About the fundamental human right to curiosity and reason.
How everybody's most basic freedoms are threatened by extremists and their assorted "causes".
Also, seeks to reclaim science and the right to reason as a vital human freedom.
Here is a link to the petition in question, and below that a few reasons why it might well be worth the bother of signing it, because doing so may produce interesting results on a surprising number of fronts. Medawar will also offer a suggestion for an alternative petition that might be tried, either if this one fails or, more usefully, as a concurrent effort to attract powerful attention in another quarter;
Andrew Tate faces 21 known charges in England, brought by Bedfordshire Police and Devon and Cornwall Police. In the past there have been criminal investigations into similar charges in Hertfordshire, these were not progressed as criminal cases but are now the subject of a civil lawsuit being brought by four victims.
For the tax-related charges brought by Devon and Cornwall Police, the investigating authority will be the HMRC (concerning documents filed with their Exeter Office) and the Economic Crime Unit in Newton Abbot. There is an unnamed third person facing charges: a "Tax Agent" for the Tate Brothers. If this is who Medawar thinks it is, the ECU people in Newton Abbot know him well and he's always willing to act for those unable or unwilling to visit his premises and check him out.
For the rape, assault, coercion, trafficking and Modern Slavery charges brought by Bedfordshire Police, the actual investigative body may have been the Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Major Crimes Unit, though it would be possible, but a little odd, for Bedfordshire Police to have proceeded entirely independently. This has not been made clear in media reports, but that may be due to prevailing poor journalistic standards as much as any policy issue. The historical case, which is now before the High Court as a civil claim, had victims of rape and false imprisonment, coercion etc. in both Hitchin (in Hertfordshire) and Luton (in Bedfordshire), so there would have to be a compelling reason for the joint Major Crimes Unit for those counties NOT to be involved.
Due to interventions by "The Trump Administration" (which do not seem to have been instigated by President Trump, who professed almost complete ignorance about the Tates when asked by a reporter he trusted) Andrew and Tristan Tate currently enjoy the right of free international travel to countries they see as safe, whilst awaiting trial in Romania under "house arrest" even if the house is in Florida or Dubai. The Governor of Florida does not agree with this and is doing everything he can to deter the Tates from returning to his State, other than to face criminal or civil proceedings there. Mr DeSantis does not share the Trump Administration's view of the Tates as saintly prisoners of conscience, largely because he does not share President Trump's ignorance about their openly-promoted extreme ideology and alleged violent, coercive personal conduct. That ideology, BTW if you take all their extreme positions together, adds up to Accelerationism. As with Mr DeSantis, an overwhelming number of Mr Trump's ordinary supporters would be appalled if they knew and understood that this is FBI-speak for "Satanism!"
Here is a link to a Wikipedia article about the main Accelerationist (dis)organisation for adults:
And below is a link to a Wikipedia article for the youth/online wing "764", largely based in Texas. Texas seems to be where the money for extreme ideology comes from in many cases.
Now, a lot of people have interpreted President Trump's determination to give liberal demons such as Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu the benefit of the doubt as unconditional support! Indeed, both Putin and Netanyahu themselves were so convinced that they "owned" Trump that they started to openly play him for a fool by blandly asserting things which he knew to be untrue ("there are no starving children in Gaza" for example). Playing Trump for a fool is a grave miscalculation born of arrogance and if there's anyone else on the planet as arrogant as Putin and Netanyahu, Andrew Tate is it! And, yes, by using his supporters within the Trump Administration to further his career, Andrew Tate is also playing Trump for a fool.
If the petition, above, generates any publicity at all, and if people sign it, it will, then sooner or later the truth will penetrate Trump's information bubble and he will know that not only Andrew Tate, but people in his administration that he trusted to keep him informed, have been playing him towards an end that most of his supporters will loathe.
