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> It's more likely to see some malfunctioning tech, than experience a real gun fired. And with all the smoke, that's what people probably thought at first, that some tech went haywire.

What the hell did he shoot him with it, a relic musket from a Sengoku Jidai display? I don't think I've ever seen or heard anything like that outside of military battle reenactments, with all that smoke it sounds like a cannon more than a gun.

Abenomics would always end up this way, Japan has been facing an ACTUAL existential crisis since the end of the bubble era. You know you messed up when you made these people go from Karoshi to assassination.




I read elsewhere that authorities think the gun was homebuilt as guns are so rare and hard to get in Japan.


It was literally two pipes strapped to what looks like a block of wood.


It's a self-made gun.


> It's a self-made gun.

I guess that sort of makes sense, but even then DD's Liberator from 8 years ago was a far better option to go for here.


"better option" in what possible way?

I'm very sorry to say this homemade gun did exactly the job it was intended to do.

Terrible news. :(


You're forgetting that he also had to make his own ammo. A black powder shotgun is the easiest firearm to make from scratch if you have that constraint.




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