Scope mentioned in texts
Evidence Contested Circumstantial Transcript only digital
Charging thread: Robinson on the rifle, 'I think that was a $2k scope.' State recovered a scoped Mauser-type. Native phone extract not here.
A dollar figure in a quoted SMS is not an appraisal. It is a detail fabricators would have to invent and investigators would have to match to the recovered optic. Get the optic make and the native message.