A supplementary or follow-on petition might usefully address President Trump directly and ask him to require FBI agents with direct experience of investigating Accelerationist terrorism act as lead agents in a re-evaluation of what the US Federal Government and its law enforcement and intelligence agencies thinks of the Tate Brothers, their online output and the likely and intended outcomes of the lifestyle choices they are promoting so vigorously on a global scale.
Neither of these are
going to please either the conspiracy theorists, or those diehards
insisting that they have seen (or been told about) dozens of items of
undisclosed evidence offering cast-iron proof that Barry George
really was guilty and his supporters deluded or wicked.
However, Medawar has
taken and interest in the case from when he first heard about Jill
Dando’s murder, on the Easter Monday in 1999 when it happened,
right up today. In all that time, they are the only two theories that
Medawar has heard of which are supported by any information he has
come across by his own efforts rather than having it shouted at him
by one of the warring factions or another. Both theories have been
discarded, one of them officially disparaged and the other simply
vanished as soon as it appeared and has never, ever, been mentioned
since, by any of the parties to the case or any of the conspiracy
theorists who have fed off the case for a quarter of a century. The
two theories are not mutually exclusive either, but BOTH of them
proving to be correct does open a Pandora’s box of motives based on
Accelerationist ideology. There appears to have been a policy
decision not to tell the general public about the Accelerationists,
which is a pity because it would help the public to understand why,
much more recently, Daniel Clarke, Nicolas Prosper and Axel
Rudakubana (to name but three) did what they did. Either one of these
theories could be found to be true without opening that Pandora’s
box, so here goes:
“Some sort of link
between Jill’s murder and the abduction and presumed murder of her
fellow bright, cheerful blonde, blue-eyed TV News presenter Jodi
Huisentruit in Iowa, in June 1995.”
This was one of the
first ideas to be hurriedly discarded and we were told that there was
no possible link, and in any case the two crimes were on different
continents. (As if the airliner had never been invented, really.
Medawar fully accepts the official Metropolitan Police version to be
credible and true and now believes that he must have once walked to
Abu Dhabi and back in a single weekend, and that he has swam to and
from Guernsey and the IoM several times over the years.)
There is no link
known to Medawar, other than that both broadcasters and journalists
would have reported on the still-unsolved abduction and murder of a
young mother from Iowa (where Jodi spent most of her career) near
Bristol (the part of the world where Jill’s career began) just as
Jill was transitioning from being a newspaper reporter to a news
presenter on local radio and local television, also in South West
England. It is hard to see how those investigating Jill’s murder
were able to state, with such commanding authority, that there was no
link, when those investigating Jodi’s death haven’t seen any
evidence that enables them to rule out links between her abduction
and other cases (and there seem to be quite a lot of these, in fact.)
“Jill confided in
a close female colleague that a young female journalist she had
mentored at the BBC, had moved to Florida and then to Texas, where she had
fallen afoul of a group of well-connected orthopaedic surgeons over a
badly botched operation on her hand. Ignoring threats of serious
retribution if she want to law, Jill’s protegeé went ahead and
filed a civil lawsuit (in Austin, as it turns out) and was rammed off
the road as she drove to court to formally commence her claim, This
hit and run collision put her in a coma, leaving Jill as the only
person still expressing any interest in the case. The lawsuit was of
course never formally opened.”
This was the first
theory which Medawar ever saw in print (and it was the only theory (it's more of an observation in a way) he
has ever seen about Jill’s murder which is both highly specific and totally coherent). Apparently triggered by the appearance of a senior male
colleague of Jill’s on Newsnight on the day of Jill's murder, to state
very firmly for the benefit of the police, public and especially BBC
colleagues, that Jill’s death was not a professional killing,
Jill’s female colleague, who seems to have been a lot closer to Jill
than the male authority figure ever was, wrote a good and fairly
detailed article which Medawar read in one of the broadsheets the
weekend following the murder. Because it was so clear, coherent and
specific, Medawar foolishly expect this to be the start of a lengthy
investigation by both police and press and there would be much more
to come. To his eternal regret, he managed not to keep the article,
but it was probably the Times on the Saturday, or the Sunday Times.
