Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.
The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan five days earlier.
No way to know if those bullets and other objects on the bag were there or were planted by the cops.
This. They didn’t find the gun or the manifesto until after the bag was taken to the station. Haven’t seen the bodycam video, but cops carry 9mm pistols, so it would be incredibly easy for them to plant a mag during his being detained. A gun would be easy to plant once at the station, where they also just happened to ‘find’ his ‘manifesto’.
Assuming he carries the same gun as them I guess. Mags aren’t universal.
My hunch is that the shooter, whoever it was, dumped the gun, silencer, and manifesto somewhere and the cops found it. When they decided they had the shooter in custody, they ‘found’ the evidence in his possession.
Doubtful, the manifesto was full of cop dicksucking and tied off any possible loose ends perfectly.
It was a cops fanfic manifesto they are claiming is legit.
Why go through the trouble of makkng a “ghost gun” if you’re going to keep stuff like this? It doesn’t really make sense.
also having monopoly money? and an extra backpack found mysteriously somewhere else? or the fact they were came extremely quickly to that mcdonalds.
And why would you bring it with you on your trip to fucking McDonald’s? Like who’s brining their ghost gun evidence of a week old crime, and their poorly spelled copaganda manifesto, when grabbing lunch?
Just forgot it was in his bag? The bag that was illegally searched on site but no weapon was found until after an 11 min camera blackout and a trip to the station…
Exactly. The whole point of a ghost gun is that it’s untraceable. You made it yourself; they can’t track it so some purchase record. The way you use a ghost gun is you make it, use it, and then just leave it at the crime scene. You make sure you never touch the thing with bare hands, so there are no prints on it. If you made one ghost gun, you can make another. They’re easily replaceable. No need to keep it with you after the crime.
Speak for yourself. Ghost guns are just guns without the paperwork, I own and shoot both regularly in a lawful manner.
$6 in plastic and $150 for a used part kit is dope.
Dude was well off. 150 is nothing to him.
My point was ghost guns shouldn’t directly be associated with criminal activity. Normal everyday people use them for lawful purposes too. I have a few since they are cheap and fun to make.
I mean, after 2023 its actually is illegal to own a ghost gun. So lawful citizens won’t be making one and anyone making a ghost gun is automatically a criminal because of the criminal activity.