I watched it and now I’m chilling
He racks the slide immediately after the first shot so it does appear he’s running a manual action set up (either a manual action gun or just a standard semi auto and working the slide each time).
After the second shot he appears to have some trouble but he calmly fixes it and I can’t tell if he shoots a third time or is satisfied the guy is allready dead.
Must have missed some because the news is reporting 9mm casings recovered at the scene
I think he was using a slide lock pistol, with a silencer that’s the closest you can get to a quiet gun.
So, I don't think its a 'slide lock' pistol, and here's why:
I’m pretty sure they don’t exist.
Perhaps you or someone else is aware of modern, magazine fed pistols which intentionally fire to a slide lock state with each shot, but afaik, that only ever happens with a faulty, malfunctioning semi-automatic handgun.
Usually you have to intentionally draw the slide back and then engage a slide lock, for all but the final round in the magazine.
A handgun that is designed, intentionally, to slide lock on each shot, despite having a magazine, seems very silly to me.
It would functionally be a single action, non semi-auto weapon, akin to a single action revolver that requires you to pull the hammer back before each shot.
Only benefit I can think of is that you control when spent casings are ejected… but this guy doesn’t grab his brass, so he’s not making use of that.
Further, having the slide lock to an open position does not make the gunshot any quieter.
How could it?
The gasses and spent casing would eject from the ejection port as the slide moves to the locked back position.
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Not sure where you got this idea.
What I think is happening actually happening is that he’s using subsonic ammunition in a normal semi-auto handgun, with a threaded barrel and supressor.
Subsonic ammo exists for many common firearm calibers, it usually has a significantly lower grain (less gunpowder).
Benefit of this is that the gunshot is much quieter…
Downside is, depending on your weapon/ammo combination, this may not provide enough actual explosive force in the chamber to actually cycle a semi-auto action, so you have to work the action (in this case, the slide) yourself each time.
(That and your effective range, accuracy and velocity are reduced, but thats usually not a problem for point blank situations like this.)
After watching the extremely low quality video several times, I think this is actually what is occuring.
The slide does not appear to stay locked back after firing, for any of the shots.
For every shot, he has to fully cycle the slide, often multiple times, reaching down toward a pistol whose slide does not appear to be extended.
This behavior is quite commonplace when using subsonic rounds in a modern handgun.
From the size of the gun, it’s so small that it might not even be 9mm.
It could be .38, maybe even .22?
It’s also possible it’s some Shinzo Abe assassin style home-made boondoggle. The footage is pretty blurry, so it’d be hard to tell
