fwiw , my suspicion it that the PTB are using OPs as patsies , easier to condition less likely to act out in unpredictable ways and less of a karmic rebound should the intended script run afoul.
Thank you. Without a direct hit to the chain no, even then the projectile would simply cut it. Ballooning skin (and chest) with no exit? Chain would move with the skin and return with it, may drag the cross further up his chest, skin might split too. That's happened with pigs I shot back in the 80's, no exit wound but a split using a .270 Win and .303 British but the bullet always passed close under the skin to do so. Parallel to flat bone like a scapula or pelvis causing localized expansion and splitting of the skin on younger pigs with no exit wound. I can't see how a chain/crucifix, propelled by localized ballooning skin would have enough energy to lift a shirt neckline level with the ear. Try it at home with a new T shirt in a mirror, pinch and pull the neckline level with your earlobe, takes a bit of force, then let it snap back. Notice the wrinkle and fold pattern too. Would a silver crucifix propelled by ballooning chest and skin have enough energy to achieve that? The chain would tighten a little before returning to pretty much it's original position. A blunt or deformed projectile could catch the fabric and do that. I know people will be conducting tests with ballistic dummies etc. but you really need something with skin on it, like a pig carcass for a better analogue.
If CK was hit in the neck by a light 30-06 frangible bullet the fragments would travel forward and a deformed central core could lodge under the skin or scapula. Other fragments would lodge in various structures, some would pass through muscle and hit skin, not penetrate but travel along it before stopping. If the carotid was ruptured but not the airway you could get a lot of blood exiting from the entrance wound too. Generally the entrance wound closes and blood follows the path of least resistance. I've seen all this happen hunting but why does his shirt behave that way? Fragments from frangible bullets don't go sideways, the bullet may tumble upon impact and fragment but I doubt we'd, see the shirt inflate as we did, far less energy from light projectiles even when you increase the powder load. Could use a specialist sabot round but you'd want to practice and sight your rifle in with with it first and once again the shirt wouldn't inflate. May as well just use a regular ballistic or soft tipped 30-06, a soft/ballistic tip 5.56 or even a ballistic tipped .22 magnum or .17 HMR rimfires. I shoot the .17 HMR rimfire with ballistic tipped bullets that are by nature frangible, rapidly disintegrates within 2 inches of penetration sending small metal fragments forward in cone. Leaves no exit wound and the entrance wound is tiny, 4.5mm but due to internal damage you often get a lot of blood that can exit the wound in quantity if it has no where else to go and the heart still beats. Finally, I've shot deer and large pigs at close range in the chest with heavy caliber bullets to ensure they're dead, an apparently well hit and dead deer or pig can get up and run. There's no weird asymmetric bulges, just a ripple from the shock wave radiating from the entry point.
Somewhat speculative but want to ask since you have experience with different ammo types/caliber , would not even a frangible bullet 30.06 type with smaller load ( 50 grain ?) still have exit wounds if its entrance wound is the neck as with CK ? given how thin neck is , seems plausible if not certain ?.
Oh FFS. He's turned 'actor theorist'.
Goddangit, what a strange time to be alive indeed.
