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Breaking Japan ex-prime minister Abe taken to hospital after apparent shooting -NHK
mystery-ak:
Pictured: ‘Electrically Fired’ DIY Shotgun Used to Assassinate Shinzo Abe
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Police say they found multiple homemade guns and explosives when they searched the suspect Tetsuya Yamagami’s house.
Dan Ladden-Hall
News Correspondent
Updated Jul. 08, 2022 4:31PM ET
Published Jul. 08, 2022 11:01AM ET
The world reacted with horror and shock at the cold-blooded assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday. In a country that has virtually no gun violence, what made the crime even more unusual was the strange, seemingly homemade double-barreled weapon used by the shooter.
Abe was giving a campaign speech in the city of Nara, in southern Japan, when he was shot in the neck and heart at close range. The alleged gunman—named by local authorities as 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami—was photographed throwing a homemade firearm to the ground before being tackled by security officials.
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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Right_in_Virginia:
Michelle Ye Hee Lee
@myhlee
The first bullet did not hit Abe; he turned around to look back at the gunman after hearing the bullet, and was hit by second bullet in his chest & neck, Nara police said.
Doctors said there were 2 wounds in his neck/chest area.
8:45 AM · Jul 8, 2022·Twitter Web App
Right_in_Virginia:
--- Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on July 08, 2022, 11:38:12 pm ---Michelle Ye Hee Lee
@myhlee
The first bullet did not hit Abe; he turned around to look back at the gunman after hearing the bullet, and was hit by second bullet in his chest & neck, Nara police said.
Doctors said there were 2 wounds in his neck/chest area.
8:45 AM · Jul 8, 2022·Twitter Web App
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libertybele:
--- Quote from: catfish1957 on July 08, 2022, 08:00:47 pm ---Same here.... Steely eye staredown on one side by the #1 and #3 ranked GDP against the #4 and #6.
Staunch capitalist v. squishy pseudo-socialist.
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Exactly.
libertybele:
--- Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on July 08, 2022, 09:46:12 pm ---In 2022, those who think the economic decisions of "left-leaning" governments are clueless are the clueless ones.... they are unable to call them "socialists" and recognize the policies are the plan. It's why we are going to lose.
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Yes, everything is going according to plan for the 'Great Reset'.
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