:02] So, there's also people speculating on a

[02:04] body armor ricochet, which would make

[02:06] sense if there was no exit hole because

[02:07] obviously a bullet hitting something

[02:09] like that would dramatically affect

[02:10] performance. The reason I do not believe

[02:13] this is true is because there's a ton of

[02:15] pictures of him right before the event

[02:16] started. And you can clearly see his

[02:18] chest through his t-shirt. And a lot of

[02:20] them you can even see his nipples, which

[02:21] is kind of a dead giveaway that he's not

[02:24] wearing armor and certainly isn't

[02:25] wearing rifle plates, which is what it

[02:27] would take to stop a 30 six. Another one

[02:30] that's out there, there's a lot of

[02:32] theories on this if you can't tell, um,

[02:34] is that the footage we all saw was

[02:35] actually the exit hole and he was shot

[02:37] from behind. I would say this is

[02:39] plausible, definitely possible. I can't

[02:41] say for sure, yes or no, because we

[02:43] don't have like real high-speed footage,

[02:45] but again, the doctor said there was no

[02:47] exit hole and they recovered the bullet

[02:49] just beneath his skin. So, why would

[02:51] they lie about that? I really don't

[02:53] know. So, with everything we just

[02:54] discussed, I completely understand why

[02:56] people are coming up with all these

[02:57] alternative theories. This happens every

[02:59] time there's a high-profile tragedy like

[03:01] this, and it seems like we're lied to on

[03:03] just about everything. So, it's kind of

[03:05] hard to blame people who aren't

[03:06] believing the official narrative. What I

[03:09] will say is personally when I first saw

[03:12] the horrible video of Charlie's

[03:13] assassination, the very first words out

[03:15] of my mouth were that was a 30 caliber

[03:18] rifle. The sound, the crack, the recoil

[03:22] of his body and instant incapacitation.

[03:24] It just looked like a 30 caliber impact

[03:26] to me. Obviously 306 wasn't the round

[03:29] that came to mind because this is the

[03:30] 21st century, but I definitely thought

[03:32] it was a 308 or something like that.

[03:34] That was a very gnarly bullet impact.

[03:37] And then they came out and said that the

[03:39] bullet stopped in his neck and I don't

[03:41] know what to believe anymore. So today

[03:43] we're going to do a couple different

[03:44] tests. First we're going to test the

[03:45] damage of the 300 6 and see if it's

[03:47] consistent with the wound he sustained.

