Comments on: Craft-produced firearm used to assassinate Shinzo Abe

By: Goober

Goober — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:38:06 +0000

I think I read that the ignition system was far simpler, even, than suggested.

I’m told it was 000 steel wool shoved down the barrel first, into a bare electrical wire, so that when the circuit was completed, the steel wool ignited and subsequently ignited the powder charge.

I’d assume that this ignition method would cause a slight delay, but not enough to render the firearm unusable at close ranges.

You can try this yourself, just get some 000 steel wool and touch it to the terminals on a 9 volt battery. It ignites almost immediately.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:14:22 +0000

Proof that you can’t stop the signal. Knowledge of how firearms work is so widespread as to be unstoppable. Imagine what someone with some true shop class skills and the right equipment could have come up with.

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:55:47 +0000

If it was warrior caste men doing the assassination, the target wouldn’t have been Abe, who was all about IJA reborn.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 12:24:43 +0000

This is not a firearms story or a gun violence story. It is a story about political assassination and an attempt to influence public policy by violence. The Japanese army has a sordid history of using violence to control politicians, and they killed a PM back in 1936.

The real issue here is whether the military is back in the assassination business, or has someone else taken over the franchise.