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- Nov 30, 2022
Assassination pistols can be hollywood quiet, but they need to be specialty built for it to work and even then it only works for a few shots as the silencer degrades.
The absolute gold standard for such pistols is the Welrod made by the brits in WW2 and copied by many. There is actually a modern version of it for sale called the B&T VP9 but there is 0 chance the dude used it here (it's mega expensive for a pistol, and it's pretty controlled. It's only really a thing for veterinarians who need a way to put animals like horses or oxen down quick without loud ass shooting sounds spooking people and other animals).
What the dude actually did here in my opinion is he saw the Welrod and similar silences pistols, and took that into account. Making a single use silencer isn't that hard, and you could with some planning make something that works for 6 or 7 shots. Then you need subsonic ammo (silencers are near worthless if the bullet just causes a sonic boom anyway) which he could have made himself by hand loading powder onto the casings.
This however would make the recoil system in almost every semi-auto pistol not work, as they need the full kick of the bullet to cycle. The shooter seems to have known this and prepared, as he didn't hesitate once he shot to put his hand onto the gun and manually cycle. He spends no time at all before manually pulling the slide on every shot, meaning he knows the underloaded bullets could misfire or if fired wouldn't cycle.
Tl;Dr this dude is either a professional, or he did his homework very well and put a lot of thought into it.
