It is now proven almost beyond the shadow of a doubt that Charlie Kirk was not wearing any body armor. The attending sheriff, Erika Kirk, dozens of photographs showing the outline of his pectoral muscles and nipples, and front row witness statements all concur that he was just wearing a t-shirt.
The idea that he was wearing body armor was based on a few frames of Charlie's t-shirt jerking up, and a good faith attempt to make the FBI story make sense. But the most credible proponent of that theory, Paramount Tactical, admitted (before statements from Erika Kirk etc) that there was already a "90% chance Charlie wasn't wearing body armor."
For their part, Turning Point USA's version of the story, and the FBI's, do not mention body armor at all. The official version of the story is that the bullet didn't exit and was trapped under the skin of Charlie's back.
So what are we left with? The officially blamed weapon is a Mauser 98 firing a 30-06 round over less than 200 yards. A typical 30-06 round has a muzzle energy of 2,500-3,000 ft-lbs. That's enough to shoot through solid buckets of ice, cow bones, steel plate, and bear skulls. Conclusion: there is no way that a 30-06 round shot Charlie in the neck and did not exit.
The official story is provably false. So what really happened?
edit: Paramount also threw cold water on the idea of a frangible 30-06 round.
First, the body armor theory was always observably horseshit. Armor doesn't repel bullets at right angles. I know most people here have never been shot at before, but Hollywood physics isn't real. Bullets don't bounce around like Tom and Jerry.
Second, if they have the bullet then they'll match it to the weapon during presentation of evidence. It's quite likely that this is yet another tall tale, just from the coroner's office this time.
Highly, highly doubtful it remained lodged in his neck.
Problem is, there's no evidence of an exit wound. 4 different camera angles but no viscera or other visual evidence, and Candace Owens has seen the video from the mysterious rear camera and says there was no gore there either. Plus the large size of the "entry" wound, even from a bullet like a 30-06, doesn't really make sense either.
But yeah, we'll see if the FBI starts talking about a bullet exit.
Weirdly enough a sniper proved that a very specific edge hit on body armor could deflect metal up into the neck, but it's not like that matters at this point.
Maybe the guy damaged the bullet when he was engraving the casing? Hit a bee on the way? Reporting inaccurate? Who knows. Weird things happen.
I'm not sure what the actual problem here is. He definitely was shot and killed despite what Gemini was saying a while back.
edit: the bee theory was supposed to be representative of "stranger things have happened", but I guess that's expecting too much here. Regardless, counterintuitively the higher the power the less the bullet penetrates water. Bugs are mostly water. A hollow-point would probably start disintegrating the instant it hit a big one. Million to one odds, but maybee so.
The problem is the FBI says he was shot with a Mauser 98, and he wasn't. Killed with a pistol round, maybe. Not a full-sized rifle cartridge.
The gun is made up, the text messages are made up, and Tyler Robinson was probably entrapped but wasn't even the shooter.
Okay so but the sum total of your evidence of that is 'well that's weird'. Weird stuff happens.