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.


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…