Per the Wall Street Journal:

Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law-enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.

The older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with a spent cartridge still in the chamber, the sources said. There were also three unspent rounds in the magazine, all with wording on them.

This ought to end all attempts to blame Kirk’s murder on America’s gun laws — or, worse, on Kirk’s support of the Second Amendment. The “older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle” is the go-to example that gun-control activists give when asked which weapons they do not want to ban. Per the FBI, the gun was a “bolt-action rifle.” This means that it was not semi-automatic, that it did not belong to the AR family, and it did not have a so-called “high capacity magazine.” This sort of gun is legal in all 50 states. It is legal in Canada. It is legal in England, for goodness sake.

Already, I have seen some people argue that what happened to Kirk was “because of the guns.” It was not — at least not in any way that intersects with our practical politics. Access to .30 calibre bolt-action hunting rifles is uncontroversial in the United States, and it has been so for the country’s entire history. What matters a lot more is what was written on the ammunition that was fed into it — which, I’m afraid, has made it clear beyond reasonable doubt that Kirk was murdered for expressing opinions of which his killer disapproved.