Former Japanese PM Abe Shot Dead During Speech

[Paladin]

Japan is a "gun free" police state... and "gun control" fails again:

Former Japanese PM Abe Shot Dead During Speech, Assassin Arrested

[n5wmk]

"Home made shotgun." Interesting. Just goes to show, no matter how strict a country's gun laws may be, that if a deranged person is determined enough, the end goal will be accomplished.

[NotRPB]

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[BigGuy]

From a Facebook page I follow. Supposedly the home made shotgun used to kill the PM.

[Paladin]

ShotGun.png

From a Facebook page I follow. Supposedly the home made shotgun used to kill the PM.

Yes. Metal tubes, duck tape, wood... probably black power, judging by all the smoke.

[BigGuy]

ShotGun.png

From a Facebook page I follow. Supposedly the home made shotgun used to kill the PM.

Yes. Metal tubes, duck tape, wood... probably black power, judging by all the smoke.

On another forum I belong too, somebody posted a better side shot of it. It had a pistol grip and what looked like batteries. They speculated, on the other forum, that the ignition was electric arc.

[philip964]

Not to complement a villain so horrible, but you could understand he was quite skilled at making guns.

Found in his house being carried by police after the assassination.

[n5wmk]

A bit of an analysis of the construction of the shotgun by Mark Serbu on YouTube

[surprise_i'm_armed]

Has the projectile been determined?

SIA

[Soccerdad1995]

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Don't give the ATF any ideas. They are already trying to regulate pieces of plastic (80% lowers / Bump stocks) that are incapable of discharging a projectile.

[Soccerdad1995]

In theory, a spring loaded nail, a piece of the appropriate diameter metal pipe, and a shotgun shell seems like all one would need. That plus some type of handle.

[The Annoyed Man]

An American friend of mine was shot in London after a pub brawl by a thug armed with a very similar weapon. Very fortunately, he was running away from the fight and was wearing a very heavy leather coat, and had opened up enough distance that the shot never broke any skin. It just left him with a nasty bruise in the middle of his back. England is, of course, another example of a country with very restrictive gun laws; and my friend's incident just one more example of how futile such laws are at disarming criminals, while being very effective at disarming decent people.

[philip964]

An American friend of mine was shot in London after a pub brawl by a thug armed with a very similar weapon. Very fortunately, he was running away from the fight and was wearing a very heavy leather coat, and had opened up enough distance that the shot never broke any skin. It just left him with a nasty bruise in the middle of his back. England is, of course, another example of a country with very restrictive gun laws; and my friend's incident just one more example of how futile such laws are at disarming criminals, while being very effective at disarming decent people.

I remember I think a Guy Richie film set in London. It was a Crime/drama/comedy. It seemed to have lots of people with guns and pig farms, and in one more amusing scene, a guy drew his replica gun on a guy with a real gun. The real gun guy then drew his weapon and said something like " my gun says Desert Eagle on the side, what does yours say?"

[BigGuy]

An American friend of mine was shot in London after a pub brawl by a thug armed with a very similar weapon. Very fortunately, he was running away from the fight and was wearing a very heavy leather coat, and had opened up enough distance that the shot never broke any skin. It just left him with a nasty bruise in the middle of his back. England is, of course, another example of a country with very restrictive gun laws; and my friend's incident just one more example of how futile such laws are at disarming criminals, while being very effective at disarming decent people.

I remember I think a Guy Richie film set in London. It was a Crime/drama/comedy. It seemed to have lots of people with guns and pig farms, and in one more amusing scene, a guy drew his replica gun on a guy with a real gun. The real gun guy then drew his weapon and said something like " my gun says Desert Eagle on the side, what does yours say?"

That was Jason Statham in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/

[NotRPB]

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Don't give the ATF any ideas. They are already trying to regulate pieces of plastic (80% lowers / Bump stocks) that are incapable of discharging a projectile.

cylindrical coils of metal (springs) may be next