I don't know anything about the AR15 but I understand that bullets spin rapidly when leaving the rifle, the radius depends on several factors like model of gun, bullets and manufacturing quality. At that sort of distance, the cone's radius is about 5". If his ear was hit by a bullet, the bullet would have hit his temple or the back of his head.
Yes - as you say you know NOTHING about shooting, but feel qualified to invent all manner of utter cr@p about things you have no grasp of. You assert with huge confidence supposed 'facts' which are nothing of the kind.
Please take this from a fifty year rifle owner and shooter of many firearms, from large calibre to small bore rifles, used in all manner of country and terrain for pest shooting and on ranges where I shot in matches and beat army shooting teams with the Belgian designed SLR, 7.62mm assault rifle at the end of the 1970s.
The criminal lunatic by the name of Crooks, fired a number of shots at Trump from about 120 - 130 yards from a prone position, which ought to have made it easy for him to hit his intended target in a life threatening place - life threatening, especially bearing in mind Trump's age and health.
Forget the supposed mechanics of the flight of the bullet - especially unstable bullets - a feature which only happens with unstable loads and not properly designed, stable loads used by most shooters. They go where they are pointed, affected by wind, temperature and the ability of the shooter and not much else. You KNOW NOTHING about this and are simply parroting rubbish about cones and corkscrewing. No practical shooter cares a jot about this. Different calibres of rifle shoot differently predominantly because of their differing muzzle velocity and design. The BIGGEST factor on where the bullet lands up is the steadiness of the shooter.
Crooks narrowly missed probably his first shot which was likely Trump's head. People who knew him at the gun range he attended, said he was a poor shot and failed miserably to qualify for the match team when he applied.
Bear in mind that the attempt to get on the team was him in a calm state. His mind set when attempting to shoot the ex President would have been extraordinarily agitated. He would have been quivering with emotion, fright and excitement and there is nothing that could have a worse impact on his ability to shoot Trump in the head. That would have required a very precise and steady shot at 130 yards. If he had accomplished such a shot it would have been extremely lucky for him bearing in mind the state of his emotions and agitated body when he attempted it.
If he had aimed at Trumps substantial chest or torso we would likely be discussing a very different kind of event.
He fired a barrage of about seven other shots which hit people feet away from his target. It is even possible that his first shot was not the one which hit Trump in the ear, but that that one was just part of a spraying barrage of crazy shots in the direction of Trump. It could be, though I do not assert this, that what hit Trump's ear was a fragment of a bullet that had broken up on impact with something else such as the lectern or whatever was in front of Trump. The AR15 is a rapid firing, small bore assault rifle, which would allow a shooter to fire a lot of pretty random shots in a general area. It is a small calibre not much bigger than a .22 - only half a mm bigger bore, though about three times the velocity of the .22 rimfire which I now use weekly for rabbit pest control.
Trump was lucky he was only winged in the ear, unfortunately one of the other victims died and one was badly injured.
It is unsurprising that not all the bullets or fragments of them have been found. Ammunition like that used starts off at velocity around 3,200 feet per second and if they were expanding bullets (quite likely) they would be smashed into fragments on striking anything at all solid.
Much has been said about the AR-15, the mass shooter’s weapon of choice. Meet the hyper-destructive bullets they use: expanding aka hollow-point ammunition.
theintercept.com
The only conspiracy that any sane person sees here is the plan of a sad, ignored, wannabe famous, loner, to make a name for himself by carrying out a murderous outrage, with no regard for anyone that was near his intended target. It does not matter that I despise Trump; I utterly condemn such a horrible crime.
You have a tendency to imagine conspiracies in a variety of directions. This indicates a very odd state of mind. Contrary to the view that there are conspiracies everywhere, mostly, things are exactly what they first look like.
