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From: decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!rsl@uunet.UU.NET (Roy Stuart Levin)
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Subject: Re: automatic .....22 magnums
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Date: 25 May 91 05:19:16 GMT
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I've read about .22 LR as an assassins' weapon in mob hits, because they mob
usually sets up its victims through friends and acquaintances so the hit doesnt
know what's coming and then a .22 fired into the back of the head can do the
job and it cannot really be heard outside an apartment or house.  That's to 
say the weapon is of use for assassinations because it is so quiet, rather
than its power.  I found out that it is true that you really can't hear it
too much outside an apartment.  In my old drinking days (years ago in college)
I used to shoot holes in my wall for sport in my ramshackle apartment down
in Florida.  The plaster got blown about but the bullets never penetrated the
apartment to hurt anybody and nobody ever complained about the noise.  Of
course Miami was always a pretty noisy place on a Friday or Saturday night.
The weapon's report is like the sound of you dropping a metal pot on the floor
of your kitchen or something on that order.  Now a .22 rimfire magnum, that
would be a different story.  A lot more power but too noisy for city apartment
hits.  If you're not worried about noise you might as well step up to at least
a .38spcl.  For an interesting professional's viewpoint try reading a book
called "JOEY: The story of a Mafia hit man" or something like that.  It was
by a real life killer nicknamed "Joey Muscles" who was ultimately blown away
in NYC after he published his little autobiographical book.  I happened to 
see him interviewed (his face in the dark and voice disguised of course) on
the old Tom Snyder show on late night TV while he was publicizing his book.
It was quite interesting.  Joey liked to walk up behind wiseguys and "hit them
in the back of the head" with a .38 spcl. at close range.  I think he credited
himself with over 30 personal hits.