“Of course, it is too early to be definitive. “The prominent end caps towards the rear of the barrels may indicate a muzzle-loading design using separate-loading propellant and projectiles,” firearm expert N.R. The large amount of smoke present after the discharge of the weapon hints towards homemade ammunition. The sale of ammunition is also tightly controlled, making bullets and shells of all kinds hard to come by. Prospective gun owners then have to pass a firearms safety test and purchase a special locker for the weapon. In Japan, owning a weapon requires a battery of background checks, interviews with family members, and clearance by a medical doctor. Think of a matchlock musket that uses electricity to spark the firing mechanism instead of a fuse. It looks as if it was muzzle loaded and fired using a small electrical charge. The reason for this might be because of Japan’s restrictive gun laws and the potential need to use homemade ammunition as well as a homemade gun.īased on preliminary analysis by firearms experts, the weapon that killed Abe appears to be an older style weapon with some updated structures. The electronics hint at an electrical firing mechanism which would take a bit more time than machining two pieces of pipe to carry a shotgun shell. “The electrical circuit would be used to donate the presumed black powder, similar to a pipe bomb.” The video was set to the 1932 song Run Rabbit Run and showed footage of Russian soldiers appearing to be fired upon by missiles, artillery fire and snipers.“It’s a bit more complicated than a slam fire shotgun as he’s had to basically make an open ended pipe bomb with some from of improvised slug or ball bearings or similar,” Calibre Obscura, an arms researcher, told Motherboard. The Twitter page posted a 40-second video issuing an ultimatum to Russian soldiers and said they should leave Kherson Oblast in Ukraine or face death. The video, which was posted on the Calibre Obscura Twitter page, an organization that hosts a website. In recent days, Ukrainian forces have seized control of key cities such as Izyum and Kupyansk, forcing Russian soldiers to retreat.Įarlier this month, the Defense of Ukraine's Twitter page also took to mocking Russian soldiers for retreating in the face of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. The video was posted last week Friday and has since garnered more than 1.3 million views. The tank crash video comes as Ukraine has launched a surprise counteroffensive in the areas around Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city. The video was posted last week Friday and has since garnered more than 1.3 million views. A video mocking the retreat of Russian soldiers in Ukraine has gone viral on social media. Russian demining team members work to clear an area in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on July 13, 2022.

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