An affidavit filed in the criminal complaint against alleged Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh reveals he possessed a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope, according to reports. FBI Special Agent Mark A. Thomas's affidavit describes the firearm found in bushes where Routh was allegedly hiding as an “loaded SKS-style 7.62×39 caliber rifle with a scope.” Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw initially described the gun as an “an AK-47 style rifle with a scope” during a press conference.
An affidavit in the criminal complaint against alleged Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh indicates he had an SKS rifle with him, according to reports.to FBI Special Agent Mark A. Thomas’s affidavit, indicating the gun found in the bushes where Routh had allegedly been was a “loaded SKS-style 7.62×39 caliber rifle with a scope.”
In a press conference shortly after Routh’s arrest, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw described the gun as an “an AK-47 style rifle with a scope.” An AK-style rifle and an SKS-style rifle bear some resemblance to one another, in that both are Soviet-era guns and both firearms run off 7.62×39 ammunition. However, whereas AK-47s can be had in automatic or semiautomatic versions — the former used on battlefields and the latter available for the civilian market — SKS rifles are strictly semiautomatic.The 7.
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