If you thought former U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s “roof was too steep for snipers” excuse was a lame one—and it was—you’ll love Biden administration FBI Director Chris Wray’s excuse for how the would-be assassin got up on the roof “unnoticed” prior to shooting former President Donald Trump in the ear.

It seems the reason was that the AR-15 the would-be assassin used had a dreaded collapsible stock, making it easier to get on the roof with a rifle unnoticed.

“I can tell you, which may be relevant to your questions, that, um, and I don’t think this has been reported yet, that the [Trump assassin’s] weapon had a collapsible stock which could explain, uh, why it might have been less easy for people to observe,” Wray said. “Because one of the things that we’re finding is the first people to observe him with the weapon was when he was already on the roof and we haven’t yet found anyone with any first-hand observation of him with the weapon walking around beforehand. So that doesn’t mean he wasn’t, obviously, but the collapsible stock is potentially a very significant feature that might be relevant to that.”

Hmmm, so a man climbing up on a roof 150 yards from the stage where the former president was set to address the rally crowd wasn’t suspicious since all the people who had reported seeing the guy hadn’t actually seen him with a rifle until he was already on the roof? Right. And never mind that one law enforcement official prior to the suspect being spotted on the roof had already reported seeing him ranging the distance to the stage with a rangefinder. That wasn’t suspicious enough?

Nearly anyone with a brain knows that Wray scapegoating the collapsible stock is utter nonsense. When not extended, collapsible stocks on ARs only make the rifles about two inches shorter than when the stocks are extended.

A typical DPMS AR-15 with 16-inch barrel, like what the shooter used, is about 32 inches long. With the stock collapsed, the gun would likely have been 29 to 30 inches in length—not exactly what you’d call easily “concealable” when walking through a crowd and scaling a rooftop.

In truth, Wray was simply playing partisan politics with the shooting, trying to make it look like the Biden/Harris-run Secret Service hadn’t really messed up in letting the shooter get off several shots at Trump. That’s about par for the course for Wray.

In fact, just last week Wray was actually questioning whether Trump was, indeed, hit by a bullet.

“As I said, I think with respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” Wray testified before Congress last week. 

The FBI later reversed course, saying on Friday: “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle.”

The non-apology acknowledgement was met with a healthy dose of skepticism by the former president. In response to the statement, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I assume that’s the best apology that we’ll get from Director Wray, but it is fully accepted!”

Fortunately, it’s likely we won’t have to be hearing any other nonsense from Wray come January. If Trump manages to pull out a victory over supposed Democrat nominee Kamala Harris, it’s likely Wray will be one of the first agency heads to go once the new administration gets into place.

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  3. When dealing with the FBI/NSA/USSS/BATF/etc., you should begin with the assumption that everything they’re telling you is a bald-faced lie, until proven otherwise.

    • 100% correct with that statement. The p.o.s. leaders in those agencies are all corrupt politically biased minions, and the true enemy and national security risk that We The People have in this country.

  4. That’s strange, cause it turns out we know now after Wray’s BS excuses: The secret service knew about Crooks and had him under observation for almost 90 minutes before he fired the first shot yet never at anytime did they bother to approach him. Plus, several people saw him climbing onto the roof with the rifle in plain view and reported it as he was climbing onto the roof with the rifle in plain view and still the secret service didn’t react to approach and stop him even though they had been watching him the whole time for the past almost 90 minutes.

    • And, the rifle used was ~32 – 33 inches in length with the stock collapsed and he was not wearing anything under which to ‘conceal’ it. He was under observation by the Secret Service, several people reported (to secret service) they saw the rifle as he was climbing onto the roof. Plus, we also know now at least two members of the secret service sniper teams saw the rifle also.

      No, the stock being collapsed did not ‘conceal’ the rifle.

  6. RE: “A typical DPMS AR-15 with 16-inch barrel, like what the shooter used, is about 32 inches long. With the stock collapsed, the gun would likely have been 29 to 30 inches in length—not exactly what you’d call easily “concealable” when walking through a crowd and scaling a rooftop.”