It might just have been the Telegraph but that’s doubtful, and
there’s no way The Guardian or Observer would have given space to a
BBC employee contradicting the BBC’s official line.
This theory was not
officially discounted, debunked or acknowledged in any way. It simply
vanished without trace and has never been mentioned since. Medawar
knows nothing about the fate of the lady who wrote the article, but
it is pretty clear that any BBC employee who doubts the guilt of
Barry George is an unperson. Perhaps she, too, is in a coma and on
life support somewhere?
Accelerationists
and why they hate
and murder “Nazerenes” a hate-speech term for caring Christian
young women who try to help victims of crime or malpractice:
Here is a link to an
article on Wikipedia; let’s see how long that link lasts, shall
we?
It is very strange that this group has never made the front pages, but although it apparently started in Staffordshire and The Fens, the youth wing "764" is based in Texas (see above) and there are a number of politicians in that state who seem to lean towards Acclerationism and O9A seem to have as much money as they actually need, which isn't true of many political movements funded solely from within the UK.
It would be nice to firmly believe, regardless of the two theories mentioned above, that the Accelerationists don't actually exist, but that would be flying in the face of the evidence. The Home Office does seem prepared to fly in the face of a lot of evidence at times.
“How do
Professional Hitmen Know so Much About Their Victims?”
In truth, “killers for hire” (the correct legal term in England
and Wales) don’t necessarily need to know very much at all, but
their need for some reliable information, often in very small key
snippets, is one of several reasons why their relationship with
organised crime is both intimate and somewhat at arm’s length, like
bi-curious schoolgirls really. The killer needs to know who the
customer wants killed and the customer needs to know (or specify
within fairly broad limits) when and where he cannot afford to be.
There’s a certain amount of danger in the killer and customer even
knowing who the other is and that’s another reason why organised
crime is there for them both. And then there is the money: the killer
benefits from having a third party pay his fee by a route the
customer does not know and the customer does actually benefit by that
fee being a different amount (perhaps a very different amount) from
what he has paid out. The killer won’t stand for his fee being
shaved merely to camouflage it, but it is acceptable for organised
crime to deduct monies for tasks which the killer is better off not
doing for himself, and gathering necessary information on the target
and their movements is something the killer cannot do at all safely
in most cases.
But, even more importantly, organised crime is Organised with a
capital “O” for a reason and information is, and always has been,
its primary commodity. More valuable than rubies precisely because
information can always be smuggled, and in many cases it can be
obtained without much effort and without breaking any laws. Indeed,
the structure of organised crime has evolved to harvest information
as a side-hustle to every other hustle. So, there’s a
good chance that any competent organised crime gang will already
know much, perhaps all, of the things which the killer would
otherwise have to take risks to find out. There’s also a risk that
if the customer passes on all the information, perhaps
even privileged information, that they have, the killing itself will
acquire a signature which points back to them! (That’s what the
murders of Barry and Honey Sherman look like to Medawar, BTW.) This
is why an experienced killer for hire might improvise around a
dataset which a semi-professional killer would find inadequate. And
semi-professionals do exist: they are often quite well off without
killing people and it’s more like a self-funding hobby for them.
Sometimes they are former military personnel who want to feel they
are still “professional” and “in the game” but there are a
lot of military instincts they will need to suppress to get away with
it for any length of time, and always building a “proper” dataset
is one of them!
In effect, organised crime can launder the killer’s fee in the same
action as it launders the information he needs, supplying him only
with facts he can use but which can’t be traced back to any
particular source. And within the hierarchy, information, like money,
generally flows upwards. Organised crime is a pyramid with a very
broad base and at the bottom are people who are not “members” of
any gang, but who will take the precaution of sounding out someone
who is a member about anything “big” they might be planning, just
in case it’s something the gang wants to tax, or even forbid. Some
of the people at the bottom of the pyramid commit no crime other than
talking about their lawful work and their clients. They might be the
handymen and gardeners, even the dustmen and postmen, local
shopkeepers. They definitely will include mini-cab and
courier van drivers! There will be policemen and other officials,
too, but their information runs the risk of being traceable and all
public servants will come under routine scrutiny from time to time.
