seeing as it appears to be powered by sufficiently sized batteries, a nichrome wire is plenty enough to ignite home made & standard powders
its the same thing as a pipebomb, but made to go in a singular direction
Dunno, you'd have to ask the guy who built it. He may not have been aware of piezo or he may have found it easier to use batteries. But sure, he could have done that.
Personally I think it would be easier to get the battery system to work because you don't have to worry about a spark. A model rocket igniter or a piece of nichrome wire scavenged from a heater or hair dryer would be very reliable, it's much "hotter" and not as brief as a spark and it can't short out like a spark gap can.
The shorting risk doesn't exist for a potato gun because the fuel is a gas rather than electrically conductive grains of actual powder. The ability of the piezo to work repeatedly is nice for the potato gun but it's pointless for a weapon you're going to use exactly once.
He also could have used a mechanical igniter, like the striker used in gas lanterns. That's what old-timers used in potato guns before piezo became as common as it is now, but that also has its drawbacks. Honestly tons of things would work, he probably just did what was most familiar to him.
>he probably just did what was most familiar to him
Internet minmaxers have a bad habit of skipping over this as a reason people do things the way they do.
When they think you're crude, go technical. When they think you're technical, go crude. These days, though, you have to get technical before you can even aspire to crudeness.
I would love to see and hear this thing be tested, spitting a bukkake of ball bearings and smoke with no recognizable pattern, or just fricking detonating. Either way it would be fricking cool.
>no rail for optic >improper cable management >boxy design, can't even hold foregrip comfortably >tape in this day and age
Unusable garbage, good luck killing anyone with it
being asked to betray your cartoon wife is a huge insult, baka
Man, that guy really didn't want to have sex, huh?
the real reason was even worse
>Yamagami told investigators that he had shot Abe in relation to a grudge he held against the Unification Church (UC), a new religious movement to which Abe and his family had political ties, over his mother's bankruptcy in 2002.
>the only people who care about gays are religiousgays because their book told them so
not a big surprise
should just be LGB though, frick trannies and all the other bullshit alphabet soup that comes after it
South Korean cults are fricking insane, some neo-shamanism and traditional confucian ones make for some interesting reading that makes you question if Asians really live in the same reality as the rest of us.
Start reading about the "Unification Church", it's not as extreme as many but it's weird, and it's by far the biggest of its kind.
what is it with Asians and crazy Christian cults? worst Korea had a whole scandal recently that featured one too.
It's not just Asians, read about the stuff in South America, the Caribbean, and Africa too. In many places in the world missionaries spread Christianity but it ended up mingling with local beliefs. For example, Santeria, many kinds of Voudou, etc.
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>It's not just Asians, read about the stuff in South America, the Caribbean, and Africa too.
Yeah. I remember there was some Jonestown-tier suicide cult in Kenya just last year.
Abe wasn't part of the cult, the shooter just took his anger out on an easier target compared to actual high cult members.
what is it with Asians and crazy Christian cults? worst Korea had a whole scandal recently that featured one too.
It's the lack of a real distinct culture. Korea is one of the most lost depressing places on earth, wealth is worshiped as a god so its not surprising that cults worshiping money are so prevalent. >t. work for a Korean company
Brandon Herrera did a recreation of this gun including making his own own black powder. It got taken down by youtube but it's still on his reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/brandonherrara/comments/waty18/i_dont_know_if_this_will_be_better_quality_than
Not that angry when you have nothing to lose. How do people not realize this when so many events like this have happened? In his case, he had no friends, ruined family, life-long trauma from cultist parents, etc. His entire life is ruled by the cult's presence. It's the same feeling that drives incels to go to the gym, get hench, and get laid. They have nothing, there's literally no other choice and no point to doing anything else.
Angry enough that he decided to actually plan it out of sheer fricking will. Based on the dude's background and motive, this stuff was years in the making.
not very well but it gets the job done
seeing as it appears to be powered by sufficiently sized batteries, a nichrome wire is plenty enough to ignite home made & standard powders
its the same thing as a pipebomb, but made to go in a singular direction
Uhm, that's gonna be a sneed from me.
Looks like a cynobite gun, all wrapped up like that
I know nothing about this sort of thing, but why have a battery at all? Why not a piezoelectric switch? Like a potato gun
He couldn't test it beforehand so I guess he went with an overpowered igniter to make sure it would fire.
He tested it several times before the assassination
Dunno, you'd have to ask the guy who built it. He may not have been aware of piezo or he may have found it easier to use batteries. But sure, he could have done that.
Personally I think it would be easier to get the battery system to work because you don't have to worry about a spark. A model rocket igniter or a piece of nichrome wire scavenged from a heater or hair dryer would be very reliable, it's much "hotter" and not as brief as a spark and it can't short out like a spark gap can.