    Removed two pins and the length drops to a short 24 3/4″ for the upper and 17 3/4″ for an A1 fixed stock lower. Plenty of rifles break down for transport which makes Wray an incompetent whitewashing jackazz grasping at straws. The more they talk the more they confirm there is a democRat in the woodpile…
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Mtry43uOKk&feature=shared

    • If you break it down into upper and lower, you now have two pieces that you can’t sling well, and you have to make sure you don’t drop your bolt carrier or charging handle out and lose any small parts. The only good way to carry a broken-down AR is to put it in a case, and there are no really unobtrusive cases or for ARs that aren’t some tiny SBR-PDW thing, that may or may not have a true detachable (and short) barrel.

      But this is all seemingly theoretical anyway. He didn’t take down his AR and the “evil” collapsible stock is an old excuse from the 80s.

      That’s a pretty funny video btw. lol

  8. Wray next time apply this – Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

  9. So what other stupid lies will Wray tell next to blame it on anyone expect the Secret Service failure (and beginning to look somewhat like they were in on it).

    Wray: “We have confirmed that President Biden’s uncle was eaten by cannibals who said ‘it tastes like chicken’. That’s why the Secret Service did not stop Crooks.”

  10. Wray is NUTZ. A folding stock like a firearm is still an inanimate object. Inanimate objects can’t do a damn thing without a human

  12. The FBI, who is notoriously tight-lipped about giving out info, usually hiding behind the “ongoing investigation” shield, willingly offered up two conspiracy theories. Wray offered the first, mentioned in the above article.

    Then, Deputy Director Abbate said they discovered a social media account, that may have belonged to Crooks, that espoused anti immigration and antisemitic sentiments.

    Gab Social CEO, Torba, posted a copy of FBI’s Emergency Disclosure Letter. According to Torba, a Gab account that the FBI believed belonged to the Crooks, which was more recent than the other account previously mentioned, was “UNEQUIVOCALLY, pro-Biden and in particular pro-Biden’s immigration policy.”

    Sen. Blackburn asked Abbate about that, and he confirmed that both accounts have been tied to Crooks, but not confirmed. But he was only going to mention the older one? Hmm…

    It’s very interesting that the information they freely give out goes in one particular political direction. Who would trust these hacks to be honest about anything?
    https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/07/30/gabs-ceo-contradicts-fbi-testimony-about-trump-assassination-attempt-n2177562

  13. No retractable stock saves much length/space, but they do allow for an adjustable length of pull in the case of most AR platforms. You want to save length/space? Fold it up.

    • Helps with not getting caught up on anything while getting in/out of various military vehicles designed before the widespread use of body armor. But other than that yeah length of pull is the big one.

      • Safe, the FN/Galil folder will make you a believer. I deployed my Galil from my patrol vehicle many times. It only takes a flick of the wrist to open it and it locks up like a fixed stock. Zero play. Oddly, FN added a button to their civilian PARA-FAL that has to be manipulated to fold the stock. That one left me scratching my head.

        • Had a some variant of an MP5 with a folding stock near the end of my enlistment and that was just fun to run around with. I have no doubt the handiness of your suggestions even without a short barrel involved.

  14. Wray is a fucking liar who happened to plant the seed that it might not have been a “bullet” that struck Trump’s ear. As if that even matters! Shrapnel from what exactly?, which by the way none of these mensa’s bothered to ask. And oh yeah…”It seems the reason was that the AR-15 the would-be assassin used had a dreaded collapsible stock, making it easier to get on the roof with a rifle unnoticed.”

    He wasn’t freaking unnoticed! Fuck you Wray and also the upper managment of the USSS.

