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underpants

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7. Yeah. The video (doesn't) show all that. Buckshot hit ONE spot from maybe 3 feet?

Reply to purr-rat beauty (Reply #1)

Sun May 3, 2026, 07:10 PM

7 hrs ago

If he did fire the shotgun 🙄 with buckshot he’d have been ripped up. Everywhere the vest wasn’t.
One pellet hit? One?

The DC cop clearly shot the agent.

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Secret Service agent hit by buckshot from the gun of man charged in correspondents' dinner attack, prosecutor says [View all] EX500rider 8 hrs ago OP

It's Magic! purr-rat beauty 8 hrs ago #1

FWIW: Physics doesn't work like that OC375 8 hrs ago #4

Yeah. The video (doesn't) show all that. Buckshot hit ONE spot from maybe 3 feet? underpants 7 hrs ago #7

Buckshot is not a bullet, gab13by13 8 hrs ago #2

Exactly. Even those who know virtually nothing about munitions should recognize that. hlthe2b 7 hrs ago #6

Agreed and gee, one whole pellet. ratchiweenie 7 hrs ago #11

I'll believe it, when they prove it! bluestarone 8 hrs ago #3

A buckshot shell fires 9 pellets at once NickB79 7 hrs ago #5

Thanks. One pellet? Nothing on his legs? One pellet hit and the drywall behind him is okay? underpants 7 hrs ago #9

A suspicious new story pulled from a magicians black top hat..... magicarpet 7 hrs ago #8

If there are 9 pellets in one buckshot shell, at that range i want them to produce bluestarone 7 hrs ago #10

00 Buckshot melm00se 7 hrs ago #12

Before or after the gun was confiscated? cstanleytech 6 hrs ago #13

Do we even know if they checked to see if the gun was fired? what kind of shotgun shells did he have? 00 buck? ChicagoTeamster 5 hrs ago #14

Sure Jan orangecrush 3 hrs ago #15

Judge Boxwine sez what? area51 3 hrs ago #16

The most important part of this story is dixiegrrrrl 1 hr ago #17