TactiSMART 036: James Bond Needs a New Assassination Gun: Revolver Uber Allies

Ironic as it may seem, there is one role the revolver can do better than automatics: CLOSE-RANGE ASSASSINATION.

One of the frustrating things trying to reason with JFK Assassination Hobby Horse weenies is their nerdish lack of life common sense and when delving into the world of dangerous men who kill with sophisticated means are in WAY OVER THEIR HEADS getting themselves killed--the long list of naive liberal-types murdered by the CIA who group-ambush-murdered President Kennedy in broad daylight in Dulles, Texas have no trouble killing the Dorothy Kilgallens of this world. Even the sexy Dallas stripper played by the lovely Lolita Davidovitch in Vietnam combat veteran, Oliver Stone's "JFK" knew this. This is why James Bond Citizens (JBCs) with spy, police and military skills are needed to act as a BONDSHIELD to bodyguard naive researchers. 

Revolver Evidentiary Stealth

This fatal ignorance when its not getting themselves killed infects their shoddy research. The generic JFK murder conspiracy has Red Herring Patsy (RHP) Lee Oswald leaving the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) for his boarding house room where he grabs a .38 revolver for expected U.S. Government arrest/persecution--even though later reports say its firing pin was faulty and wouldn't even fire. Around this time, corrupt Dallas policeman James Tippett pulls up to the boarding house and is shot in his patrol car by 2 x men--one with an automatic--yet an eyewitness says one used a REVOLVER and then absurdly dumped the spent cases from its cylinder when he didn't have to. IF THIS WASN'T TO FRAME OSWALD FOR TIPPETT'S MURDER, what more can you do? Orange spray-paint "Oswald did this" on Tippett's body?

The point of the revolver as a murder weapon is that IT DOES NOT EJECT SPENT SHELL CASINGS like an automatic, eliminating these as forensic evidence clues for the police. 

JFK's brother Robert Kennedy (RFK) was murdered a few years later by the CIA employing the Security Guard Thane Caesar as the shooter and MKULTRA-hypnotized Sirhan Sirhan as the patsy--still in prison by the way--both using .38 REVOLVERS that retained their spent shell casings. Caesar's casings were ignored while Sirhan's were ballistically matched allegedly to the bullets recovered from RFK's head (yeah, right).  

combatreform.org/THEJFKRESEARCHSITE

Revolver Reliability--YES or NO?

Its been proven that both revolvers and automatic pistols jam and fail to fire if dirty. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3CMsowzTEA

Bad news for Lucas/Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" who had at one time a more firepower-offering FN Hi-Power 9mm automatic fire in the bar fight scene in the beginning of "Raiders of the Lost Ark". 

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark

As seen in the Ravenwood Bar shootout, Jones's secondary handgun is a Browning Hi-Power. It was one of Browning's last designs and was on the drawing board in 1925. The P35, made by Fabrique Nationale in Belgium, was a fairly common gun in the hands of the Nazis but not until WWII broke out. It is unlikely but not impossible that Jones would carry this gun in 1936, just one year after manufacturing began (it would be twenty years before the Hi-Power would be commercially available for sale in the United States). Indy was originally envisioned as carrying a Colt 1911. At the time, 9mm blanks were the most reliable, so the filmmakers used a Hi-Power instead. Jones loses this particular gun in the fire at the Raven Bar in Nepal.

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The reliability issue in close-range assassinations is not dirt because the professional hit man should have his pistol clean and concealed to the point of its usage. The problem is NOISE STEALTH which is best attained firing tiny but sub-sonic (under 1027 FPS) .22 Long Rifle (LR) cartridges that don't give off a speed of sound breaking report. The slower you make the .22 LR go, the less power to force back the slide on an automatic resulting in a stoppage when you may need several shots like the Israelis pretending to be Ugandan dictator and IDF jump wings wearer, Idi Amin's driver/bodyguards shot the sentry beginning the Entebbe Raid in 1976. The Israeli MOSSAD issues Beretta .22 LR pistols to its agents but being rimmed cartridges that don't stack well in magazines, this James Bond gun with silencer in the Fleming books is known to jam. 

James Bond's .22LR with Silencer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IdBe2G62yc&list=RDtU98uP7pXA8&index=21

The solution to prevent rimfire cartridge bad stacking jamming is to use a REVOLVER where each sub-sonic .22LR has its own place in the cylinder and is manually-fired by trigger action by human muscle energy--rather than dubious gas and/or recoil action generated by the cartridge. You might say use more Kinetic Energy (KE), powerful 9mm x 19mm Luger rimless cartridges in a fabulous KelTec PF9 sub-compact--but Bond would have to screw-on a silencer to muffle the gunfire sound leaving the barrel even with sub-sonic rounds--and there are indeed revolvers that shoot 9mm available, too that will not cough up spent cartridge casings to help sexy Marg Helgenberger CSIs from picking up a forensic trail. A 9mm silenced revolver firing sub-sonic ammunition would be an option to sound-decibel-compare against a smaller .22LR revolver without silencer firing slow ammo.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjGNgYEpWmA

The Ideal Spy Killer Revolver?

