Earnestly asking someone to explain the physics of capturing an image of such a bullet streak under the observable conditions in which this photo was taken.

The photographer has said he was shooting with a shutter speed of 1/8000 second. He was as close as 5-10 feet from Trump. My understanding is that the muzzle velocity of an AR-15 round is up to 3,300 ft/s (1,006 m/s).

There’s some people doing napkin math in here:

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There’s some people doing napkin math in here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SonyAlpha/s/oXnzzhImcy

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Thanks! I was posing some queries to ChatGPT, and it was quite insistent the streak is more likely an aircraft contrail than a bullet trajectory, based on its own analysis. Then again, I find ChatGPT often struggles with basic counting 😆