Two cylinder-like metals, tied up with black tape. That was all it took to shoot Shinzo Abe (67), the ex-Prime Minister of Japan, with a homemade firearm during a speech in the city of Nara. The advance of do-it-yourself weapons or converted alarm pistols seems unstoppable, ballistics expert Erik De Durpel also notes. “You can easily kill someone with such a weapon up to ten meters away.”
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