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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 months ago (15 children)

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-charlie-kirk-fbi-israel-gaza-september-12-2025/6390837/

From what I'm seeing:

1 HOUR AGO
10:39 AM EDT

Suspect's bullet casings had anti-fascist inscriptions engraved
By Danielle Abreu
Gov. Cox confirmed that investigators discovered a bolt-action rifle and scope wrapped in a towel and inscriptions engraved on bullet casings belonging to the suspect in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.

One of the inscriptions read, "Hey, fascist. Catch!" and another read, “If you read this, you are gay." A third casing had the lyrics to “Bella Ciao," an Italian folk anthem sung by the anti-fascist resistance movement during World War II.

Looks like it's possible. Sidenote, hilarious to me hearing the Utah governor read what sounds like c/196 transcriptions in such an official voice.

[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reuters:

The bullet that killed Kirk had also been inscribed: "Notices Buldge OWO what’s this?”

Not enough people are talking about this. Makes 0 sense in context but great regardless.

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do you happen to know how? As a layperson this seems like a lot of words to inscribe on a single bullet....

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Casings, not bullets. In this image, the casing is the big brass part, and the projectile is the smaller part sticking out the end.

Also notice that 30.06 has a large casing. It's a big round.

It was the standard infantry round for the US through 2 world wars, and was by far the most popular hunting round for decades. It was replaced by the military with the adoption of the 7.62 NATO (essentially a .308, but there's more to it than that) with the move to standardization between the allies, and that was replaced as the standard round by the 5.56/.223 with the move to lower caliber, and now this new Sig whatever.

It's a little outmoded these days and lots of manufacturers have moved on to more modern ammo for hunting and precision shooting, but it remains popular simply because of how ubiquitous it was.

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