Yep, they're most likely just making shit up, or so incompetent they're grasping at straws.
There's literally no reason to believe that a weapon with a supressor ... means its a weapon with an integral (ie, built in) suppressor.
Tons of standard semi automatic pistols can be purchased with threaded barrels (or you can install an after market threaded barrel) and/or adapters that allow them to work with a seperately acquired suppressor.
Further, the specific thing they are suggesting is a VP9, which is basically a modern version of the British Welrod, used for special operations / underground resistance in WW2.
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These have basically a knob on the back of the slide, that requires you to turn it either clockwise or counter clockwise, to fully cycle the weapon.
This knob is not visually apparent in the video.
The shooter never seems to turn his hand/wrist as one would with this weapon.
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You can see that the slide, the whole top part of the handgun moves seperately from the supressor... this doesn't happen with a VP9.
You grab the knob, twist it and pull it pack, but it pulls out from inside of the frame of the weapon, looks totally different.
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The frame of a VP 9 / Station 6 / Whatever Welrod Design does not have a slide that makes up the top half of the weapon... it has a frame, and an internal bolt, basically.//
You can actually rule out a VP9 with the video evidence, jesus christ the NYPD is fucking stupid.
... Why would you assasinate someone at close range in full view of cameras with an extremely uncommon and expensive weapon... when you could easily use a medley of much more common, less expensive and harder to trace alternatives?
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The most likely explanation is that the guy was using subsonic ammo...
... (which he could have easily made himself by just getting normal ammo, prying open the cartridges and lowering the amount of gunpowder, then pressing the cartridge back together with a reloading press that costs like $30 on amazon... which actually makes more sense given that he obviously wrote words on the cartridges)...
... along with a probably older supressor, on basically any compatible semi auto pistol.
I saw a lot of people saying he's using an actual welrod and that's hilarious to me. Only 14,000 were ever made and the last known use was over 40 years ago. They're all in museums or collecting dust in storage. If it were an actual welrod someone would be able to figure out which museum piece is missing.
I do understand the impulse to mythologize this shooting though. It's the coolest thing to happen in the US in a very long time. We've been starved for Ws.
The VP9 and Station Six 9 are not literally WW2 Welrods.
They are basically the exact same design, produced in the modern era by B&T / Station Six, though modernized with minor changes like polymer grips.
Its like how the Browning 1911 was the US service pistol during WW2, but tons of different modern manufacturers produce modern versions of it.
Finding an actual working WW2 era Welrod with an intact, functional suppressor would basically be impossible now, as it uses a series of rubber wipes (basically just sheets of rubber) instead of machined baffles that modern suppressors use.
The rubber would almost certainly be rotted by now.
... If someone is saying this guy used a literal Welrod, they're even more stupid than the NYPD, who are almost certainly implying a VP9 or Station Six 9.
Yep, they're most likely just making shit up, or so incompetent they're grasping at straws.
There's literally no reason to believe that a weapon with a supressor ... means its a weapon with an integral (ie, built in) suppressor.
Tons of standard semi automatic pistols can be purchased with threaded barrels (or you can install an after market threaded barrel) and/or adapters that allow them to work with a seperately acquired suppressor.
Further, the specific thing they are suggesting is a VP9, which is basically a modern version of the British Welrod, used for special operations / underground resistance in WW2.
These have basically a knob on the back of the slide, that requires you to turn it either clockwise or counter clockwise, to fully cycle the weapon.
This knob is not visually apparent in the video.
The shooter never seems to turn his hand/wrist as one would with this weapon.
EDIT:
// You can see that the slide, the whole top part of the handgun moves seperately from the supressor... this doesn't happen with a VP9.
You grab the knob, twist it and pull it pack, but it pulls out from inside of the frame of the weapon, looks totally different.
Applogies for shit tier image but here ya go:
The frame of a VP 9 / Station 6 / Whatever Welrod Design does not have a slide that makes up the top half of the weapon... it has a frame, and an internal bolt, basically.//
You can actually rule out a VP9 with the video evidence, jesus christ the NYPD is fucking stupid.
... Why would you assasinate someone at close range in full view of cameras with an extremely uncommon and expensive weapon... when you could easily use a medley of much more common, less expensive and harder to trace alternatives?
...
The most likely explanation is that the guy was using subsonic ammo...
... (which he could have easily made himself by just getting normal ammo, prying open the cartridges and lowering the amount of gunpowder, then pressing the cartridge back together with a reloading press that costs like $30 on amazon... which actually makes more sense given that he obviously wrote words on the cartridges)...
... along with a probably older supressor, on basically any compatible semi auto pistol.
I saw a lot of people saying he's using an actual welrod and that's hilarious to me. Only 14,000 were ever made and the last known use was over 40 years ago. They're all in museums or collecting dust in storage. If it were an actual welrod someone would be able to figure out which museum piece is missing.
I do understand the impulse to mythologize this shooting though. It's the coolest thing to happen in the US in a very long time. We've been starved for Ws.
The VP9 and Station Six 9 are not literally WW2 Welrods.
They are basically the exact same design, produced in the modern era by B&T / Station Six, though modernized with minor changes like polymer grips.
Its like how the Browning 1911 was the US service pistol during WW2, but tons of different modern manufacturers produce modern versions of it.
Finding an actual working WW2 era Welrod with an intact, functional suppressor would basically be impossible now, as it uses a series of rubber wipes (basically just sheets of rubber) instead of machined baffles that modern suppressors use.
The rubber would almost certainly be rotted by now.
... If someone is saying this guy used a literal Welrod, they're even more stupid than the NYPD, who are almost certainly implying a VP9 or Station Six 9.
Yeah there have been people saying it's an actual British welrod.
Instead of the much more likely normal Glock with a funky surpressor