The shorting risk doesn't exist for a potato gun because the fuel is a gas rather than electrically conductive grains of actual powder. The ability of the piezo to work repeatedly is nice for the potato gun but it's pointless for a weapon you're going to use exactly once.
He also could have used a mechanical igniter, like the striker used in gas lanterns. That's what old-timers used in potato guns before piezo became as common as it is now, but that also has its drawbacks. Honestly tons of things would work, he probably just did what was most familiar to him.
>he probably just did what was most familiar to him
Internet minmaxers have a bad habit of skipping over this as a reason people do things the way they do.
I doubt a spark that lasts a couple of milliseconds would set it off, better to have a heating element that gets hot enough to insure ignition.
I wish the guy would have used his other gun. Imagine the broadside going off on camera.
what's old is new and what's new is old.
What is has already been. And what was done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.
When they think you're crude, go technical. When they think you're technical, go crude. These days, though, you have to get technical before you can even aspire to crudeness.
I would love to see and hear this thing be tested, spitting a bukkake of ball bearings and smoke with no recognizable pattern, or just fricking detonating. Either way it would be fricking cool.
So long as one end of the pipe is open it's not going to fricking detonate, ever.
sure, but why would we think one end of the pipe is open? dude probably capped the ends just like in the one he actually used.
>no rail for optic
>improper cable management
>boxy design, can't even hold foregrip comfortably
>tape in this day and age
Unusable garbage, good luck killing anyone with it
>good luck killing anyone with it
Anon
this the thing that killed Abe isnt it
No, Abe was shot with a Philadelphia Deringer.
heh
Man, that guy really didn't want to have sex, huh?
being asked to betray your cartoon wife is a huge insult, baka
I suppose. Maybe that is why I am still single, I compare everyone to Tamamo No Mae and Barghest, of course no 3dpd can measure up to either.
the real reason was even worse
>Yamagami told investigators that he had shot Abe in relation to a grudge he held against the Unification Church (UC), a new religious movement to which Abe and his family had political ties, over his mother's bankruptcy in 2002.
Based, fricks religious cults and the morons that support them.
which cult are you a part of?
>the only people who care about gays are religiousgays because their book told them so
not a big surprise
should just be LGB though, frick trannies and all the other bullshit alphabet soup that comes after it
Atheists vote against gun rights more than any other group, enjoy your prolapsed anuses though.
what is it with Asians and crazy Christian cults? worst Korea had a whole scandal recently that featured one too.
kahr is literally a cult arms company
based koreans
South Korean cults are fricking insane, some neo-shamanism and traditional confucian ones make for some interesting reading that makes you question if Asians really live in the same reality as the rest of us.
can you provide me some reading material on this? ill need something new once im done with the talmud
Start reading about the "Unification Church", it's not as extreme as many but it's weird, and it's by far the biggest of its kind.
It's not just Asians, read about the stuff in South America, the Caribbean, and Africa too. In many places in the world missionaries spread Christianity but it ended up mingling with local beliefs. For example, Santeria, many kinds of Voudou, etc.
>It's not just Asians, read about the stuff in South America, the Caribbean, and Africa too.
Yeah. I remember there was some Jonestown-tier suicide cult in Kenya just last year.
Abe wasn't part of the cult, the shooter just took his anger out on an easier target compared to actual high cult members.
It's the lack of a real distinct culture. Korea is one of the most lost depressing places on earth, wealth is worshiped as a god so its not surprising that cults worshiping money are so prevalent.
>t. work for a Korean company
Would have written it off an complete junk and useless except that it was used to kill a leader of a major country.
inaccurately.
Brandon Herrera did a recreation of this gun including making his own own black powder. It got taken down by youtube but it's still on his reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/brandonherrara/comments/waty18/i_dont_know_if_this_will_be_better_quality_than
> % of atheists who ...
you forgot to shop the line below you dumb ape
kys
What waste of tabe wood.
Should have put it in tin foil first and not on the table. IDIOT
but why not just buy a real gun instead of going through all the trouble to build this monstrosity
Japan. The killer's grandma got screwed over by a cult Abe had connections to and he had a hard time getting real guns.
how angry do you have to be to dedicated so much time and resource to build this clunker just to kill a guy?
time and resource? that thing could be cobbled together in half a day.
being angry enough to commit murder seems like the bigger obstacle.
Not that angry when you have nothing to lose. How do people not realize this when so many events like this have happened? In his case, he had no friends, ruined family, life-long trauma from cultist parents, etc. His entire life is ruled by the cult's presence. It's the same feeling that drives incels to go to the gym, get hench, and get laid. They have nothing, there's literally no other choice and no point to doing anything else.
Angry enough that he decided to actually plan it out of sheer fricking will. Based on the dude's background and motive, this stuff was years in the making.