[03:50] Then we're going to test the penetration

[03:52] or lack thereof and see if it's possible

[03:54] for a meat and bone target to stop a

[03:57] rifle caliber like this. Let's get

[03:59] started. Okay, so like I said, one of

[04:01] the big theories I'm seeing online is

[04:03] people are not buying the damage

[04:05] sustained to be consistent with that of

[04:07] a 300 6. And there's a couple things you

[04:09] have to understand when a bullet travels

[04:11] through a target, especially a high

[04:13] velocity rifle round like 300 6. There's

[04:16] basically two things happening

[04:18] simultaneously. First, you have the

[04:19] permanent wound cavity, which is the

[04:21] damage caused by the actual bullet

[04:23] itself. Then, you have the temporary

[04:25] wound cavity, which is caused by the

[04:27] velocity, the impact, and the energy

[04:29] transfer of the round. It's like a shock

[04:31] wave of energy traveling through the

[04:33] target that only lasts a second. It's

[04:35] really only visible in ballistic shell

[04:37] on high-speed cameras, but it basically

[04:39] just looks like a big bubble expanding

[04:41] inside the target. And this is why

[04:43] targets like watermelons for instance

[04:45] basically turn into vapor when we shoot

[04:47] them with rifles. But animals and humans

[04:50] with a lot more weight, mass, tissue,

[04:52] etc. are going to do a much better job

[04:55] at containing that energy. So internally

[04:57] there could be a massive area affected

[04:59] by the bullet while externally you only

[05:02] see a tiny little hole. Hopefully this

[05:05] kind of clarifies it for the people that

[05:06] thought the damage should have been far

[05:08] more catastrophic. That's typically not

[05:10] how it works when people get shot. So,

[05:13] today we're going to shoot a few

[05:14] different targets with the 300 6 and

[05:17] find out for ourselves how much damage

[05:19] this rifle round actually does. All

[05:21] right, guys. The first target we're

[05:22] going to shoot with the 300 6 is a 10%

[05:25] clear ballistics gel block. I'm hoping

[05:27] that this will show us both the

[05:29] permanent and temporary wound cavity so

[05:31] we can see the difference. I've also got

[05:32] some water jugs behind it and kind of

[05:35] scattered off to the side just in case

[05:36] the bullet passes all the way through or

[05:38] takes a sharp turn in the gel. This

[05:40] should also probably show us how

[05:41] unpredictable high velocity rifle rounds

[05:44] can be. Now, I was going to start with a

[05:45] watermelon just to show you how crazy

[05:47] those are, but we literally just shot

[05:49] one in our last Charlie Kirk video with

[05:50] a 308 at 142 yards, which is the exact

[05:54] distance he was shot from. So, I'll

[05:56] probably just play that video now and

[05:58] you can see how dramatic it was.

[06:04] smoked the watermelon. So again, I think

[06:07] videos like that have kind of given

[06:08] people the wrong impression, and if

[06:10] they're inexperienced, they think that's

[06:11] what bullets do in real life. And

[06:13] obviously, that's not the case. I'm

[06:14] hoping this will help prove that point

[06:16] as well. All right, guys. The rifle

[06:17] we're using is the 1903 Springfield 3006

[06:21] from BFF Firearms. We've got our 150

[06:24] grain full metal jacket. Probably the

[06:26] most common 300 6 ammo there is. The

[06:29] problem is we don't know what kind of

[06:31] ammo this guy used. They typically don't

[06:33] go with super high-tech rounds. So, this

[06:36] is a pretty good guess, but we just

[06:38] don't know for sure.

[06:41] Let's see what this one does. Going to

[06:43] try to put it right in the middle of our

[06:45] gel block.

[06:50] [laughter]

[06:55] Okay. Well, that was actually more

[06:58] dramatic than I thought it would be. Our

[06:59] ballistic shell got yeetated off the

[07:01] table. And it looks like we have a hole

[07:02] in our 5gallon water jack. So hopefully

[07:05] we captured that bullet.

[07:20] Okay, I tried to clean off the ballistic

[07:22] shell block since it fell under the

[07:23] ground after it was shot. You can

[07:24] definitely see the temporary wound

[07:26] cavity on the high-speed footage. So,

[07:28] I'll play that for you guys. And that

[07:31] is the permanent wound cavity inside the

[07:34] ballistic shell block. So, that's the

[07:36] actual damage that the bullet did inside

[07:39] the ballistic shell. And even for a

[07:41] rifle round, that is a massive wound

[07:44] cavity in a ballistic shell block. I've

[07:46] got to say, this thing outperformed what

[07:48] I thought it would do. You can see for

[07:50] the first I don't know 6 or 7 in it's

[07:52] just a very small hole where the bullet

[07:55] is penetrating and then about halfway

[07:56] through it started dumping most of its

[08:00] energy in that ballistic shell block. We

[08:02] have one bullet fragment that I see

[08:05] right there probably 2 in from the end

[08:07] of the ballistic shell and [snorts] it

[08:10] did curve down. The block is flipped you

[08:13] know compared to what it was when we

[08:15] shot it. So, the bullet curved down,

[08:17] exited out towards the bottom, and it

[08:19] did enter our 5gallon water jug. And

[08:23] there it is right there. And that is our

[08:26] 300 6 that I just pulled out of the

[08:28] 5gallon water jug. I've got to say,

[08:29] that's in surprisingly good condition

[08:32] for passing through 16 in of ballistics

[08:34] gel and going into our 5gallon water

[08:37] jug. It is flattened out a little bit,

[08:39] but other than that, it looks pretty

[08:41] much perfect. So clearly that bullet was

[08:45] going crazy inside that ballistics gel

[08:47] block. However, one thing I do want to

[08:49] say is it did not penetrate as far as I

[08:51] thought it would. It looked like it

[08:53] barely exited the gel and just made it

[08:55] into our water jug. It stopped like an

[08:57] inch into that water jug. And you can

[08:58] see on the high-speed footage, it did

[09:00] not, you know, go halfway in and then

[09:02] fall back down towards the front. It

[09:04] stopped as soon as it hit the water. So

[09:06] it wasn't going to penetrate much

[09:08] further than a 16-in ballistics gel

[09:10] block. And that is one thing people

[09:12] often confuse with rifle rounds. They

[09:14] think because they're go in a lot faster

[09:17] that they're going to penetrate further.

