From Informativos Telecinco, a Spanish TV Channel, via Asociación Nacional del Arma de España – ANARMA. The translation is:
This is the rifle with which Manuel Murillo Sánchez wanted to kill the president
Apparently the Spanish Media and politicians had the arrested guy categorized as a sniper ready to kill the President from miles away with a Skorpion machine pistol.
Not even Bob Lee Swagger could pull that one off.
PS: The Skorpion is still on my wanted list. I just like the looks of the useless little thing. Well, if it goes bang, it is not useless.
UPDATE: Link to the alleged arsenal of the alleged frustrated sniper.
The vz.61 is a fine little gun. Weak calibre but it is pretty precise.
But only fun in fully automatic 😀
Skorpion is cute, I’m still an MP5 fan, personally.
There’s some interesting stuff in his “arsenal.” Looks as if there’s a competition pellet gun and a PCP pellet gun made out of plumbing components.
I get a little tired with the meme that anyone who shoots people from more than 50 yards away, must be a military trained “Sniper” and use some kind of magic, super duper rifle with laser powered telescopic sights. Obviously they have never seen what a hunter can do with on old 03A3 with iron sights at 200 or so yards.
Is that…. a potato cannon?