by Mike Adams, Natural News:
GAME CHANGER: I don’t know why I didn’t recognize this before, but the iron sights mounted on the rifle used by Crooks were, indeed, mounted 90-degree off axis so that the rifle could be laid on its left side and fired comfortably from a prone position, without the rifle magazine getting in the way. I should have seen this, as I have a set of 45-degree iron sights that achieve a similar thing, but for the record, it is highly unusual to see anyone mounting a rear iron sight in a 90-degree configuration. I’m not even sure what hardware would be necessary to achieve that, and my first concern would be that such hardware might interfere with brass ejection. If only the FBI would show us photos of the rifle, we would know more…
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Credit goes to the MrGunsGear channel on YT for pointing this out, and to Raven Geostrategic for including this in their most recently analysis report. Now that this has been pointed out, I completely agree with this assessment, and I’m showing here an AI-enhanced high resolution image of the rifle (rotated 180′ from the body cam freeze frame) which now clearly makes perfect sense.
As Dr. Chris Martenson pointed out in a recent video, this might also explain the differences in the audio signatures between rounds 1-3 and rounds 4-8. Perhaps Crooks fired rounds 1-3 with his rifle rotated onto its left side (using the right-side mounted iron sights), then when those didn’t hit his intended targeted, he oriented the rifle into a normal zero-degree orientation and fired a 5-round burst. This would both explain the 2.6 second delay between the two bursts of fire as well as the differences in audio signatures which caused many of us to believe there must have been two shooters.
Personally, I did not consider the possibility that one shooter could have rotated his rifle 90 degrees between shot bursts. But that would, indeed, strongly alter the audio signature. So now I’m updating my analysis to reflect this realization. The multiple shooters scenario now seems a whole lot less likely to be the accurate story here.
Back to the lone shooter theory?
This changes everything. It means that Crooks had a red dot sight mounted on the normal axis (top of the receiver), and iron sights mounted 90-degrees on the right side, meaning HE KNEW he was going to be firing from a prone position on the roof, and he prepared his sights in that configuration in advance (and, presumably, sighted them in while in that configuration).
In my view, this strongly leans us toward the scenario where Crooks was an active shooter (there is still the possibility of more than one) and very likely fired off at least the very first 3 rounds, if not the subsequent 5-round burst. It also likely means he wasn’t merely told to show up for a “training day” exercise with a rifle. Instead, he showed up with a very specific rifle configuration that is highly unusual and points to his foreknowledge of needing to fire that rifle from a prone, rooftop position where the rifle needed to be on its side because of the protruding magazine.
It’s worth noting that even if you have a ballistic reticle in a red dot sight, that ballistic reticle assumed your rifle is held in a zero-degree orientation. If you lay your rifle on its left side, any ballistics (bullet drop) details etched into the red dot glass become obsolete and cannot be used, because they are now indicating holds to the right instead of down.
All of this speaks to the intent of the shooter. Clearly he had intent to fire rounds at Trump, and he configured his rifle for that intent.
Is the Crooks rifle location mystery solved?
I’m also being told that there is footage of LEOs removing the rifle from Crooks when they first made it onto the roof, and although I haven’t seen that footage myself, if that’s genuine, then it solves the mystery of why the rifle was located so far from Crooks’ body.
