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.
Gun magazines can be empty.
Yeah sure, lemme just carry around an empty magazine and a box of ammo, then load the magazine. I’m sure whatever i have the gun for will patiently wait for me to load one bullet at a time, then load the gun.
I’m not saying whether you should or shouldn’t, I’m merely acknowledging that unloaded magazines exist.