Comments by "Spring Bloom" (@springbloom5940) on "ABC News" channel.

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  6. A couple points about the weapon: 1) it is home manufactured and therefore its entirely possible there are more than one. The barrel, which is what marks the bullet, costs less than $100 and can be replaced in seconds. He certainly had means to have several weapons and or spare barrels. As a home manufacture from aftermarket parts, theres no way to tell if its the original barrel or how many times it's been replaced. 2) the ammunition recovered with the weapon is FMJ(Full Metal Jacket) which is a solid non-expanding bullet that will go right through and continue traveling for a significant distance. This could make it very difficult to recover the bullets and then spatially link them to the crime scene; they could be a block away across the street, or embedded in a parked vehicle that drove away to who knows where. Whether that was the purpose of the ammunition choice or he just didn't know any better, at this point Id believe either. However, if the ammunition recovered with the weapon is the same as the live rounds that were left at the scene, those can be fairly conclusively matched. If the weapon has certain 'quirks', it will uniquely mark the spent casings. A malfunctioning weapon can produce unique identifiable markings. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the ammunition recovered with the weapon had the writing on it. None of which is conclusive in isolation, but its all cumulative. No matter though, because just Pennsylvania and the Federal Gvt have enough indefensible charges against him to put him away for a significant part of a lifetime; he was caught in possession of an illegally concealed, illegal weapon, an unregistered sound suppressor and multiple forged ID, even presenting one to the police, which directly places him in the vicinity of the NYC crime. Whether or not they match the bullets to the weapon, hes done. Im skeptical hes going to like his new free healthcare plan better than his old one.
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