I’m sure this will result in calls for commonsense plumbing control.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been assassinated. And the assassin used an evil “ghost gun.”
The assassin of Shinzo Abe has been identified as 41-year-old Yamagami Tetsuya, who used a homemade black powder shotgun.
No Ghost Gunner CNC mill.
No 3D-printer.
No unfinished receiver.
No “parts kit.”
No ammunition to register and regulate.
From that picture and description, it looks like some pipes, a board, and a lot of electrical tape. They specify “black powder,” so I imagine the assassin made that, too. No word on the projectiles, but I don’t think he’d have had much trouble finding ball bearings or other round shot.
Japan has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the world, and it still could not stop a killer with 1950s homebrew technology.
So what will the victim-disarmers try now? NFA tax stamps for plumbing and electrical supplies?
A ban on charcoal?
Well, they’d probably like that last one. Of course, to enforce it, it you’d need to ban trees and combustion.
To regulate the nitrates, they’d have to ban urination. Tricky, that.
Sulfur is a bit tougher unless you live near a sulfur spring; but there’s always drywall for the chemically-inclined.
The rights-haters would need to ban technology that’s been around for more than a thousand years. That should work well.
Then they’s have to figure out what to do about bows.
Will, meet way.
— D. Dietz
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I made some home-brew black powder in a high school chemistry class. It was easy.
I used a LOT of railroad fusees (now road safety flares) to make powder for my rocket motors. I couldn’t afford the motors sold in stores. That, charcoal, and saltpeter were a tricky combo to learn, but my supply of all was easy.
I’m thinking I seriously wasted that time working on cheesecake…It could have been more usefully spent.