[09:19] But typically rifle rounds do, you know,

[09:22] penetrate less because they just go so

[09:24] crazy when they hit the target. And

[09:25] that's the temporary wound cavity we

[09:27] were talking about. So that being said,

[09:29] 30 caliber rifle rounds still usually

[09:31] penetrate quite a bit. Um, but again,

[09:34] bullets do weird stuff. And as you saw,

[09:36] that one did take a pretty sharp turn

[09:38] downward right before it entered the

[09:40] 5gallon water jack. So now, my initial

[09:42] theory when this first happened was that

[09:44] the bullet probably just zipped right

[09:45] through, left a little pinhole, and

[09:47] because the neck is so thin, it didn't

[09:49] even slow the bullet down. So most of

[09:51] its energy was not dumped into the

[09:53] target. Then they came out and said that

[09:55] he actually stopped the bullet. And I'm

[09:56] hearing that it probably curved down and

[09:58] they found it in his back. There's

[10:00] really no way to prove or debunk this

[10:03] theory. Even if we came out here and

[10:06] recreated this test exactly, which is

[10:08] obviously not possible to do, we could

[10:10] get 10 different results shooting the

[10:12] exact same caliber and the exact same

[10:13] target. That is how unpredictable rifle

[10:16] rounds are. But for the people saying

[10:18] that the damage would have been way more

[10:20] catastrophic, I've even heard people say

[10:22] it should have decapitated him and all

[10:24] this crazy nonsense, that is just not

[10:26] how bullets work in real life. And I'm

[10:28] trying to be respectful to Charlie and

[10:29] his family while still addressing some

[10:30] of these theories. And I really don't

[10:32] care one way or the other. I'm open to

[10:33] all possibilities, but in my opinion,

[10:36] the damage sustained could be consistent

[10:38] with the 300 6. Now, the exit hole

[10:41] thing, that's a different story. I'm a

[10:42] little more reluctant to believe that,

[10:44] but if we're just looking at the damage,

[10:45] the 300 6 does sound plausible. All

[10:48] right, guys. Next up, we are going to do

[10:50] something a little more interesting.

[10:51] Now, like I said in this entire series,

[10:53] I'm not using ballistic dummies just out

[10:55] of respect. But for our final test, we

[10:58] are going to use real meat and bone. So,

[11:01] I haven't done this in quite a while

[11:03] because it's honestly kind of gross. I

[11:04] don't know if you can see, but there are

[11:06] bees all over this thing. And it looks

[11:09] like they're just jacking chunks of meat

[11:11] off the surface with their mouth, which

[11:13] I've never seen that before. I didn't

[11:15] think bees would be the problem out

[11:17] here. So, hopefully I don't get stung.

[11:19] Either way, we have two pork shoulders.

[11:21] Each of them are about 4 in thick.

[11:23] Hopefully, you can see they do have

[11:24] bones.

[11:26] running right through them as well. And

[11:28] then in between the pork shoulders, I

[11:30] have a beef femur bone, which I've got

[11:33] to imagine is thicker and harder than a

[11:36] human spinal cord, which is what they're

[11:38] claiming stopped the 30 six in this

[11:40] case. Now, I do want to say that meat

[11:42] like this is different than real living

[11:44] tissue. It's not going to give us an

[11:45] identical result, but it's got to be the

[11:48] next best thing. And I've even got that

[11:49] femur bone lined up right in the middle.

[11:51] So hopefully the bullet goes straight

[11:53] through all of it and we can see if it's

[11:55] actually possible to stop a 300 6 in and

[11:58] a target like this. I don't think it is,

[12:00] but I'm hoping that we can prove me

[12:02] wrong. Let's do it. All right, same

[12:03] bullet, 150 grain 306. And again, we

[12:06] really just don't know what kind of ammo

[12:08] was used. If it was a, you know, hollow

[12:10] point or a really lightweight soft point

[12:12] or something like that, that would

[12:13] dramatically increase the chances of the

[12:15] bullet staying in the target. But since

[12:17] they're not telling us anything, there's

[12:19] really no way to know. And I would say

[12:22] each one of those pork shoulders is

[12:24] thicker than a human neck. And we have

[12:25] two of them with a massive bone in

[12:28] between them. So, let's see what it

[12:30] does. I'm gonna try to aim right towards

[12:33] that bone.

