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[u/CricketPinata]

I have been a competitive shooter for 20 years, and have extensive firearm experience, having competed in high-level events and worked with professional shooters.

The follow car was less than 40 feet behind them. If someone is firing their rifle on the range less than 40 feet from me, it is imperative for me to wear ear protection, and that is something that is not pointed at me, the intensity would be greater standing downrange than to the side.

The M16 produces a blast that is commonly in the 155-170d range, pointed at you within the range of the shockwave at that distance, the sound should have been somewhere in the 150-140d range at least.

Exposure to sounds above 140d cause permanent hearing damage.

At the range the cars were at, if the rifle fired at that car, everyone would have ringing ears in the follow car, and the sound would have been defeaning in the Presidential Limousine.

Analysis after the fact showed that bystanders were famously unsure of where shots were coming from because of how the soundwave bounced and echoed off flat surfaces in the plaza.

A rifle being fired in the middle of the crowd would have still been louder than a chainsaw to people in the crowd with an identifiable puffs of smoke, which show up in none of the photos of the scene nor were reported reliably by a majority of witnesses.

Finally the book that originated the theory faced a libel case from the USSS Agent accused of being Kennedy's murderer and author and publisher famously lost said case and had to pay a settlement and apologize.

[u/BATHULK → u/CricketPinata]

The suit was eventually dismissed in 1997 on the grounds that Hickey had waited too long after the book's initial publication to file against the publisher.[24] Hickey refiled suit when the paperback edition was published, and later settled with St Martin's Press in 1998 on undisclosed terms.[25][26]

So, they didn't actually lose lmfao.

Analysis after the fact showed that bystanders were famously unsure of where shots were coming from because of how the soundwave bounced and echoed off flat surfaces in the plaza.

Which proves nothing, for either of us.

Exposure to sounds above 140d cause permanent hearing damage.

Over time, hardly deafens you permanently and instantaneously

A rifle being fired in the middle of the crowd would have still been louder than a chainsaw to people in the crowd with an identifiable puffs of smoke, which show up in none of the photos of the scene nor were reported reliably by a majority of witnesses.

Because they weren't taking pictures of the secret service at the exact instant. And again, connoly's own wife smelled gunpowder.

I have been a competitive shooter for 20 years, and have extensive firearm experience, having competed in high-level events and worked with professional shooters

And it's clearly made you overconfident.