Posted March 24, 2016 4:12 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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The headline in the Tennessean is very specific Rare, expensive gun used in 2015 Hermitage slaying, police say.

Hermitage Precinct detectives believe the person who fatally shot a 24-year-old man last summer used an uncommon, expensive handgun, according to new information released Friday by Metro police.

Armondo Smoot was gunned down outside a friend’s home in the 4600 block of Forest Ridge Drive during the early morning hours of Aug. 31, and police say evidence at the scene shows that the weapon fired was a 5.7×28 millimeter semiautomatic pistol manufactured by FNH — known as an FN Five-seven.

This type of ammunition is fired only from a limited number of guns, Metro police said. The Five-seveN retails for about $1,200, police said.

The claim that a FN Five-seveN was used is directly tied to the use of 5.7x28mm ammunition by the murder weapon, as evidenced by the bullets recovered from the victim and expended cartridges recovered at the crime scene. They do NOT have a recovered weapon.

They’re guessing, and the hole in that theory, of course, is that the 5.7×28 isn’t nearly as rare or as exclusively-chambered as the police suggest.

The 5.7×28 is chambered in the Five-seveN and the <a class="colorbox" …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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