Homemade Gun Used to Kill Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

There is more information at each of the links below than I have included here.

Impro Guns is up first, because they have the best photos. Gun used to Assassinate Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

The improvised zip gun built and used by 41 year old army veteran Tetsuya Yamagami to assassinate former the former Japanese Prime Minister appears to be muzzle-loaded and electronically initiated. It appears to consist of two threaded gas pipes with end caps drilled to enable insertion of a wire which may be connected to a broken bulb or improvised electric match filled with black powder or match-head shavings to initiate a main propellant charge.

A photo of another weapon (apparently from the suspects home) is more elaborate, though much larger. Click thru for that photo, and a closeup of the firearm used in the assassination.

A commentor at Impro Guns notes that the security detail assigned to Abe didn't seem to be on top of things.

Tam at View from the Porch is up next: You Can't Uninvent The Wheel.

The only difference between it and a medieval handgonne is the construction material and the fact that it's fired by electronic ignition, probably a battery shorting across some steel wool, rather than a burning fuse.

Everything you need to make it is at Lowe's or Home Depot.

Finally The Other McCain: Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe Assassinated With ‘Improvised Firearm’.

It’s not as if would-be assassins are so numerous that we must be eternally vigilant, but as the shooting of Shinzo Abe illustrates, it is difficult to prevent a truly determined killer: Where there’s a will, there’s a way. You outlaw gun ownership, and some murderous kook will manufacture a homemade weapon.

As homemade weapons go, this one is fairly simple.

Oh, and Biden and Company have decided that this is another excuse to talk about gun violence.