McLaren's "Smoking Gun"
The idea of “smoke on the grassy knoll” is common knowledge in JFK assassination lore. Researchers differ in their opinions of its importance. However, McLaren points out that the early models of the AR-15 rifle were prone to producing a quantity of smoke when fired, and my opinion is that if witnesses associate smoke with the explosive head shot, then it is a connection that bears investigating.
I e-mailed McLaren to ask him for his source of the AR-15 smoke producing flaw. He was out of town working on a new book, and his original source papers were filed away, but he pointed me to YouTube to demonstrate the flaw. Below are a couple of examples of the early model AR-15 or M-16 (the military version of the AR-15) producing “a puff of smoke” when it was fired:
The idea of “smoke on the grassy knoll” is common knowledge in JFK assassination lore. Researchers differ in their opinions of its importance. However, McLaren points out that the early models of the AR-15 rifle were prone to producing a quantity of smoke when fired, and my opinion is that if witnesses associate smoke with the explosive head shot, then it is a connection that bears investigating.
I e-mailed McLaren to ask him for his source of the AR-15 smoke producing flaw. He was out of town working on a new book, and his original source papers were filed away, but he pointed me to YouTube to demonstrate the flaw. Below are a couple of examples of the early model AR-15 or M-16 (the military version of the AR-15) producing “a puff of smoke” when it was fired:
Not every shot in the YouTube videos produced a large amount of smoke, but enough did to convince me that the smoke “coming out from behind the trees” or from “just above the roadway” came from the AR-15.