Judge to hear Rittenhouse request for gun used in shootings

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

A Wisconsin judge was set to hear arguments Friday on whether prosecutors should return to Kyle Rittenhouse the assault-style rifle he used to shoot three people during a street protest.

Rittenhouse shot the men during the protest in Kenosha in 2020. He killed Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz in the arm. Rittenhouse argued he fired in self-defense after each of the men attacked him. A jury last year acquitted him of multiple charges, including homicide.

Rittenhouse's attorney, Mark Richards, filed a motion Jan. 19 asking prosecutors to return Rittenhouse's rifle, his ammunition, his face mask and other clothing he was wearing the night of the shooting to him. Richards and David Hancock, a spokesman for Rittenhouse, said last week that Rittenhouse wants to destroy the rifle and throw the rest of the items away so nothing can be used as a political symbol or trophy celebrating the shootings.

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Meanwhile, another legal fight is brewing over the fate of the $2 million conservatives raised to cover Rittenhouse's bail. Richards filed a motion Thursday seeking the money, with plans to divide it between his law firm and the #FightBack Foundation. Attorneys Lin Wood and John Pierce, who were representing Rittenhouse in the early days of case, formed the foundation to raise money for him.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/kyle-rittenhouse-heads-court-gun-shootings-82525628

[Initech]

1. Give a killer access to firearms and a not guilty verdict... what could go wrong?

[captain queeg]

2. It's hard to imagine him even making that request.

Maybe he’ll auction it off to fellow MAGAts.

[Karma13612]

20. Although I think the whole thing

Is distasteful,

Didn’t the article say he wants the stuff back so it can be destroyed?

He doesn’t want it to be part of capitalizing on the whole mess.

[pandr32]

3. Why? So he will use it again?

[sop]

4. The motion hearing was before Judge Bruce Schroeder, the judge who presided over the trial.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Wonder who will be his next target.

Now that winter has curtailed protests, he’ll have to search for some new targets.

[greenjar_01]

6. Can't wait for the gleeful celebrations from the absolutely loathsome Rittenhouse Fan Club

[justhanginon]

7. Seems unnecessary. Rittenhouse can sign the gun legally over to the proper authorities and

have them see to it that it and the other items are permanently destroyed. Easy peasy.

[groundloop]

8. Yep..... jeez, wonder if he's REALLY gonna' destroy it (NOT A CHANCE)

He'll most certainly auction it to his fellow gun-humpers. If he REALLY wanted the murder weapon destroyed he could simply inform the authorities.

[Dr. Strange]

13. Exactly what they just did.

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. They should definitely hand it back to him...

They should hand it back to him -unloaded- thru the bars of the jail cell he SHOULD be languishing in.

[Vinca]

10. He wasn't legally possessing it in Wisconsin, so fuck him. He probably wants it back so

he can auction it off to some wealthy gun humper to pay his legal bills.

[sakabatou]

19. Bingo!

[Bayard]

11. He wants the weapon back that he used to kill people

A memento?

There is something fundamentally wrong with that.

[sarisataka]

12. Looks like the judge signed off

On a deal to let the state destroy it

Judge OKs agreement to destroy gun used by Kyle Rittenhouse

[crickets]

14. Good. Otherwise it likely would have been kept as a grim trophy. nt

[groundloop]

16. That's good, it's about the only proper action out of this entire mess

[Paladin]

15. Rittenhouse already has his "trophy."

Years of easy money from the far-rightwing speaking circuit. The murderous little fucker, getting wealthy from the blood he shed.

[The Grand Illuminist]

23. All he cares about is that the damage is done

Just like a man named Jim David Adkisson. Remember him?

[turbinetree]

17. He's still a *&%$#@!(*&.....

and he wants to "destroy the weapon".......I got a bridge......

[PSPS]

18. Ka-ching for Mark Ruchards, Lin Wood and John Pierce. Cash in on the grift.

[llashram]

21. please

this young murderer wanting his weapon back is disturbing. I just hope he can be isolated and fade into obscurity. RW hero status notwithstanding.

[live love laugh]

22. To destroy evidence as he faces civil actions. nt

[Aussie105]

24. The thing should be rendered inoperative

and retained by authorities, to go into a future museum.

A museum called 'America's dark past - what we got so terribly wrong.'

It's going to be a very crowded museum, lots of things to go in it.

[SouthernDem4ever]

26. put it with the civil war memorabilia

that's part of the same past.

[DashOneBravo]

25. It says in the 3rd paragraph

“ Richards and David Hancock, a spokesman for Rittenhouse, said last week that Rittenhouse wants to destroy the rifle and throw the rest of the items away so nothing can be used as a political symbol or trophy celebrating the shootings. ”

[marieo1]

27. ABSOLUTELY NOT

NO, NO, NO............HE IS A KILLER AND SHOULD BE IN PRISON!!!