Shinzo Abe, Japan’s former prime minister, dies after being shot

The Guardian ^ | 8 July 2022 | Staff

[rlmorel]

LOL.

When I lived in the Philippines back in the Sixties, some students blew up the school chemistry lab trying to make rocket fuel...:)

[deks]

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[deks]

Bloomberg does not allow any material (including © photos such as this one) to be posted on FR.

[Born in 1950]

Every one in our neighborhood had a trash incinerator in the basement. I was tasked with operating ours. After the blaze began I’d add fuel to see if I could get flames to lap the ceiling. All the kids did it.

The incinerator was where I learned plastic would drip flames when on fire.

My father was a firefighter and house fires were all but unheard of. Maybe playing with fire was safer then.

[caww]

Thank you for your concern.

[Deaf and Discerning]

"Japan, which doesn’t permit ANYBODY to have ANY KIND of firearms."

"Re: 3 - Not true - please don’t post things that are easily researched."

You're right, Fury:

"Out of a population of approximately 110,000,00 people, there are 8,523,242 guns in Japan, and an estimated 6,000,452 licensed gun owners, not including police officers."

https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Japan_(Right_to_Bear_Arms)#:~:text=Some%20people%20have%20been%20ostracized%20by%20their%20families,6%2C000%2C452%20licensed%20gun%20owners%2C%20not%20including%20police%20officers.

[L,TOWM]

However, if fireworks are legal in your country, a LOT of improvised weapons are possible. And possible in relative safely. Including some stuff that an MRAP would think twice about. Of course, good ole gasoline and a glass bottle has been fine against armored vehicles for 100 years now.

[deks]

You really want FR to be sued and put out of business? Do you not know how to find the source of the images you post?

That one is Getty Images. Everybody knows that they cannot be posted here.

https://fortune.com/2017/02/11/dollar-strength-trump-abe/?iid=sr-link7

[rod5591]

probably it was black powder charged—like the old time muskets—no shells needed

[rod5591]

sodium nitrate +sulpher + charcoal = old fashioned gunpowder, not at all hard to make.

[caww]

Thank you for the correction...and observation.

[ChessExpert]

Another Covid death?

[Clutch Martin]

“Where’d he get the shells?”

I think it was kind of a Muzzleloader that was electronically fired. He might have fabricated the charge. Zap/Boom.

Slow burn/low boom (Boston marathon bomb).

Slow burn/low boom is a good indicator of improvised munitions. (Kinda common knowledge nowadays)

[Disambiguator]

I always vote at the shooting range, too.

[caww]

Great Memorial......

[Dr. Sivana]

Hi mew word is they don’t have protection for former PMs

I'm concerned about a dog that says "mew".