Even in the best of circumstances, ballistic matching is bunk science used to secure confessions. When the bullet is mangled, nobody is going to take the stand as an expert witness and say "yeah that came from this gun."
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could not conclusively connect a bullet fragment recovered during Charlie Kirk’s autopsy to the rifle found near the scene
No confirmed match =/= confirmed to not match.
They didn't find a link, not that they proved that a link was immposible. Don't fall in to the Klandece Owens crazy hole.
Plot twist: the guy they arrested only tried to kill Kirk, but missed. Turns out some someone else had the same idea at the same time, landed their shot, and spent the next several days confused as hell reading headlines about the shooter turning himself in.
That’s because he spontaneously exploded.
Are they trying to say that there was a different shooter, or that "necks just do that sometimes"?
They're saying that, when a bullet is fired from an ancient gun and ricochets off of hard objects, then that bullet will likely be mangled beyond identification. This means that there is not enough evidence to positively connect the bullet to the gun in court. This is normal.
I think there's a list of questionable things about Crooks and the FBI allegations. The timeline, the re-assembly of the gun, the sketchy discord messages, etc. This bullet doesn't make the list.
I just want to say it's a bit poetic to me that the antique rifle wireless hole-puncher allegedly used has a long history of deleting fascists.

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