And the people who decide what information to sell and how much it
will cost, will be much higher up the pyramid than the source. They
will look to their own security first, the customer’s and killer’s
needs second and then the devil takes the hindmost.
This all adds up to any detectable dataset building on a murder
victim being a signature of the semi-professional, and should
organised crime have a commission where such a thing is actually
necessary, the really smart thing to do would be to pass the job on
to the semi-professionals and save their actual professionals for
less amateurish capers.
So, given all that, the question really is: “how might a
semi-professional murder for hire gang, perhaps including or advised
by ex-military or US Federal Agents, go about building a dataset on a
target?”
Below this article is an embedded video by the YouTuber, former US
Army soldier and SIGINT specialist, Ryan McBeth, in which he uses the
public’s prurient interest in the Jeffery Epstein scandal to
enlighten us as to how Human Intelligence (or “human engineering”)
techniques might be used to harvest even quite specific intelligence
and, in particular, something he calls “Elicitation.” Unlike
blackmail, bugging and torture, elicitation is not illicit and this
makes it extra-useful for those seeking to get persons close to a
target to volunteer the information needed to kill that
target. Had those persons been the subject of coercion or illegal
hacking, they would have a “victim card” to play that might
embolden them to come forward and come clean once the worst has
happened and someone has been murdered. Elicitation is the process of
approaching and cultivating a friendly, supportive relationship with
a “person of usefulness” to tease out, very gently and with no
pressure at all, information about an object, subject or person of
interest.
(By explaining that’s all Epstein needed to do in order to fulfill his operational goals, Mr McBeth indirectly but convincingly implies
that the mansion full of hot and cold running fourteen year-olds was
either unnecessary or simply something that Epstein’s guests would
have expected to be available more or less anywhere they went
to relax! Either way, the sexual exploitation was
gratuitous.)
There are all sorts of ways a person of usefulness (friend, neighbour
or colleague to the target) might be approached; either through their
professional or personal life. They might find a distant or
previously-unknown relative getting in touch (and this might not even
be a scam because any of us might connect to someone known to a
criminal gang at one remove or another) or they might be asked to
mentor a junior colleague. If the person of usefulness were a junior,
they might find someone gratifyingly senior mentoring them! A new
face might turn up at a hobby-related club which the person of
usefulness attends.
If the person of usefulness has a strong professional profile, they
might be invited to join all sorts of prestigious bodies (perhaps as
an Honorary Fellow of a Royal College outside their own field?) and
the people they meet there would be so irreproachable as to be
trusted with almost any information that really should not have been
divulged.
In such a case, whereby the person of usefulness finds it unthinkable
that they might have been, or even must have been the
source of the information used to kill someone close to them, they
will seek mental and emotional refuge in not thinking
the thought, and indeed in promoting some alternative theory, up to
and beyond the point where that theory becomes wholly ridiculous to
objective and rational observers, especially their junior colleagues
who will be much better at smelling a rat than a senior colleague’s
peers.
And rather than being a willing and useful witness in any murder
investigation, the person of usefulness would have a strong
subconscious compulsion, or even a conscious determination, to
misdirect that investigation. Sooner or later, such compulsion must
surely become so obvious that even the most charitable investigators
will be unable to ignore it.
Knowing that one has been the target of effective human engineering can be as a bad as a physical assault, perhaps worse. But there could be cases where that knowledge, publicly-aired, might be a fitting punishment for arrogance.
There have been a
few assassinations in Europe, where the victim has been shot with a
single round of .380” Auto aka 9mm Browning short ammunition.
Because European police and judges aren’t always obliged to publicise
technical details of evidence, it’s difficult to say just how many
times this has happened, but it’s happened more than two or three
times and in more than one country. In one case, four Serbia-linked
suspects were convicted and then acquitted at appeal, thus muddying
the waters to the advantage of more or less everyone except the
law-abiding public.
