Way too much energy is spent on these boards to show something to be fake with absolutely no actual evidence, just opinion on what something looks like to them, blah blah blah.

My AR15 has a hell of a muzzle flash and at that close range the burning gas would cause damage in addition to the bullet itself AND it would probably cauterize the wound a bit...

So that rat bastard should be happy Kyle was kind enough to help him not bleed to death!

I'd say this is a real and pretty nasty looking exit wound. I'm medical (nursing), former EMS. There's a lot of muscle here, speaking in terms of anatomy. Muscle tissue would be oxygenated and blood rich which is exactly what we see right here. However, there was no arterial damage (assuming that from the fact this guy is alive.) and this wound is fairly clean, which you would see in traumatic muscle damage such as this especially with this type of round. All in all the wound is fairly clean looking- (Unlike JFK, etc.). Think about it- you have thousands of pounds of kinetic energy, at fairly point blank/ close range and it's a rifle, not a sub-compact pistol or revolver. Not everything has a conspiracy behind it, ALTHOUGH- we do live in strange times.

Personally, I've been involved in SFX and if I wanted to fake a wound to the bicep, it would look like this. However, I'm not a medical expert and have zero experience with actual wounded people. I know there are several combat veterans and medical personnel on here whose input would be valuable: That's why I felt it would be valuable to post this here.

this looks real, a large wound does not have to spray blood all over, and most likely this man is in shock and possibly has nerve damage that could reduce pain

Heh, UNLESS THE ENTIRE NIGHT WAS A MOVIE<
I was watching live that night, you know.. in real time.. Not fake. Was watching a few streams open on my desktop Two were live on twitch and another on Facebook(think or ytube) That guy that was witness at trial (one that is local and was concerned the rioters were breaking the dinosaurs and stuff) A streamer that goes by CJ (the one that tried to put the fire out and stop it from spreading to a church on a night before that) and Third, not sure.. do remember he was running down t he sidewalk across the car lot when the first shots went out and had ducked behind a car parked there.

So, saw kyle being chased by angry bald guy with bag while others were flanking to the sidewalks but, from that view, lost them kinda secs, when they hit the back corner and pop pop pop pop.. happened. Then caught up to kyle via another streamer as he was "jogging" toward the police line/gas station and people chasing yelling and trying to take swipes at him to go down.. and saw the ..yeah.. anyway.. (BY THE WAY, one of the people chasing kyle and in front of streamer reached back and pulled out a gun from his/her backpack.. remember seeing that and chat was commenting too... Real time.. saw kyle stumble downon ground heard the first shot.. saw guy stumble out of fram.. saw the other wip gun around .. and get shot AND stumble across street STILL holding the gun w/messy arm but could not see it fully till he went over and sat down. .. he went over and sat there calling for a medic(chat was being real mean about that, since Antifa always cries for an antifa medic when hit with rubber bullet or skinned knee), holding his arm and one of his buddies came over and pried the gun out of that hand while CJ (other streamer) assisted with the bloody mess. It all happened so fast though, without the video later to slow the seconds it took down, .. well thank god there was plenty of video recorded.. and leave it at that.
edit - eh, for instance, At the time it went down, I did NOT know the guy with skateboard was actually hit(and died) just seen him stumble away, found that out later, did not see Rosenb go down live (saw the footage of it later, with him gurglegaspin(btw HE was not bleeding all over as well, on the outside..), did not even know it was the same guy as seen earlier at gas station live, raging im peoples faces.) the ONLY one at that moment and live that I saw with injury WAS the guy with the gun still grasped in hand..

There's video of this guy's bicep exploding into a mist of blood. One second he's holding his hands out to feign submission and you can clearly see his arm is intact. Next second Kyle shoots, there's a cloud of blood, and dude's arm is rekt.

Seriously hate these "it's fake" posts because they all make assumptions that are clearly wrong as justification and people perpetuate it mindlessly. In this very photo: 1) There's blood running down the guys arm, hands, pants. The wound is bleeding profusely. It isn't dry. 2) What padding? It's his fucking arm. 3) Too much pain? Says who? Massive trauma like this sends you into shock and you don't really "feel" anything; you just act. Your brain just shuts down a lot of the pain sensory. Seriously, people cut their own limbs off to untrap themselves. The human body is capable of functioning through severe pain when survival is a priority.

what is this from another FF?

Not only a bullet comes out of the barrel. It looks like the width of the injury was caused or at least increased by gas. It would be interesting to know how far the end of the barrel was from his arm.

GC

It is quite possible for a powerful force to make a hole or cut off a limb and yet the blood is not gushing. Immediately. Because the blood vessels have been crushed together, maybe the person has low BP from shock, there is a temporary plug as it were, but this will quickly come undone from moving more. This was quite a hole, there were other pictures around and it's real. Later the guy posted a picture in the hospital, whining about it and how his arm was going to be weak now.

you guys just aren't used to seeing chewed off limbs. large open wounds can pool blood (making clots), blood vessels in the extremities will shut down and shunt blood to the interior. that wound is not dry, and forearm is not padded. you can do lots of damage without an artery spurting.

we've all seen the live video. unless you think he had a prosthetic, moulaged fake arm tucked in his jacket, it looks like he had a real bad day.

There were also pics of the guy in the hospital recovering, with a big chunk missing out of his arm.