This thing with Ryan Wesley Routh stinks.
Why?
1. This is the first such criminal whose social media posts were NOT scrubbed by the Feds before they released his name. In other words, they WANT you to see those social media posts.
2. It's another failure of the Secret Service and this time they admit that President Trump is getting substandard protection.
3. An AK-type weapon? Looks like a Norinco SKS. That's weird.
4. The cops did a felony stop on him and they didn't kill him? Their restraint is unusual.
5. Ryan Wesley Routh is supposedly a Nikki Haley supporter? Like she attracts militant types to her campaigns? I'm sorry but on behalf of everyone allow me to say, Huh?
It smells. Bad.
Not an SKS, not even close, plus SKS uses stripper clips to load not magazines. Otherwise though I would say you are spot on.
I am waiting for Brandon Herrera, The AK Guy, to do a you tube vid on this particular model AK and why it was a stupid choice.