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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago (6 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 10 points 22 hours 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 22 hours 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 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean those are definitely anti-fascist, but I don't see a damn thing that could be interpreted as transgender.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

In the video the Utah Gov. also says "Spots bulge, OwO" or something like that, idk why they left it out in the text I copied.

But yeah still not technically transgender, just whatever "uwu shit" is called (back in my day we spoke 1337, idk the name of this new tongue.)

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

OwO is just an emoticon, we had those back on dialup too :-)

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

I think that'd probably be called weeb / weeaboo talk.

Look out weebs, Fox News is about to make you public enemy number one for MAGAts.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They left out the best part of the "Hey, fascist. Catch!" one

It was followed with ↑→↓↓↓

Ahh, I love the smell of a nice cup of liber-tea.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Me when I'm a white Utahn Mormon boy and I google antifascist slogans so I can pretend to be a leftist

[–] sausager@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why were there so many casings for all those messages? He only fired one bullet

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Multiple bullets in the Mauser's mag.

[–] sausager@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Oh they found unspent casings too, I see

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Reuters reports the same (1)