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Interestingly, some sources are reporting he was shot with a improvised shotgun. These are very easy to make if you can acquire bullets -- a strong pipe, a nail
by dj_mc_merlin 4y ago
Interestingly, some sources are reporting he was shot with a improvised shotgun. These are very easy to make if you can acquire bullets -- a strong pipe, a nail and a cap are all you need. Where did he procure bullets from though, I wonder?
- daneel_w 4y agoThe correct term is a CARTRIDGE. The bullet is the projectile attached at the end. Perhaps he used home-made black powder (since people reported dense white smoke), but how he fashioned primers or something else to ignite it with is beyond me.
- hunterb123 4y agoIt was a homemade electric ignition (ie, a battery, electrodes, and a switch) You can see the battery here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXH0s0YXoAAehab?format=jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXH0s0YXoAAehab?format=jpg
- yellow_lead 4y agoSome on Twitter have speculated he made the bullet as well - due to the unnaturally large amount of smoke that was seen after firing.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 4y agoSpent shells are fairly easy to get hold of and refill.
- Morgawr 4y agoFWIW while guns are extremely regulated here in Japan, they aren't flat out illegal or "unobtainable". I'm no expert wrt bullets but I imagine if there's a way to procure a gun, people must be able to buy bullets too. From there, you just need a bit of smuggling around/blackmarket stuff.
- daneel_w 4y agoSome years ago in Denmark, at a European championships shooting sports event, I met a Japanese competitor who mentioned that they must return every single spent casing from their previous purchase of ammunition before being cleared for a new purchase. He underlined that it's causing a lot of trouble in certain shooting disciplines, with marksmen ending up manically searching for their empty casings at the range, and that even the Japanese military is subjected to regulations forcing them to leave not a single spent casing around. Unlike how it's done in every country here in Europe, they apparently regulate/count ammunition sales down to each individual cartridge.
- Sebb767 4y agoThere is apparently a picture of the weapon used: https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1545287793236115456 https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/154528779323611545... Looks very improvised indeed.
- haunter 4y agoThere is a higher quality picture where you can see it had electronic ignition https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXH0s0YXoAAehab?format=jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXH0s0YXoAAehab?format=jpg
- hsn915 4y agoHe served in the self defense forces for three years.
- Anon4Now 4y agoYou mean shells? He may not have had any. I work with an old guy who set out to make his own "shotgun" when he was 9. He took a piece of plumbing pipe with an end cap, drilled two holes near the end for the electrodes (pencil lead), and then packed it with a few hundred match heads and some BB's. He ran wire from the electrodes to his safety spot behind a berm, and touched it off with a battery. It blew apart his target, and he said the smoke could be smelled across the entire farm. If a 9 year old could figure it out in the 1950's, I'm sure an adult, hell bent on murder, could figure it out today.
- sschueller 4y agoYes, and it wasn't 3d printed like the "scary" stories we keep reading about. If you start banning 3d printers you may as well ban Home depot or anywhere you can buy a metal pipe.