Posted on 07/08/2022 3:39:05 PM PDT by Libloather
**SNIP**
Videos of the shooting circulating online show the gunman approaching Abe from behind before firing two shots, both producing extremely loud cannon-like booms and plumes of white smoke.
Police later said they found multiple homemade guns and explosives when they searched Yamagami’s house, adding that he had allegedly admitted to shooting Abe with a DIY firearm.
From images of the gun, captured by bystanders including a reporter for Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, experts immediately suspected it was homemade. “The box-like device is wrapped in black tape and smoke can be seen coming from the muzzle. It’s certainly no standard shotgun,” a former detective for the Metropolitan Police Department firearms control division told The Daily Beast after reviewing photos.
While stressing it’s too early to be definitive about the precise design of the weapon used to murder Abe, another authority said the gun appeared to have some highly unusual features.
“I think the first interesting observation is that it’s clearly electrically fired,” said N. R. Jenzen-Jones, an arms and munitions intelligence specialist and Director of the U.K.-based Armament Research Services (ARES). “There’s electrical wire passing through each of those end caps that you can see in one of the images. That indicates to me that it’s an electrically-fired firearm.”
“My hunch is that it’s probably a muzzle-loading design,” Jenzen-Jones added. “It’s probably a smooth-bore weapon - by which I mean unrifled, like a shotgun - but again, that’s not a certainty.”
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Yep. It appears the Communist Chinese are thrilled of his demise.
That’s what I thought it was from a distant shot! A camera with a big telephoto lens.
Looks like you can still get electronic primers for the Remington Etronix rifle.
No need for home made black powder, there is a rather large fireworks market in Japan. Just cut open some mortar shells.
Electric matches, or as already mentioned, nicrome wire. Very easy to find.
Or a violin case...
Better ban fireworks.
Clearly Japan needs to outlaw iron plumbing pipe, threaded end caps, wires, batteries, switches, black powder, bits of wood, plastic, and tape.
When I was a kid, we made .22’s out of car antennas, .410 & 12ga cannons out of plumbing pipe and a nail. It’s not rocket surgery.
Yup, it was the fireworks that caused all of this.
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I think it was an episode of “Barney Miller” where a group of Japanese tourists was mugged. Barney asked if there was a description of the mugger, and someone said “ We got about a hundred pictures.”
Yes, firearms are easy to make. Tube, explosive charge, projectile/s and something to detonate the charge.
As this killer demonstrated a primer isn't necessary which is the one component of modern firearms that can't be homemade AFAIK.
Best image of the homemade gun I have seen. Good resolution.
Can you tell where the image came from?
Oohhh, a “ghost gun!” So spooky. /sarc
If the leftists hope to block this kind of DIY gunsmithing they are going to have to close all the schools and put lead in the drinking water. It is people that kill people and not the tool you stupid leftists.
Most assassins used blades in Japan, though guns are catching up.
Don’t get me started on rocket artillery based on sugar and an oxidizer.
It appeared, to me, to be about 20 to 30 feet away.
As you surmised, to me it looked like the first shot missed and the second one hit.
However, it takes a bit for a shot to take effect, so there might have been a hit with the first shot.
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