Post your favorite improvised doohickeys (incl. vehicles)

https://suppo.fi/post/2910863

I had no idea the Shinzo Abe thing was a doohickey. I take it that’s not a regular bullet? How did it work?

I went digging and found this fairly detailed article on it armamentresearch.com/craft-produced-firearm-used-…

The dude had more doohickeys too! This picture of a cop holding one looks cyberpunk as fuck:

Craft-produced firearm used to assassinate Shinzo Abe - Armament Research Services (ARES)

N.R Jenzen-Jones & Patrick Senft Around 1130 hrs local time on 8 July 2022, former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe (Abe Shinzō; 安倍 晋三), was shot in Nara, Japan, with a craft-produced (‘privately made’) firearm. Videos of the shooting suggest that the assailant was within a few metres of the former Prime Minister when

Armament Research Services (ARES) - Armament Research Services is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy offering arms & munitions research/analysis services.
Looks like a lego guy at first.

Black powder, model rocket igniters, and shot pellets shoved into a piece of threaded pipe that’s capped on one end. You can build one of these in less than 30 minutes.

Hardest thing to get in Japan would probably be the black powder and it’s completely possible to manufacture that yourself. Everything else comes from the plumbing aisle of a DIY store and a model rocket shop.