Former Prosecutor Take: This Happens All the Time

Charlie Kirk Bullet

I’m seeing a lot of noise about this bullet fragment not being matched to a gun, like it’s some kind of bombshell. It’s not.

I spent ten years as a prosecutor. This happens all the time. Bullets hit bone, pavement, whatever’s in their path, and they get mangled. By the time they’re recovered, there’s not enough left to compare. When that happens, the result is “inconclusive.”

That doesn’t mean it didn’t come from the gun. It means there’s not enough there to say one way or the other. Big difference.

The media is blowing this up like it’s a turning point in the case. It’s not. It’s a pretty routine issue in any serious shooting case.

Ballistics is just one piece of evidence anyway. Cases aren’t made or broken on a single test result. They’re built on everything: witnesses, video, timeline, statements, all of it.

If you’ve actually been in a courtroom on these kinds of cases, this wouldn’t even register as unusual.