Let the paint dry next time, boys.

So I posted this earlier and got a lot of questions, like "why the paint" and "why would they do this" and "are you sure this isn't legit?" Turns out, someone on Twitter did the research already.

https://twitter.com/karlhigley/status/1287831329661386764?s=20

So that explains where the paint came from. But you might ask, couldn't this just be covered in paint a protester had in the bag where they found the magazines? Well, about that...

And this just so happens to be the model being carried around by these paint-slathered feds.

Notice how the first and third mags have the brunt of the paint, and the second and fourth have almost none? Almost like they were in a chest rig, as Higley points out.

Sure, this could all be legit. But with the way the police in the Pacific Northwest have been treating peaceful protesters, and retaliating for as little as someone waving an umbrella, are we really going to just write this off as "a civilian happened to have the kind of AR mag that the cops were carrying, covered in the same red paint that the feds were hit by?" Plus, no sane person would make a molotov that would torch your entire arm when thrown, even if it wasn't only filled with 2 ounces of liquid.

Other commenters on that thread have pointed out how the rags in the mason jars are suspiciously similar in color to the paint on the cops in the picture. Almost like they used them to wipe the paint off.

Seems too convenient for me.

EDIT: At no point have I said these mags aren't available to civilians. I'm well aware. But unless civilians are dousing themselves in red paint instead of the feds, why would these be in an unseen bag covered in still-wet paint, with the shoddiest molotovs ever? If you think I'm accusing you of being a fed for owning a Magpul accessory, that's your problem.