Working with the minimalist .22 LR sub-sonic cartridges so there's less noise and no "can" suppressor to hide, the auto also runs into trouble firing successive shots because they are often not powerful enough to work the slide action. In contrast, the manually-powered revolver using shooter muscles is cartridge energy agnostic; even the weak 370 FPS Aguila Super Calibri rounds powered only by the primer (no gunpowder) can be rapid-fired through a finger-powered revolver. By comparison, I have been hit by plastic BB air soft rifles @ 400 FPS without any damage. The hammer-less, Ruger LCS double-action revolver with 9 shots seems ideal for concealed carry and snag-free presentation for firing at close-range targets. 

CCI Quiet .22 Ammunition Noise Level Demo Comparison to Regular .22LR & .22SR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-HFmYKzhx8

Supersonic vs. Subsonic .22LR UNSUPPRESSED Sound Comparison

UNsuppressed vs. Suppressed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uEy8eV1tAQ

How Quiet are CCI .22LR Quiets--without a suppressor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5SPWHw8yY

Air Pellet Gun: 80 decibels

.22LR CCI Quiet: 81 decibels

Lawn Mower: 130 decibels

A visible green laser and/or red dot collimator sight would help with fast reflex and possibly night aiming/shot placement--which is critical with such weak KE bullets. An one-time-use, 3D printed, all-plastic version of the Ruger LCS and plastic sub-sonic .22LR cartridges inside that can go through metal detectors not noticed would be helpful, too. John Malkovitch's killer in "In the Line of Fire" uses a plastic gun to sneak through security checkpoints.  

As stated before in an earlier TactiSMART article, the Self-Phone Look-a-like Gun (SFLG) firing a single or pair of sub-sonic .22LR rounds could conceal itself to get through security checkpoint x-rays offering no "gun" outline but its James Bond shooter had better be very skilled at making the shot(s) count "Quantum of Solace"-style and the target un-body armored for the assassination to work. 007 would need back-up shooter help to evade security bodyguard return fire kill/capture or carry a stealth-is-gone PLAN B weapon like the PF9 whose carry compromises his stealth getting into shooting position against a VIP. If 007 double-taps his target with the upgraded Ruger LCS, he still has 7 shots to disable nearby security for his get-away.     

Bond leaves only the bullets he's shot into his target with only the sound of a small crack or two. With no one alerted if the VIP is hit without bodyguards, 007 is able to escape the scene at a normal walking pace drawing no attention from unusual KE motion. If Bond wants to run to effect faster separation distance he could dress in a jogging suit and carry his BONDgun in an ankle holster so no gun outline shows from a waist carry. If his BONDgun is all plastic, he could at a safe location burn it all up in a fire eliminating it as a possible crime scene weapon. No barrel with lands & grooves like in the opening scenes of most Bond films to potentially match up with the striations of the tiny .22LR bullets at the crime scene. If the cartridge cases are plastic, too and burn-up they are eliminated as forensic evidence--even though hammer marks on rimfire cases are not very gun-specific.      

James Bond is REAL. 

NOTES 

https://www.jackweigand.com/Ruger-Revolver-Mini-Mount.html

WEIG-A-TINNY® RUGER Revolver Mini Scope Mount

NOTE ABOUT THIS MOUNT: This mount does not fit flush on all revolver models. There is a gap in the front on some applications.

RUGER scope mount WEIG-A-TINNY® Remove the rear sight and install this versatile WEIG-A-TINNY® style base, scope mount in just minutes. Uses existing rear sight elevation screw hole and sight spring pocket for mounting.

Oversize recoil lug prevents the scope mount from shifting even when shooting full-house, magnum loads. 

Accepts all Weaver-style attaching points and Picatinny accessories. 2-1/2" long, available in black or silver, matte anodized finish, weighs 1 ounce. 

Attaching screws are supplied, mounting screw is 6-48 thread, set screw is 8-32.

Installation Video   What WEIG-A-TINNY tm is

*Fits many RUGER revolvers with adjustable sights.

CAUTION: We do not suggest sights weighing over 3.5 ounces for this scope mount.

Does Not fit the SP-101 Models

Does Not fit the Ruger Super Redhawk Models

Does Not fit the Ruger Blackhawk "Flat Top" Models

Models known to not fit flush in the front

Blackhawk, New Model Super Blackhawk, Single Six, GP-100 in .22LR Only

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Semper

https://www.combatreform.org/2LTMichaelSparksUSMCR.htm

Airborne!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRaE3UEags

http://www.combatreform.org/LieutenantMichaelSparksUSAR.htm

Commander Ian Fleming RNVR 1939-51 wrote the James Bond 007 books/movies for the Information Research Division of MI6-SIS who he worked for as a Master Spy under journalistic cover from 1933-39 and 1945-1964 when he was murdered (as concluded by legendary investigative reporter, Jim Marrs to me) to prevent him publicly condemning the Warren Commission white wash of the CIA's group ambush murder of his friend, President John F. Kennedy.  

James Bond is REAL.