Suspect in second Trump assassination attempt identified
The suspect in the second Donald Trump assassination attempt was a passionate supporter of Ukraine.
When Secret Service agents foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, they spotted a rifle barrel poking through a chain link fence at the edge of the property about 300-500 yards away, West Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a press conference.
The suspect, Ryan Routh, 58, ran for it but he left behind what Bradshaw described as an AK-47-style assault rifle, along with a backpack and a GoPro camera. However, firearms experts have pointed out that based on the grainy photos available, the weapon looks more like an SKS.
Routh, who fled the scene in a black Nissan vehicle, was later stopped along Interstate 95 in Martin County.
In the first assassination attempt on Trump in July, Thomas Matthew Crook, 20, managed to get close enough to Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania with an AR-15 to fire at him, grazing the presidential candidate’s ear, killing one spectator and leaving two others wounded.
What’s the difference between the weapons?
What is an SKS rifle?
Of the three, the SKS is the oldest. Developed in the 1940s by Russian weapons designer Sergey Simonov, the Samozaryadny Karabin Sistemy Simonova or SKS is a semi-automatic rifle that comes with a folding bayonet, a conventional wooden stock and a fixed ten-round box magazine which requires manual reloading, either by hand or from a stripper clip.
Replicas have been sold worldwide for civilian buyers who appreciate the durability, ease of use, reliability and relatively low cost and they are popular as hunting and sporting rifles.
The wooded scene photos showed a black “sporterized” modern SKS, with a detachable magazine. It had a scope added for longer-range shooting and appeared to have a “Monte Carlo” stock to fit better to a shooter’s cheek.
Firearms experts at The Military Wire called the weapon a 7.62x39mm SKS rifle with black synthetic stock. That’s the same ammunition as most AKs.
In a 2002 report from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the SKS was described at the time as “the rifle model most frequently encountered by law enforcement officers.” The report noted the ease of converting the SKS to full auto-fire, and that the rifles posed a threat to law enforcement because they could penetrate the type of soft body armmor
What is an AK-47?
The Avtomat Kalashnikova or AK-47 was developed by Russian weapons designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, as the first firearm in the AK family of rifles for the Soviet Army.
The AK differs from the SKS in several respects, most notably the detachable, curved 30-round magazine that makes reloading quick and easy, the new cartridge (the 7.92x33mm Jurz) and that it was fully automatic, providing the power of a machine gun and the accuracy of a rifle.
The AK-47 and its variants have been designed to be easy to manufacture, easy to fire and easy to maintain.
What is an AR-15?
The AR-15: 5 facts about this popular semi-automatic rifle
What you need to know about what the NRA calls the most popular rifle in America.
C. A. Bridges, Fort Myers News-Press
An AR-15 is a semi-automatic or self-loading rifle that has been called “America’s rifle” by the NRA with well over 15 million sold by 2019. “Semi-automatic” means that the weapon’s operator must pull the trigger to fire each shot. The rifle then automatically reloads. An automatic weapon is one that continues to fire as long as you hold down the trigger, and is (mostly) banned in the U.S.
An AR-15 is not a specific model, but a style. It’s the civilian variation of the ArmaLite AR-15, a variant of the AR-10 designed by Eugene Stoner in the 1950s, that was extremely lightweight, easy to care for and highly adaptable. ArmaLite sold the patent to Colt in the 1960s and they developed an automatic-fire version for the military called the M16. After Colt’s patent ran out, other manufacturers began making their own versions.
AR stands for ArmaLite Rifle, named after the company that developed it. AR does not stand for “assault rifle” or “automatic rifle.” They’re considered to be more accurate than either the SKS or AK-47 and are much easier to modify, but not as simple to maintain.
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