Hunters, Delta Force, Range Masters Etc. etc. have all opined with hearing large caliber, ITS A .308 ! ETC. ,etc. but thats not the case. Nobody came forward talking about a small calibre in and out without the MAX blood spread that was expected.
Until now. This was a small calibre .22 precision passenger side entrance , small driver side , with, gush , gush effect. Its physics man, or else we have a mask and skin suit squb job. Thats it. No splatter on the wall, no dramatic exit wound. .22
Until next time, its a white hat presentation so relax, normies have to wake up.
Many people don't realize the power of a one-shot air-pistol even at .177. I hear scoffing noises from the .45 crowd.
One can kill vermin and even hares with them. And it appears, humans, at close range - where there is a will, etc. Yeah. Even pellet pushers need to observe gun-safety, for obvious reasons. A small pellet can travel remarkably fast through flesh and bone - just saying.
That's why people have those types of guns on farms - in many countries, one does not even need a fire-arms licence, and the gun will do fine - accurate, fast, and quieter, compared to rim-fire, for example. But one has to load one pellet at a time. No problem. One only needs one pellet, hey.
Re: stopping power - in an assassination, the subject is generally not running towards the assailant. So, it's basically not that situation, of needing to stop an aggressive Filipino (oh and that's not racist - it's the reason the US Military adopted the '45, rather than the standard issue .38. The Arnis-trained guys were able to absorb many bullets, and keep charging with their double knives - so the military needed that magical stopping power).
In an assassination, all one needs is penetration power. There's plenty of that in an low-calibre airgun.
The small calibre makes it easier to hide the barrel, as well.
Also, the tech for those types of (scoff -) AIR-pistols has increased exponentially in recent years. There are so many advantages to taking up this sport, and the guns are very imaginative these days, and can be made to be hyper-accurate - with some know-how. And guess what? Those wee .177 are HARD to find, if one is hunting the grounds for a traditional 30 cal rim-fire bullet, that is. One could easily tread it into the ground, for example.
POI: Air guns can have magazines, too.
True, but not in all countries.
It's the US, we can have air machine guns and switchblade knives in most states. Switchblade were legal to own but illegal to carry here in Oklahoma,but since it's legal to carry a handgun with no permit,those laws made no sense and they changed them.
Some backward countries are taking away rights,but we are increasing them.
Sure thing. Just saying that airguns are a possiblity in this case. Don't know why people downdoot me for just sayin