[12:46] Okay, that literally knocked leaves off

[12:49] the trees.

[12:52] That was devastating.

[13:18] Okay, so this is the first pork shoulder

[13:20] that our 30 6 hit. And it did hit kind

[13:22] of towards the top, which is good. That

[13:24] is where I was aiming. Still a direct

[13:26] hit. And you can see that it went

[13:28] straight through that bone that is in

[13:31] the middle of that pork shoulder. So, it

[13:33] went through that one, straight through

[13:34] the bone, came out the back right there.

[13:37] didn't even really start to, you know,

[13:39] do any damage. Then after it went

[13:41] through the first pork shoulder, it hit

[13:42] our femur bone and the damage it did to

[13:45] this is absolutely diabolical. It just

[13:48] blew right through it, split it in half,

[13:51] and I don't even know where the other

[13:53] half is at. I did hear bone fragments

[13:56] raining down on the table.

[14:00] Um, so maybe it just got completely

[14:01] exploded, but you can clearly see that

[14:04] that massive bone was not enough to stop

[14:08] the 300 6. It just blew right through

[14:10] it. And then, surprisingly, at least to

[14:12] me, the second pork shoulder that was

[14:14] behind our femur bone is where the vast

[14:17] majority of that damage was done. Slap

[14:20] the crap out of that bee. We do have

[14:22] some bullet fragments on this one. I

[14:24] don't know if you can see that little

[14:26] piece of lead right there, but I mean,

[14:29] this one just absolutely got

[14:30] obliterated. And it did go through the

[14:32] bone in this one as well. So, it went

[14:34] through all three bones, both pork

[14:36] shoulders and the femur that was in the

[14:38] middle, and still blasted right through

[14:41] this one. And then behind our meat and

[14:43] bone, we had these two onegon water

[14:45] jugs. And this is the first one. It just

[14:47] blew through that one, no problem at

[14:48] all, which tells me that that bullet

[14:50] still had quite a bit of energy left on

[14:52] it. And then the second water jug right

[14:54] here has an entrance hole there. And I

[14:59] don't see an exit hole. And we actually

[15:01] have a good bit of that bullet inside

[15:05] our second water jug. And those are the

[15:06] fragments that I found in our second

[15:08] water jug. That actually just looks like

[15:10] copper jacket mostly. So I assume the

[15:13] lead bullet either broke apart or it

[15:15] could have curved and exited out one of

[15:17] the sides. Again, that is typically what

[15:20] rifle rounds do when they hit fleshy

[15:22] targets. So, even with all of that, we

[15:24] were still not able to fully stop this

[15:26] bullet. And hopefully this kind of shows

[15:27] you why people were so skeptical when

[15:30] they said there was no exit wound with a

[15:32] 30 six. That is very hard to believe.

[15:35] But I'll reiterate that doesn't mean

[15:37] it's impossible. Bullets do weird

[15:39] things. And if you believe the official

[15:42] story, he was firing from a rooftop at a

[15:45] downward trajectory, which means the

[15:47] bullet would already be kind of angled

[15:49] going in and could have curved down and

[15:51] went into his back, which apparently is

[15:52] what they're saying. So, was it another

[15:55] magic bullet? I really don't know. But I

[15:57] don't blame anyone who doesn't believe

[16:00] the official story because this is a

[16:02] very hard caliber to stop, especially on

[16:04] a target that thin. All right, guys. I

[16:06] hope you all enjoyed the video. Um, let

[16:08] me know what you think down in the

[16:09] comments below, like which theory you're

[16:10] believing and stuff like that. One thing

[16:12] I will say about conspiracy theories is

[16:14] I always like to ask the question why.

[16:16] Like, why would they lie about the

[16:18] caliber that was used? Why would they

[16:20] lie about there not being an exit hole?

[16:22] And I'm kind of struggling with those

[16:23] questions on this one because none of it

[16:26] really makes sense. That being said,

[16:27] they're not giving us much information

[16:30] at all. So, I don't blame anyone for not

[16:33] believing the official story. I'll even

[16:35] admit some of this stuff is kind of hard

[16:37] to believe at this point. So, I hope you

[16:39] all enjoyed the video. If you did, let

[16:40] me know down in the comments below. As

[16:42] always, hit that like button for me,

[16:43] guys. I would really appreciate it.

[16:44] Thank you all for watching and I'll see

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