Generally, the
recovered bullet has not been engraved by rifling, so it is assumed
(especially where that assumption is convenient) that a “low
quality” improvised smooth-bore gun “which no professional hitman
would ever touch” has been used, such as a blank-firing replica
bored out to fire live ammunition. (One snag with that assumption is
that most of the replicas of “9mm” guns are carefully designed to
fire only 8mm blanks and NONE of the internal components is of a
strength or diameter allowing a simple boring-out job to work. Even
if not tampered with, 8mm blank-firers tend to break before the user
has got through the 50-round tin of blanks which comes with the gun.
The metal is very poor and this is not an accident, but a policy on
the part of the manufacturer.) That convenient assumption may have
compromised more than one investigation leading to at least one
miscarriage of justice.
Not infrequently
there are indentations around the mouth of the spent cartridge case,
for which there are several possible explanations, the convenient one
again being a low-quality improvised weapon and home-made ammunition
consistent with a “lone lunatic” offender. The trouble with that
one is that the ammunition is NOT home-made but commercial and of
good quality and the cartridge case, bullet, priming cap and as far
as it can be ascertained, the powder charge, have not in fact been
altered or swapped. The indentations prove only that the crimp was
made tighter at some point: it is impossible to say if the bullet was
actually “pulled” and replaced, or if the user simply wanted the
crimp to be tighter for some specific technical reason. (Again,
inconvenient because it would rule out a lone lunatic offender. If
the multiple jurisdictions involved didn’t do that already.)
The reason why it is
possible to fire .380” ACP ammunition, also known as 9mm Browning
short or 9x17mm in a standard Soviet service pistol chambered for the
standard Soviet 9x18mm round (widely known as 9mm Makarov) has to do
with the latter being an indirect development of the former, via the
Luftwaffe’s wartime “9mm Ultra” project which largely fell into
Soviet hands. However, as the video embedded will prove should the
reader be patient with it, this mismatch of ammunition works much
better than one would expect. It certainly functions and “feeds”
a lot better than the video-maker appears to have anticipated!
There are reasons
why this sort of stunt might not work for any two slightly
dissimilar cartridges and might even be dangerous, but in this
instance it DOES work and with quite decent
reliability. None of the technical issues pose a significant risk of
damage to the gun within the number of rounds fired in the video
demonstration, nor any danger to the shooter. The most interesting of
the technical issues explains why this mismatch of ammunition is safe
enough (but only this way round: if it proved possible to fire a 9mm
“Makarov” round in pistol (such as a Colt 1903 pocket model)
chambered for the .380” ACP it would be dangerous because not only
is the 9mm Makarov loaded with a stronger powder charge than the
.380” ACP, it also has a slightly larger diameter bullet, which
would cause excessive breech pressures by itself even if the powder
charge were identical. But there’s much more to it than that -and
this really is important enough to be worth the bother of
understanding it! It lies in the reason for the bullet diameter being
changed in the first place:
The Bolshevik
regime, which brought the Soviet Union into being, inherited not only
an archaic system of measurements from Czarist Russia, but also what
appeared to be an irrational and inconsistent system of definitions.
So, not only were metric designations the new order of the day, there
was a relatively simple set of rules about how one defined certain
things, including calibre. So, a Soviet “9mm” designation would
define a cartridge designed to be fired through a barrel with a bore
diameter (measured across the lands rather than between two
opposing rifling grooves) of exactly 9mm.
The .380” ACP aka
“9mm Browning Short” by contrast was defined by having a bullet
of (more or less) exactly 9mm diameter. But in a modern rifled
firearm with “inside lubricated” bullets, the bullet has to be
made to fit the groove diameter of the barrel and not
the bore (or land) diameter. This means that when the bullet is
forced into the bore by the ignition of the powder, it really does
have to be forced and this “engraves” the rifling into the
bullet, which gives it enough grip to make it spin and leaves a
permanent record of the rifling on the bullet, as long as it’s not
destroyed on impact with tough materials such as metal or brick.
