The Thing That Killed Shinzo Abe / The Contraption
On July 8th, 2022, a 41-year-old Japanese man assassinated the former prime minster of Japan Shinzo Abe during public speech with a homemade shotgun. On the same day, photograph of the home-crafted gun appeared in multiple news report about the assassination (shown below, left).
Abe’s killing haunts Japan with questions on homemade guns
Jul 11, 2022 · The 40-centimeter-long (16-inch) firearm that was used to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday as he campaigned for his ruling party in Nara, western Japan, looked crude, more like a propellant made of pipes taped together and filled with explosives.
The DIY gun used to kill Japan's Abe was simple to make, analysts …
Jul 9, 2022 · The man suspected of killing former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe with a hand-made gun on Friday could have made the weapon in a day or two after obtaining readily available materials such as...
Here’s What We Know About the ‘Homemade’ Gun that Killed Shinzo Abe
Jul 8, 2022 · Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was assassinated with a gun on the streets of Nara, Japan. The killing shocked the world and, especially, Japan—a country with strict gun laws and...
Expert: Gun used to kill Abe made with careful calculations
Jul 14, 2022 · Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Abe. Photos of the suspect at the scene in Nara show him holding what appears to be a handmade gun that fired two shots at...
Assassination of Shinzo Abe - Wikipedia
On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan and serving member of the Japanese House of Representatives, was assassinated while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Nara Prefecture.
As it happened: Shinzo Abe - suspect used handmade gun to kill …
The suspect in the assassination of Shinzo Abe used a handmade gun to kill Japan's former PM, police say Officers said they found several handmade weapons at the home of the suspect, Tetsuya ...
More details revealed on the gun, bullets used in Abe shooting
Jul 20, 2022 · Nara prefectural police believe Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, the murder suspect, used commercially available bullets with his homemade gun. The gun was seized at the scene where Abe was shot while...
Homemade gun used in assassination of Shinzo Abe; attack …
Jul 8, 2022 · Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed by an attacker wielding what police and other officials have described as a homemade gun, a rare shooting in a country with some of the...
What we know about the crude, homemade gun used in Shinzo Abe…
Jul 8, 2022 · Within hours of a 41-year-old suspect's arrest in the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with an improvised gun, police raided Tetsuya Yamagami's home Friday and found...