    • The day after the shooting, all of the major news outlets ran a high-speed photo of the bullet
      captured passing about 6 inches past Trump’s ear, most likely trailing vapor from previously passing through his ear cartilage in it’s flight…guess Wray didn’t get the memo? Probably because him and the USSS director were busy putting out buzzword memos of their own…. Sniper. Steep Roof. Outside the Perimeter. Sniper Rifle. Sniper Ammo. Incompetent Local PD. Uncooperative Protectee. ……

    • Do they still believe that bullets fired from an AR-15 “tumble in flight” or “easily fragment”?

      Both were disproved decades ago.

      • Southern,

        Because “they” (‘journalists’, most Dimocrats and other species of Leftist/fascists, and gun control proponents (the Venn diagram of those three is near a perfect circle)) both intentionally, and also ignorantly, lack any knowledge of firearms, ballistics (or MOST elements of physics). Rather than being ashamed of/embarrassed about it, they are flaunting it. As the saying goes, “they’re stupid, and they are hoping that we are, too”. To be fair, most of their adherents/supporters ARE stupid, so maybe that’s just what their ‘lived experience’ tells them to expect.

  18. When I was kid on Sunday night at 8 I was watching the FBI catch kidnappers and kill bank robbers and just generally being the good guys. I want that FBI back.

    • Yeah, me too – ” FBI ” followed
      ” Bonanza ” on Sunday night TV.
      Hoss woulda taken the shooter out off’n that rooftop while on horseback, and Efram Zimbalist Jr.’s Inspector Erskine woulda’ kicked Wray’s ass singlehandedly, with a lighted Tareyton hanging from his lips. Those were the days, not this PC version of today’s procedurals.

      • Rtype,

        Yeah, “. . . he is republican.”. Look, @$$clown, ANYONE can call themselves a “Republican” or a “conservative” (c.f., “Fey” Wray, Liz Cheney, “Fiercely conservative” Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, Mittens Romney, both Bushes, etc., etc.). Most of us are intelligent enough to live by the old saying, “If a man says one thing, and does another, pay attention to what he does, NOT what he says.”

        “Fey” Wray is a deepstate, public-trough-feeding aparatchik – if he even HAS any political beliefs, they boil down to “what’s in it for me?”. You are kindly invited to hie thyself off and micturate up a cable.

  22. BREAKING NEWS: Biden ‘inflation act’ bill funding ‘Anti-American’ Groups. (and, although not said in video, interesting is research reveals these groups outlined in the video also support Americans being disarmed, removing the constitution and constitutional rights, and aid anti-gun groups)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qAOjscHmZA

  24. When these politicians and such start clamoring about AR15 features, I want to hand them an unloaded AR15 off the shelf and tell them to show everyone what they are talking about. Tell them to collapse that stock and then hide that AR on their person like they’re claiming. Watch the spaghetti fly.

    • My AR can fit in separate (but equal!)containers rather easily. That’s if it wasn’t relaxing at my friend’s home in nearby Indiana. Yes it’s true that 6 position stock doesn’t get super tiny secret squirrel ninja invisible🙄😀

      • walker,

        Nor does a “silencer” silence the sound of a shot, nor does a 5.56 NATO bullet blow out your lungs or blow arms off, nor does the impact of ANY bullet fired by a shoulderable, man-portable firearm literally make a grown person fly backwards, nor, nor, nor, ad nauseum. If anti-gunners actually knew, and had to deal with, reality, it would destroy their comfortable narrative. So they lie, and PRETEND to actual knowledge. Primarily, their “knowledge” of firearms comes directly from Hollywood. I’d say they were useful idiots, but the whole “useful” part remains to be proven.

        • Yes, the same Hollywood that portrays an AR as a machine gun, capable of shooting 600 rounds per minute, shooting about 1200 rounds in a half-minute, without changing the 30 round magazine.
          I gotta get me some of those.

  25. The dude had what can only be described as Carte Blanche access to the site for hours just prior to the event. The building he climbed was outside the security perimeter, meaning he could have easily stashed the rifle out of sight behind some of the HVAC or electrical equipment behind the building.

    So, no, he was not “seen” carrying the rifle around as he prepared to pull off his dastardly deed. He didn’t have to, it was already there!

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