Posted on 07/08/2022 3:39:05 PM PDT by Libloather
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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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Are fireworks common there? Easy enough to to empty some firecrackers
They still hang murderers in Japan. Might be why they don’t have a lot of them.
The big question, why did it happen?
Note all three people in the photo are wearing masks.
Look up Peshawar gun makers. They make a lot of arms by hand.
Bkmk
Michael Western made similar
Loved that show.
That bastard!
What was the motive? That’s the million dollar question.
Can you tell where the image came from?
It is just Null and Void's image from post #2 above, with the size constraints removed.
Looks like the original photograph was from The Daily Beast:
https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1544,w_2747,x_136,y_143/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_1044/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1657290766/220708-shinzo-abe-assassination-hero1_zh68rq
Japan has some weird religious cults that have assassinated perceived opponents and even sarin-gassed a subway.
Gotta wonder if there was some kind of mental manipulation going on since he was so outspoken against the CCP. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Yep. China would be my second guess. Actually first guess, but police have made cryptic comments about ‘a certain group’ and there is a history of cults getting violent.
Almost certainly a Miroku .38.
This is like a 19th century assassination.
Seems that national leaders named Abe have a 100% mortality rate.
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No, but it could be brain science.
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