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Supposedly the gun was purchased by the father months ago. I suspect they noticed the gun was gone, but didn't want to turn their son into police, so they called in missing persons.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe you will find the firearm was purchased 'years' ago, not months ago.  Regarding your suspicion, I would say this is an accurate supposition.

 

I'll disagree with you here. FSK is not encryption. If I remember correctly, it's correction for Doppler effect over distance, but don't quote me on that it's been a long time.

Yes and no.  Yes, it was not originally intended as an encryption method alone, but rather a means of channelized RF communication which just happens to have some simplistic encryption-like characteristics as part of its protocol.  And no, it is in fact used for channel separation to prevent various unwanted functionality.  Aside from Morse Code radio operation, one the more common applications of FSK which people would be familiar with is garage door openers.  FSK prevents one homeowner's garage door opener from opening another homeowner's garage door (i.e. there is a specific channel and/or code which is reasonably discrete to the opener in question).  But there are thousands of other uses also, this is just one of the more common applications.

 

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433Mhz devices are readily available on Alibaba. I own several for weather forecasting.

The 433MHz area of the RF spectrum is used for literally tens of thousands of different types of devices around the globe.  Some of the more common uses (beyond the FSK discussion above) are the traffic tolling sector, railway car identification, and inventory control among many, many, others.  I work in RF and electronics engineering as it relates to aviation, so I'm pretty familiar with this area of the spectrum and many of the devices operating in it. 

 

It looks like an X10 remote to me. Anyone alive before 2000 might have had one of these for home automation.

There are hundreds of different manufacturers and models of these types of transceivers.  In fact, they are so common that they are almost universal.  Point being, calling one out by specific model may not be all that meaningful as many of these devices are interchangeable.

 

Sure, and a layman isn't going to look at this steel warehouse and say "oh, that's 12'". He either knew or he was told. Even as someone very vaguely experienced with ladders, and heights, I couldn't tell you from Google maps how tall that structure is without seeing it in person.

So, my conclusion is that he's either been there before or someone told him what size ladder he would need to reach the roof.

Well, not to be pedantic here (and, admittedly an engineer here), but a common eave height on a single story roof is often 12' or 14' feet.  This is one of the reasons ladders are commonly sold in 12' foot heights for exterior, and 6' foot for indoor ladders (to access 8' and 9' foot interior ceilings).  Point here being, a 12' foot ladder would be a pretty good bet for a ladder height without the need to scout the area first.  This may wind up not being relevant anyway because now there are reports he accessed the roof via an A/C unit (not a ladder).

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I know someone answered this, but I think they misunderstood the question and figured I'd get back to this because I think it's relevant.

The US was already in a civil war by the time Lincoln was shot but things really ramped up after that. Ultimately culminating in Southern states moving to full secession. This ended with the South defeated and the end of Slavery in the US. Despite what Wikipedia will tell you, Lincoln was basically a modern day republican and the secessionists were Democrats. The Democrat party continued to back African slavery full up into the early 1900s. I think the only reason they really stopped was the great depression ergo lack of demand followed by racial tensionsvin the late 50s through early 70s.

The point is, the assassination promoted the real kickoff of the civil war.

I think your timelines are off here.  Lincoln was instrumental in bringing about the "end" of the Civil War, not so much the start.  But regarding Lincoln, it was Lincoln's ascension to the presidency which significantly escalated the Civil War.  In other words, it was his election, not his death, which caused the escalation.  In any case, Lincoln's death definitely did not 'cause' the Civil War, but rather the other way around.

Lincoln ultimately lived to see the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 at Appomattox which is largely considered the 'end' of the Civil war.  Lincoln was assassinated (5) days later on April 14th, 1865.  The Civil War didn't 'officially' end until the proclamation by Andrew Jackson in August of 1866 (over a year later), but there were no major Civil War battles following Lincoln's death

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I don't have enough free time to spend on things like this.

So...you expect others to do the research to your questions for you??  If you don't have enough time to do the research, then how do you have enough time to ask all the questions and read all the answers people try to give you?

Or, should we just ignore the questions altogether?