Because the
difference in diameters comes about by a swap of what dimension is
defining the calibre, a rifled 9mm Makarov barrel is
closely equivalent to a smooth-bore barrel actually intended to fire
.380” ACP ammunition. Now, no smooth-bore barrel is ever really
ideal for a bullet that needs to spin to remain stable in flight, but
when the bullet isn’t going to travel very far and accuracy is a
moot point, this doesn’t matter all that much.
It does matter to
some extent, though, and at the end of the video below the
video-creator explains why: the bullet is designed to be effective by
hitting nose-on and staying nose-on. Evidence to support what he
claims lies in the fact that Greener’s .38” Calibre Humane
Killer, designed to be fired (by hitting the back of the firing pin
with a separate hammer that came with the gun) with the barrel in
hard contact with a horse’s head, actually has about 1&1/2
inches of rifled barrel! There’s no possible accuracy issue with a
humane killer, but it had rifling non-the-less.
The one way in which
the Makarov barrel differs from a smoothbore barrel of appropriate
diameter, is that the bullet does not seal the rifling grooves and
enough propellent gas leaks past the .380” ACP bullet to reduce the
power of that bullet below what it achieves in a similar gun with a
barrel of the same length as the Makarov, but properly rifled and
dimensioned for the .380” ACP. Again, this is something which is
demonstrated in the video. Along with miserable accuracy at any
useful combat range using .380” ACP in a Makarov.
And there is an
advantage to that reduction in power, even when using unmodified
commercial .380” ACP ammunition, if the .380” ACP round
will only be fired in hard contact with the target, like a humane
killer. Firing a gun with the muzzle hard up against
something solid can cause excess back-pressure, and for this reason
Greeners offered, and their customers purchased, special .38”
cartridges for its humane killer, even though as a fairly short,
rimmed .38” round it might seem that almost any .38” revolver
cartridge that was short enough to fit would do.
If a hitman’s plot
to take his victim by surprise and dispatch them with a single shot
in hard contact (to suppress noise, flash etc. and to make sure the
victim died) went wrong, a Makarov pistol loaded with .380” ACP
bullets that were hopelessly unstable at a distance, wouldn’t win
him any gunfights with police or unexpected bodyguards. But a
completely unmodified, standard Makarov service pistols with a
magazine of eight standard 9mm Makarov rounds would be a powerful
asset in expert hands, and all the hitman would need to do is ensure
that the first round fired would be a .380” ACP.
By yet another
fortunate turn of events, the majority of 9mm Makarov cartridges have
a lacquered steel cartridge case, whilst there are no known sources
of steel-cased .380” ACP rounds, most of which have traditional
brass or perhaps cupro-nickel cartridge case, both quite different in
appearance to lacquered steel. The hitman would single-load a (shiny)
.380” ACP round into the chamber, either directly or by putting in
a magazine with just one round in, into the gun and working the
slide. He would then “decock” the gun and on the Makarov this is
accomplished simply by applying the safety catch. All he need do then
is put in a full magazine of (dull, off-grey) 9mm Makarov rounds and
it’s good to go.
The Makarov pistol
has a double/single-action trigger where, if the gun is not already
cocked by working the slide or a previous round being fired, pulling
the trigger over a fairly long distance against quite heavy
resistance cocks the hammer and fires whatever round is in the
chamber. Subsequent shots require only a shorter pull against less
resistance, which makes for best accuracy and allows a marksman to
maintain a comfortable hold on the gun.
The downside is that
the first shot, if fired by the double-action trigger, is inherently
less accurate. That’s not an issue if the first shot is fired in
hard contact with the victim’s head, of course. If all goes to
plan, the follow-up shots will not be needed and since the gun
decocks itself when the safety catch is used, there’s no need to
unload the weapon before pocketing it, but letting the fumes clear
from the barrel for a moment or two might stop the gun giving itself
away by the smell. Witnesses might well see a man leave the scene
with something still in his hand, this would go into a pocket or a
bum-bag once it had time to stop smoking.
