The researcher who first postulated this hypothesis, Jon Bray, has been fine tuning his proposition as his research continues since he first posted his theory on X on September 17, 2025, 7 days after Charlie's murder. Bray's expertise in software engineering, battery technology, explosives, CO2 machines and high pressure equipment and his curiosity made him a natural to question the official narrative on Charlie's murder and to investigate what actually happened.

In my article published on lewrockwell.com on October 23rd, I explained Bray's theory had already convinced me. I had added it was likely Charlie had also been electrocuted and I still believe more than one factor caused Kirk's death. A few weeks ago, Candace Owens stated on her podcast in response to an audience question that she thought the exploding microphone theory was very credible. Attorney Baron Coleman, who is doing an excellent job on YouTube and X investigating the assassination, initially dismissed the theory but now thinks it is very plausible. Coleman also believes Kirk was likely electrocuted, tasered and had his neck broken.

The official FBI explanation is that Kirk was assassinated by a single 30-06 bullet from an old bolt-action rifle fired by Tyler Robinson from the Losee Center on the UVU campus 142 yards away from Charlie. When no exit wound was discovered, TPUSA's PR guy Andrew Kolvet explained in an X post that the medical examiner claimed Charlie had bones of steel like Superman which miraculously kept the bullet from exiting his body. Candace later revealed this magic bullet assertion was made by Erika Kirk, not the medical examiner.

Many military vets, snipers, ballistics experts and hunters tried to reenact the alleged shooting using 30-06 bullets but the results always ended in massive blasts in the back of the targeted objects. Those studying the videos in slow motion frame by frame and photos of the hit could clearly see something was happening under Charlie's shirt prior to the appearance of a neck wound. His shirt billowed up in the back, what looked like gas or smoke (Bray says it was gas) was released under his shirt, his shirt was then raised in the front and moved to the left around his neck, and the magnetic clasp shifted to his left.

Bray has painstakingly presented his findings over the past four months on X going into intricate technical and medical detail. He customized software using vector mapping to reveal energy dispersions and trajectories and posted these videos and photos on X along with his lengthy explanations. His basic theory is that the RODE wireless lavalier microphone Charlie wore under his shirt at the UVU event had a shaped charge inside the battery. A circuit board was also in the microphone and was attached to his shirt with a black magnetic clasp which was visible. Bray argues the intention of the assassins was for the microphone to explode onto his chest, causing a shockwave to stop his heart, and for this explosion to simulate a bullet shot into his chest. Thus, the official narrative of a 30-06 bullet would be the cover story.

But something went wrong, according to Jon. The microphone exploded and while the shaped charge injured the upper chamber of his heart, stopping it, and damaged his sternum, the circuit board by mistake propelled to Charlie's left into his shirt collar and the battery thrust into his neck, causing the wound. The battery momentarily blocked the blood, then fell out of his neck along with the gush of blood as seen in the first horrifying video by millions of people when the traumatic incident was livestreamed and later repeatedly replayed. The entry wound was therefore also the exit wound.