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eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I bet the hitman was hired by the aggrieved parent of a child that was forced to die for profit. Dolla dolla bill.
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eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I bet the hitman was hired by the aggrieved parent of a child that was forced to die for profit. Dolla dolla bill.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wait, is the consensus now that it was a hitman, and not just someone with some luck, skill, and an axe to grind?
eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Whichever you prefer. My 2 cents is that it’s probably a hitman. But it doesn’t matter, does it.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Found a video, and yeah, it does really look like it was a pro
Infynis@midwest.social 1 month ago
And he immediately fled on a hard-to-track vehicle into an area with low surveillance. He might not have been hired, but he almost definitely knew what he was doing
Sailing7@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Where in the hell did you find an uncut version?
Every search on public search engines I’ve tried only link to public media - which cut before the shooter starts shooting.
simplejack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Most of my knowledge about hitmen comes from watching Bourne movies and playing Hitman Go on the toilet.
I’m going to assume that I probably don’t know what a real professional looks like.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
From what we know about real hitmen, they tend to be unsettling, since a willingness to murder people is at minimum a sign of an indifference towards life.
They often buy not always have personality traits in common with serial killers.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I saw that he went through a starbucks. If he had something to drink there then he is as good as caught and probably not a hitman. There are almost no US citizens that cant be identified through DNA.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 month ago
If he chucked them into a public garbage can then they won’t be able to get anything useful from the items. They’ll be so contaminated that you can’t get a clean sample.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
This is NYPD we’re talking about, these will be super useful for arresting and convicting someone that some cop doesn’t like
Killer_Tree@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Tell that to the Grim Sleeper!
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 month ago
An unclean sample won’t be useful in court, but it will be useful to the investigation. When that contaminated sample comes back to 4 people who don’t match the description, and two people who do, the investigation narrows to those two suspects. When they finally do find the guy, they can go back and re-interpret the rest of their evidence in 20/20 hindsight before taking it to court.
About the only way this guy isn’t going to get caught is if investigators are selectively incompetent, and/or the general public realizes it needs to “I’m Spartacus” the investigators.
mkwt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It seems he had to clear multiple malfunctions, and that suggests his firearm was poorly setup with the suppressor.
Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m also of the mind that knowing the limitations of his setup, he trained around his need to manually cycle his weapon. In the video, he did so smoothly and efficiently without any perceptible panic in his movements.
mkwt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That seems entirely feasible.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Curous to know more about this as a person with very little understanding of the actual functionality of guns
Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So, many older pistol designs used a barrel in a fixed position in relation to the pistols frame. Due to this configuration, the added weight of a suppressor hanging from the barrel does not impede the mechanical operation of the slide cycling.
Modern pistol designs utilize variations of John Brownings tilting barrel design. Because the barrel tilts during the cycling of the pistol, the weight of the suppressor interrupts the movement of the barrel and slide preventing a full stroke of the slide to eject the spent case and feed another round from the magazine. Not good.
In response, something called a Nielsen device was developed, basically a cylinder with a spring in it that encourages the pistol slide to fully cycle. These are sometimes referred to as a “piston” or “booster”.
Suppressors are heavily regulated by the ATF, and id have to guess that when seeking one on the grey or black market, or manufacturing your own, a Nielsen device is not easy to replicate with crude means, nor easy to find on the street.
TL:DR dude was missing a part that makes a pistol work more gooder with a suppressor.
Source: I gun.
MrVilliam@lemm.ee 1 month ago
In a normal, unsuppressed semiautomatic pistol gunshot, you pull the trigger, a precise little pin strikes the back-center of a bullet, this causes the gunpowder in the back of the bullet to spark and ignite and explode. The projectile portion of the bullet rides the wave of the explosion at supersonic speed down the barrel of the gun, which determines the direction of the path. There is an initial increase of backpressure of gas between the projectile and the back of the barrel, but semiautomatic weapons make use of this to push back the slide, expelling the spent casing and that gas and allowing the spring in the magazine to push the next round into place for the next shot, also significantly reducing recoil in the process.
Suppressors (or “silencers”) work by slowing the bullet down and altering the propulsion gas path. Subsonic speeds means no sonic boom. The downside is that you must manually cycle each round yourself, and you will likely experience more recoil per shot.
Afaik, suppressors are pretty damn hard to legally obtain, so my knowledge of them is a combination of my firsthand accounts with my unsuppressed guns, secondhand accounts of suppressors, a moderate understanding of physics, and some guesswork. I could be wrong about some of this, but this is my general understanding that I carry around with me.
Poots@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I wonder if the gun jammed up because of weak grip tbh. Ever shot a .45 and had it jam? It’s most likely because the gun is too powerful for your grip - the slide doesn’t move back and forth properly and then you have to clear the jam like dude does in the video.
Anyway, reason for jamming aside, dude was committed/practiced, but I don’t think he’s ‘catching casings’ like others initially suggested. This wasn’t that smooth.
Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 1 month ago
See my comments below. I’m pretty convinced he was manually cycling his slide because his suppressor, whether homemade or street sourced, lacked a Nielsen device or “piston” or “booster”