If things do go
wrong, then the hitman has eight very effective shots with which to
solve any immediate problems and there’s nothing to stop him
reloading if he has a spare magazine.
Now, one of the
things which might worry a hitman who spends a lot of time listening
to received wisdom, is that by firing a cartridge in a barrel which
offers little initial resistance to the bullet’s travel, he’d be
taking a risk on the bullet moving so easily that the pressure
necessary to fully-ignite the gunpowder is not achieved and the
bullet then barely clears the muzzle, followed by a cloud of unburnt powder grains. This is known as a “blooper” and it is another
“obvious problem” which conspicuously fails to occur in the video
demonstration. But a perfectionist with time on his hands might just
try to tighten up the crimp on a few .380” ACP rounds just to be
sure. That’s not the only possible explanation for the indentations
around the fired cartridge case mouth and Medawar has toyed with
several of them over the years, but it’s as good as any and, unlike
all the others, it’s really quite specific to the .380” ACP
ammunition being used in a completely unmodified Makarov service
pistol which would be an asset to an expert in any unplanned fight
following a carefully-planned hit.
Since there is a quantifiable advantage to using this methodology,
and the means to implement it as widespread as a standard service
pistol made by the million, there is no actual necessity for different
crimes committed by such a method to have anything in common other
than the method. Even any perceived link to Serbia might be purely
logistical, in that both standard Makarov-type pistols and ammunition
were made there, with commercial .380” ACP ammunition being widely
available throughout Western Europe as it works in an even larger
number of both service and commercial pistols which have been in
production, which still continues, since 1903. Any belief that the
exact same gun, or even the exact same hitman, might be involved in
multiple crimes may prove to be unfounded, unless the evidence is
personalised in some way, such the probably-unnecessary indentations
around the mouth of the spent cartridge.
Here is the embedded video, by “8mm Mauser Guy” and it’s
followed by a few of Medawar’s observations on what’s going
on. The strength of this video, incidentally, is that it was meant
just as a homage to the popular firearms expert Paul Harrell, who
went before us a little while after the video was published. This
means that whilst it echoes all of Mr Harrell’s quirks and
mannerisms, it also echoes his determination to find out what
actually happens rather than attempting to prove or disprove any
particular theory, or any particular legal case.
The (non-live) link:
https://youtu.be/9_wJsE0rwlk?si=dMb61BgVxpxVKUPd
Observations on what the video's findings
.380 ACP in 9mm Makarov pistol: this WORKS (surprisingly well,
really); velocities are lower than one might expect from a proper
.380" ACP barrel the same length, as the bullet does not seal
the rifling grooves though it pretty much seals the bore. The
velocities are already subsonic and the .380" aka 9mx17mm
ammunition would need no modification to achieve this, but that
doesn't mean that it wouldn't be modified, either superfluously or
for some technical reason known only to the person who did it.
Nor does it engage the rifling, so bullets may tumble after only a
few feet and will NOT be engraved with rifling marks.
The ejected cartridge cases bulge only SOME of the time: this may
depend on how they sit in the 0.8mm longer and 0.2mm wider chamber at
the moment of firing. The above video shows two such cases being
picked out out of approximately thirty fired.
(The true length of the .380" ACP cartridge case is 17.3mm and that of the 9mm Makarov 18.1mm)
Postscript
Medawar is confident that the Home Office would greatly prefer it if Michelle Diskin and/or her lawyers would refrain from reading this article or watching the video.
A follow-up article, coming soon, will explain how hitmen use human engineering, just like hackers do, in order to find out things "which a professional hitman (backed up an organised crime gang) could not possibly have known about the target's habits and whereabouts." That may discommode a national broadcaster more than the Home Office, should Ms Diskin or her lawyers be so perverse as to take an interest.
The article after that may ruffle feathers quite widely.
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