British MP Murdered with "Homemade" Gun, Knife

Ammoland ^ | 16 June, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

A British Labor MP has been murdered when she intervened in an altercation between two men, on of whom has been reported to have mental issues.  Witnesses at the scene reported that the gun used appeared “homemade”.  A knife was also used.  The MP was reportedly shot three times and stabbed several times.  From uk.businessinsider.com:

An eyewitness report given to the BBC said that Cox was attacked after becoming involved in an altercation between two men.

“There was a guy who was being very brave and another guy with a white baseball cap who he was trying to control and the man in the baseball cap suddenly pulled a gun from his bag,” the witness said.

The gun was “homemade” and large, according to multiple reports.

From sky.com:

“It looked like a gun from, I don’t know, the First World War or a makeshift, handmade gun. It’s not sort of like the kind of gun you see normally.”

From spiderfinance.com:

 Another witness told Sky that a man in white, dirty baseball cap
had been jostling with the MP before pulling out a gun. The gun
was “homemade,” according to multiple reports. 

Given the  low level of firearms awareness in the U.K., I have doubts about the witnesses ability to discern whether the gun was homemade or not.  On the other hand, homemade guns are fairly common in the U.K. because factory made guns are so tightly controlled. 

[marktwain]

“What a ridiculous transparent attempt to fabricate a martyr; nobody wants to acknowledge a meaningless death.”

Yes. But it was for a “good” cause, to keep the UK under the thumb of the EU bureaucrats, and to keep Muslim immigrants flooding into the country. /S

These people are deplorable. They are intent on destroying Western Civilization.

[Go_Trump_2016]

It is not even necessary to buy or make black powder. Hunters in the third world have been using safety match heads (which contain potassium chlorate) as a propellant for decades:

Filipino percussion homemade muzzleloading shotgun loaded with safety match heads and primed with homemade Armstrong mixture

Admittedly, black powder is a safer propellant than chlorate based propellants (less brisance), but they are still very effective for expedient homemade ammunition.

[Reverend Wright]

maybe

but 455 and 38 webley are obsolete ammo and almost unobtainable

maybe the shooter used 50+ year old ammo. Given the damp in england i am surprised it would work

[marktwain]

I shot 24 rounds of 60+ year old ammo the other day. It had been stored in a jar with a lid in a basement.

It worked as if it had been made yesterday.

This was in Wisconsin.

[Go_Trump_2016]

It seems unlikely that he used a revolver if what this article says is correct:

"Police arrested a 52-year-old former psychiatric patient named locally as Tommy Mair. According to witnesses, Mrs Cox’s killer used either an antique or a home-made gun which he calmly reloaded between shots. As she lay bleeding to death, he repeatedly kicked her before walking away, having stabbed a 77-year-old man who tried to intervene."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/16/labour-mp-jo-cox-shot-in-leeds-witnesses-report/

Let's hope it wasn't an antique pistol because otherwise the UK is likely to have yet another round of useless gun control laws which will confiscate some very valuable and historically important antique firearms from private collectors.

[Krosan]

The source is SPLC so they might very well be lying, but they claim the shooter was a long time supporter of US neo-nazi group National Alliance and had purchased a manual that included instructions for building pistols from them.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/16/alleged-killer-british-mp-was-longtime-supporter-neo-nazi-national-alliance

[kearnyirish2]

You’re right, but you can omit the “intent on” - they ARE destroying Western Civilization.